Namikawa Cloisonne Museum of Kyoto — Attraction in Kyoto

A lovely small museum in the former home and workshop of one of Japan's great masters of cloissoné. Features a selection of superb, intricately decorated pieces plus exhibits explaining the design and creation processes. The property features a lush garden with a koi pond, so your visit is complemented by the sound of flowing water. This is also a great opportunity to see a traditional Japanese home. I found the kitchen very interesting. It's in the midst of an older neighbourhood, which is interesting to walk around, and it's not far from the Heian Shrine. This is a short visit -- could be an "appetizer" for one of the larger cultural sites nearby. Also, cloissoné was a priority for me, so this museum hit the spot -- but know that it's very much geared to lovers of the...

You probably need to be pretty into traditional Japanese architecture or cloisonné to really feel like the 800 yen entrance fee is worth it, but I adore both, and speak Japanese, so I loved it. A couple rooms of the old house are now small gallery spaces of the [breathtaking, exquisite, amazing] cloisonné work, a little on how it's made, and you can walk through most of the garden, which is amazing (look at the pictures of the corner of the house cantilevered out over the pond!) and you can see the shoin style room [decorated with chairs in a super Taisho sort of way!] and sit in the 8-mat room that...

並河靖之七宝記念館 この記念館は、七宝作家で明治二十九年（1896年）に帝室技芸員となった並河靖之 （1845～1927年）が、職住一体として構えた旧邸宅と工房跡である。 館内には、並河靖之制作の数多くの七宝作品や、海外の来訪者の為に鴨居を高くしてガラス障子を引き回した開放的な主屋、旧工房、旧窯場が残されている。また庭園は、七代目小川治兵衛（植治）の初期の作庭で、琵琶湖疎水を園池に引き入れている。 建物は国登録有形文化財、京都市指定歴史的意匠建造物、庭園は京都市指定名勝庭園の指定を受け、明治期の住宅の佇まいを良好に残す京都の近代文化遺産のひとつである。

財団法人　並河靖之有線七宝記念財団 並河靖之七宝記念館 （現地説明版より） Namikawa Yasuyuki Shippo Memorial Museum This museum is the former residence and studio of Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927), a cloisonné artist who became an Imperial Household Artist in 1896.

Inside the museum, you can see many cloisonné works by Namikawa Yasuyuki, as well as the open main house with high lintels and glass screens for overseas visitors, the former studio, and the former kiln. The garden was designed early on by Ogawa Jihei VII (Ueji), and draws the Lake Biwa Canal into the garden pond.

The building is a nationally registered tangible cultural property, a historically designed building designated by Kyoto City, and the garden is a Kyoto City designated garden of scenic beauty. It is one of Kyoto's modern cultural heritage sites, and retains the appearance of a Meiji-era house in good condition.

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Namikawa Yasuyuki Cloisonné Memorial Museum (From the on-site...