{"id":54253,"date":"2019-09-02T02:12:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/?p=54253"},"modified":"2020-04-01T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T06:13:21","slug":"kenshiyonezu-otsukamuseumofart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/shikoku\/kenshiyonezu-otsukamuseumofart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Venue that Kenshi Yonezu performed at Kohaku Uta Gassen-Otsuka Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenshi Yonezu, a Japanese musician, made his live television debut on the last \u201cK\u014dhaku Uta Gassen\u201d in Heisei. He chose to perform his hit song \u201cLemon\u201d in the Otsuka Museum of Art which is in his native Tokushima. After the show, not only the performance itself received a favourable feedback, the venue of the performance also became a hot topic on the internet because of its grandness! What’s so special about the Otsuka Museum of Art?
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The Otsuka Museum of Art: the largest exhibition space in Japan
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The Otsuka Museum of Art is a \u201cCeramic board masterpiece art museum\u201d has the largest exhibition space in Japan. It was built to commemorate the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Group\u2019s 75th anniversary in Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture. If you have ever been to here before, you must be impressed by its full-size reproduction of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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More than 1,000 of the world\u2019s masterpieces that were replicated on ceramic boards displayed in the museum.\u00a0<\/span>Specifically, visitors can feel free to take pictures of those genuine paintings, and even experience those works up close.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nOver 1,000 pieces of ceramic board masterpieces<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are over 1,000 replicas of Western art masterpieces from more than 190 art museums in 26 countries worldwide in this museum. These artworks are reproduced to their original size using special techniques by Otsuka Ohmi Ceramics Co., Ltd. The ceramic reproductions can maintain the colour and shape for over 2,000 years and help to contribute like preserving the history of cultural treasures. The museum received many compliments and endorsements from Picasso\u2019s son, Miro\u2019s grandchildren and many other art museum curators. Come and visit here, you can view those famous paintings from all over the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reproduction of the Sistine Chapel ceiling <\/span>Genesis<\/span><\/i> and fresco <\/span>The Last Judgement
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\nRumor has it that over 900 million JPY had been paid for the copyright of the paintings including the Sistine Chapel ceiling \u201cGenesis\u201d and the fresco \u201cThe Last Judgement\u201d before the reproduction began. The museum replicated not just ancient murals and also modern paintings from Europe. It is just like a 3 dimensional Western Art History textbook, all you need is to visit this museum, you will be able to appreciate many of the famous works.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Otsuka Museum of Art
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Address: Fukuike-65-1 Narutocho Tosadomariura, Naruto, Tokushima 772-0053
\n<\/span>Opening hours: 9:30~17:00<\/span>
\n<\/span>Closed on Monday (If a public holiday falls on Monday, the Museum will be closed the following day)<\/span>
\n<\/span>* The museum will be closed for 5 days consecutively after the New Year<\/span><\/p>\n

Holiday in January, and will be open throughout August.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Admission: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Adults: 3,240 Yen<\/span>
\n<\/span>University students: 2,160 Yen<\/span>
\n<\/span>Elementary, Junior High School and High School students: 540 Yen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenshi Yonezu, a Japanese musician, made his live television debut on the last \u201cK\u014dhaku Uta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3881,"featured_media":54306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[1196,9000,8999,9282],"class_list":["post-54253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shikoku","category-travel","tag-art","tag-kenshiyonezu","tag-otsuka-museum","tag-tokushima-prefecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54253"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54307,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253\/revisions\/54307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}