is a museum of Asian art in Nara, Nara.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Museums" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673.
The museum was established in 1960Martin, John et al. (1993). Nara: a Cultural Guide to Japan's Ancient Capital, p. 139. to preserve and display the private collection of Kintetsu Corporation (named Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. till June 27, 2003).Danilov, Victor J. (1992). A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers, p. 161.
Collection
This museum of Asian art has holdings of more than twenty thousand objects of sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, paintings, prints, textiles and calligraphy. The museum features a program of regularly changing exhibitions. The founding director in 1960 was art historian Yukio Yashiro.vaLibri: Sandro Bottecelli by Yuko Yashiro
National treasures Two national treasures in the collection are illustrative scenes from .Museum Yamatobunkakan: Nezame monogatari, scene from handscroll
See also List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings) Chinese Piling paintings
Notes
References Danilov, Victor J. (1992). A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers. New York: Greenwood Press. ; Martin, John H, and Phyllis G Martin. (1993). Nara: a Cultural Guide to Japan's Ancient Capital. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle. ;
External links
About the Museum Yamato Bunkakan