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Galleries and Outdoor Features

Exterior of the Honkan gallery, which contains Japanese art and artifacts
Honkan
Heiseikan
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The main gallery and center-
Built in 1993 – with a sleek
piece of Ueno Park was designed by courtyard, auditorium, and lounge –
Jin Watanabe. The present Honkan was this modern gallery houses pottery,
completed in 1938 in the “Imperial burial statues, and artifacts from
Crown” style of archi tecture. The the ancient world.
features are Japanese, but the building
Shiryokan
mater ials are undeniably Western. 5
The Shiryokan is a research
Toyokan
2 and information center, where
visitors can browse through archives,
Asian artworks and
archeological exhibits are housed in books, magazines, monochrome
a light, modernist build ing. Parts of and color photographs, and other
the collection may some times be materials linked to art history.
shown elsewhere within the complex.
Gallery of Horyu-ji
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Treasures
The minimalist 1999 design of
this gallery is the work of Yoshio
Taniguchi, whose overseas projects
include the ground-breaking Museum
of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.
Black Gate
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Teahouse in the museum garden A rare structure from the Edo
period, the Kuro-mon is topped with
Museum Garden
3 a heavy hip-and-gable style roof.
and Teahouses
Old roof tiles and foundation stones
The site is open to the public during are kept in the rear of the gate.
the spring cherry-blossom or fall
Azekura Sutra Store
leaf-viewing seasons. Those who are 8
in Tokyo around this time should not Buddhist sutras were once kept
pass up the chance to see the secret in stores like this one, trans ported in
pond-garden and teahouses on the 1882 from Gango-ji temple in Nara.
north side of the Honkan. Constructed of logs, the inner walls
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