The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum boasts Art Deco style architecture and a lush garden.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum opened the mansion built as a museum of Asaka Palace in 1933 as an art museum. It was used at a temporary period after World War II, the Foreign Minister's Official Residence, the National Guest House, etc. In October 1983, it opened as an art museum. Its buildings were added with the unique feeling of Japan of the Imperial Household dormitory on the interior and exterior of the Art Deco style which is European decorative art.
There is also the appearance of Mari Fujiwara (cellist)
In 1959 Mari entered the Toho Gakuen 'Music School for Children', and after that she studied under Hideo Saito for 15 years. In 1971 she won first prize and a grand prize in the 40th Japan Music Competition and Cello division. After that she studied under Fluniet and Lostropovich. Mari won the second prize at the 6th Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1978. Since then, she has worked nationally and internationally as a representative of Japan. Her new recording of JS Bach unaccompanied cello suite released from Naxos Japan in October 2014 (J. S. Bach 6 Suites a Violoncello solo senza Basso) has been selected as a recordboard art magazine special selection board, and it gets very popular.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (東京都庭園美術館 Tōkyō-to Teien Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan.
The museum is located in Minato ward, just east of Meguro Station. The Art Deco building, completed in 1933, has interiors designed by Henri Rapin and features decorative glass work by René Lalique.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum building was previously the residence of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko and his family from 1933 to 1947. The prince, who studied at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in France, and travelled to the United States in 1925, was greatly enamored of the Art Deco movement. On his return to Japan he commissioned the construction of his own private residence in this style. Although many of the interiors were designed according to plans submitted by Henri Rapin, the main architect of the building itself is credited as Gondo Yukichi of the Works Bureau of the Imperial Household Ministry.
After World War II the building served as the official residence of the Prime Minister (1947–50), and as a State Guest House (1950–74). The residence was first opened to the public as a museum in 1983. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefectural government. Teien means Japanese garden, and the museum is so named because the building is surrounded by a garden and sculptures.
After undergoing extensive renovation in 2013, the museum was re-opened in November 2014. The new museum annex, designed in collaboration with Hiroshi Sugimoto includes modern exhibition spaces, a café and museum shop.
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