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April 5, the 3rd day of the tour around Izumo.
We got on the shuttle bus to Adachi Museum along the Tamayukawa stream
near our hotel Konya.
It supposedly took more than 1 hour because there was a distance from Tamatsukuri
Spa south of Lake Shinjiko east to the museum in Yasugi City on the road
of Sanin.
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According to the information of Adachi Museum,
| "Set in a beautiful natural environment, Adachi Museum of Art is well known for both its superb Japanese gardens and its collection of Modern Japanese painting, comprising approximately 1,500 of the country's most highly regarded paintings produced after the Meiji period and centering on the works of Yokoyama Taikan." |
"SUKIYA LIVING MAGAZINE", the American special journal for the
Japanese gardening, has been selecting more than 900 applicant gardens
in Japan each year, and it has been choosing the garden of Adachi Museum
as "The First Garden in Japan" for ten consecutive years since
2003. Incidentally, the second is Katsura-Rikyu and the third is Tokiwa
Hotel.
It is a large garden of about 165,000 square meters in total, and consists
of the six special gardens, called Moss, Dry Landscape, Juryu-an, Pond,
White Gravel & Pine and Kikaku Falls. Each of them and their combination
are said to show you various sceneries by season and the beautiful harmony
of nature through art.
Since the garden was a "photography OK", I took pictures of each
scenery walking along the hallway in the museum.
There seemed more foreigners including around 20 people from Switzerland.
As the pamphlet mentioned, all the pictures displayed were the ones from
the Meiji period to today.
Yokoyama Taikan was the center, and among the artists were Hishida Shunso,
Uemura Shoen, Kobayashi Kokei, Kawabata Ryushi, Maeda Seiton, Hayami Gyoshu,
Ito Shinsui and Hirayama Ikuo.
A pottery hall was attached. The main works were by the two ceramic artists:
Kitayama Rosanjin and Kawai Kanjiro.
I was fascinated by the pottery of Kawai Kanjiro. It was a lucky find.
I knew the name Rosanjin well, so I felt interested in his works while
walking, and passed by at the corner of Kanjiro without any reason. And
then I suddenly looked back. My feet were naturally going back there. I
stared at his every work closely this time.
(from the pamphlet)
I was really surprised. Though they were only several works, all of them
overwhelmed me. Not only the shapes, the colors....., but also something
else behind.
Incidentally, he comes from Yasugi, this town.
This corner made me feel happy to visit Adachi Museum.
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