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 A contemporary art gallery will open in Gujo Hachiman, a castle town famous for its pristine water and summer Gujo Odori dance, on Saturday, July 27, 2024. The gallery in a renovated townhouse features a space where classic and modern elements coexist, showcasing artists with unique identities. It will also include permanent immersive installations. Plans involve featuring emerging and mid-career artists from both Japan and abroad.

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GALLERY crossing opened in 2017 along the old Nakasendo Highway in Minokamo, Gifu. Director Misa Kuromoto defines "circulation," "wind & soil," "humanity," "cultivation," and "voyage" as the five concepts that make up the gallery. In recent years, the gallery has paid particular attention to artists who possess insights into the relationship between nature and humans, sensibilities attuned to invisible existence and presence, and oriental aesthetics as outlined in Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's "In Praise of Shadows." Reflecting on works that pose universal questions that transcend time and space against the backdrop of individual roots, traditions, history, and culture will encourage individual growth and a broader understanding of our increasingly diverse world.

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Our museum exhibits Mino wares with the history of over 1300 years, which include Setoguro, Kizeto,Shino and Oribe wares of Momoyama period, ceramic works of the Living National Treasures and other modern ceramic artists, and other potters in various periods. Holding 4~5 exhibitions per year, the museum is introducing depthful world of ceramics in various ways. Visitors can also enjoy tea ceremonies using tea bowls made by the Living National Treasures and other ceramic artist.
Gifu Prefecture Ceramic Museum was transfered to Tajimi City, and was reopened as Mino Ceramic Art Museum, Tajimi in 2012.

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The Gifu Collection of Modern Arts is one of the few art museums to feature the works of the artist Toko Shinoda (b. 1913). The building was constructed on the grounds of the Seki Garden Factory of Nabeya Bi-Tech Kaisha in 1992 and was awarded the Nikkei New Office Promotion Award (International Trade and Industry Minister’s Prize) in 1993. The approach to the museum features a cascade and pool, their shapes fitting harmoniously into the lush greenery of the surrounding setting.
In addition to the permanent exhibits of the works of Toko Shinoda, the museum holds special exhibitions presenting the work of up-and-coming modern artists and holds concerts and other events that contribute to the enrichment of cultural activities in the Gifu prefecture city of Seki and environs.

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At the Hiroshige Museum of Art, Ena, we would like to disseminate information to the world about the towns and culture of Ena by collecting, storing, and researching Utagawa Hiroshige's ukiyoe prints as well as displaying them to the general public. We also work on various educational activities to promote local art and culture, including the hosting of lectures regarding ukiyoe and Utagawa Hiroshige.

Together with these activities, we work toward the development of independent and proactive activities and a town of cooperation with the people utilizing the highway culture of the Nakasendo road.

At this museum we house about 1,500 pieces of art focusing on ukiyoe, hosting project exhibitions and special exhibitions throughout the year as well. We are especially proud of our "Nakasendo Rokujukyu-tsugi Nouchi" (Tanaka collection), which includes the "Nakatsugawa in the Rain". There is also a popular video corner on the 2nd floor Ukiyoe Navigation Room where you can try overprinting and learn about the process of making ukiyoe.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu opened on November 3, 1982 in the suburbs of Gifu City, the capital of Gifu Prefecture. Located roughly in the center of the Japanese archipelago, the prefecture has been strongly influenced by culture from both the eastern and western parts of the country. Gifu’s rich local culture embraces a wealth of distinctive art and craft traditions passed down in local areas, including the woodcrafts of the Hida area, the handmade mulberry-bark paper of the Mino area, and the ceramics of the Tono (East Mino) area.

Gifu is also the birthplace of many artists who greatly contributed to the development of modern art in Japan, including Yamamoto Hosui (1850–1906), Kawai Gyokudo (1873–1957), Maeda Seison (1885–1977), and Kumagai Morikazu (1880–1977).

The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu is dedicated to exploring, collecting and studying artistic works in and related to Gifu, thereby enhancing public awareness of local culture and arts. The Museum also actively collects and studies works by artists from overseas and elsewhere in Japan. By exhibiting works of both local and non-local artists, the Museum seeks to cultivate citizens’ pride in their local history and culture, to promote local cultural activities, and to imbue local cultural activities with an international perspective.

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Ceramic Park Mino

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Galerie Momogusa

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Fuji Takehana Machiya Gallery

Arakawa Toyozo Museum

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Gifu Prefectural Museum

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Mino Ceramic Art Museum, Tajimi

Sekigahara Ningenmura Quotidian Museum of Art

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