Tamesaburo Memorial Museum

Tamesaburo Memorial Museum is an annex of the Frukawa Art Museum.
This sukiya style main building called Ishun-tei 爲春亭 was built in 1934 as a ryotei, a high-class Japanese-style restaurant.
Furukawa Tamesaburo (1890-1993) lived here until he died in the age of 103.
There is a tranquil Japanese style garden in the image of "Nezame-no-toko寝覚めの床", a point of the Kiso River,
with five big beeches, which he loved so much, and a tea-house named Chisokuan 知足庵,
which was built in the image of the national treasure tea-house "Joan 如庵"(now in Inuyama C.)
built by Oda Urakusai, a brother of Oda Nobunaga.

Ishun-tei 爲春亭 in the evening There is "Hisago no ma"room designed with the elements that are associated with Katsura-Rikyuu in Kyoto.

Chisoku-an 知足庵 Tea-house "Chisoku" can be read "Taru o shiru" that means "know contentment", way of thinking of Zen and Taoism	The landscaping was supervised by master landscape　 artist Takayuki Inoue

-	Bamboo bush	Tobiishi
Stone bridge	Chozubachi 手水鉢	Cascade

Hours
10:00-17:00 (last entry/16:30)

Closed
Monday (if Monday is a holiday, the following day)
Year-end and New Year holidays

Admission
*The admission changes depend on the exhibition.
Adults 1000yen-
University and high school student 500yen-
Junior high school and elementary 300yen.-

Address
2-50 Ikeshita-cho, Chikusa-ku

TEL
052-763-1991

Access
Get off at Ikeshita sta. on the Higashiyama subway line.
Take exit 1. Walk 3 minutes.




Furukawa Art Museum Official web site is here

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