{"id":5900,"date":"2018-02-26T18:34:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2021-12-03T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:29:52","slug":"sumida-hokusai-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/2018\/02\/26\/sumida-hokusai-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"sumida hokusai museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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if there is one single thing that can be said to be iconic of japan, among the neon flooded nightscapes of osaka<\/i> or tokyo<\/i>, the geisha<\/i> and zen gardens of kyoto<\/i>, it must be mt. fuji<\/i>, and its most immediately recognisable representation, the ukiyo\u2011e<\/i> woodblock print , \u2018great wave off kanagawa\u2019<\/i> by the master of japanese woodblock printing, hokusai<\/b>.<\/p>

strange then, that until a couple of years ago there was no permanent museum or gallery specifically devoted to one of the capital\u2019s most renowned sons. that omission has been remedied since 2016 in the sumida<\/i> ward of tokyo, a district closely associated with the traditional side of tokyo. both the monumental tokyo edo museum<\/b>, and the great sumo<\/i> tournament venue or kokugikan<\/i> are located nearby, as is the more in-your-face tokyo skytree<\/i>. hokusai<\/b> spent most of his long and productive life in and around the sumida<\/i> area, so it is fitting that the museum should be located here although it is unlikely that the great master would recognise the area now, with its modest apartment blocks and offices.<\/p>

the architect chosen for the design of the museum was kazuyo sejima<\/i> a founding partner of the SANAA<\/b> practice. among the partnership\u2019s key works are the 21st<\/sup> century museum of contemporary art<\/i> in kanazawa<\/i> adjacent to one of japan\u2019s most beautiful gardens, kenrokuen<\/i>. in 2009, the partners were invited to build the british serpentine gallery<\/i>\u2019s annual summer pavilion in hyde park<\/i>. unlike some of the other pavilions this temporary structure of polished metal roofs mirroring the surrounding trees seemed to melt into its background. it was described by the director of the serpentine, julia peyton-jones<\/i> as \u2018strange and gorgeous\u2019.<\/p>

the sumida hokusai museum manages to achieve a striking intervention without bombast, and provides a focus for its surrounding community, as well as the increasing numbers of visitors.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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sumida hokusai museum if there is one single thing that can be said to be iconic of japan, among the neon flooded nightscapes of <i>osaka<\/i> or <i>tokyo<\/i>, the <i>geisha<\/i> and zen gardens of <i>kyoto<\/i>, it must be <i>mt. fuji<\/i>, and its most immediately recognisable representation, the <i>ukiyo\u2011e<\/i> woodblock print , <i>\u2018great wave off kanagawa\u2019<\/i> by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[195,7,22,26,382,36],"tags":[387,389,388],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-tokyo","category-places","category-design","category-japan-asia","category-architecture","tag-hokusai","tag-shitamachi","tag-sumida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sumida-hokusai-2-1-1846957957-1524159783611.jpg?fit=2000%2C1335&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB5sm-1xa","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}