Okura Museum of Art

The Okura Shukokan in Tokyo's Minato ward is Japan's oldest private art museum, founded in 1917 by industrialist Okura Kihachiro and housed since then in a Chinese-pavilion-style building beside the Hotel Okura. The collection comprises about 2,500 objects of East Asian art, including three pieces designated National Treasures of Japan and numerous Important Cultural Properties - Buddha statues, Chinese bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Japanese hanging scrolls and lacquerware. After a major renovation completed in 2019, the museum is again open to the public, offering an intimate atmosphere that contrasts with Tokyo's state-run giants. The carefully landscaped small garden displays original stone sculptures from Tang-era spirit ways.