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The Miho Museum is located southeast of Kyoto, Japan, in the Shigaraki neighborhood of the city of Kōka, in Shiga Prefecture. It is also the headquarters of the Shinji Shumeikai, a new religious group founded by Mihoko Koyama.

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Miho Museum

ミホ ミュージアム
Miho Museum In Autumn
Miho Museum Show map of Shiga Prefecture Miho Museum (Japan) Show map of Japan
Established	1977
Location	300 Momoya Shigarakicho Tashiro, Koka-shi, Shiga-ken 529-1814
Coordinates	34°54′52.6″N 136°01′22.4″E
Architect	I. M. Pei
Website	Official website

History

The museum was the dream of Mihoko Koyama (after whom it is named), founder of the religious organization Shinji Shumeikai[1] which is now said to have some 300,000 members worldwide.[2] Furthermore, in the 1990s Koyama commissioned the museum to be built close to the Shumei temple in the Shiga mountains.

Collection

The Miho Museum houses Mihoko Koyama's private collection of Asian and Western antiques bought on the world market by the Shumei organisation in the years before the museum was opened in 1997. While Koyama began acquiring stoneware tea ceremony vessels as early as the 1950s, the bulk of the museum's acquisitions were made in the 1990s. There are over two thousand pieces in the permanent collection, of which approximately 250 are displayed at any one time.[3] Among the objects in the collection are more than 1,200 objects that appear to have been produced in Achaemenid Central Asia.[4] Some scholars have claimed these objects are part of the Oxus Treasure, lost shortly after its discovery in 1877 and rediscovered in Afghanistan in 1993.[5] The presence of a unique findspot for both the Miho acquisitions and the British Museum's material, however, has been challenged.[6]

Many of the items in the collection were acquired in collaboration with the art dealer Noriyoshi Horiuchi over the course of just six years,[7] and some have little or no known provenance.[8][9] In 2001 the museum acknowledged that a sixth-century statue of a Boddhisatva in its collection was the same sculpture which been stolen from a public garden in Shandong province, China, in 1994, agreeing with the Chinese government to return it in 2007.[10][11]

Highlights of the collections have been featured in traveling exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1996,[12] as well as the Kunshistorisches Museum Wien in 1999.[13]

Architecture

Mihoko Koyama and her daughter, Hiroko Koyama, commissioned the American architect I. M. Pei to design the Miho Museum. Pei's design, which he came to call Shangri-La, is executed in a hilly and forested landscape.[14] Approximately three-quarters of the 17,400 square meter building is situated underground, carved out of a rocky mountaintop.[15] The roof is a large glass and steel construction, while the exterior and interior walls and floor are made of a warm beige-colored limestone from France – the same material used by Pei in the reception hall of the Louvre. The structural engineer for this project was Leslie E. Robertson Associates.

Pei continued to make changes to the design of the galleries during construction as new pieces were acquired for the collection.[16]

Pei had earlier designed the bell tower at Misono,[17] the international headquarters and spiritual center of the Shumei organization. The bell tower can be seen from the windows of the museum.

See also

• Antiquities trade

Notes

External links

• Miho Museum
• Shumei

На других языках

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[de] Miho Museum

Das 1997 geöffnete Miho Museum befindet sich in der Nähe der Stadt Kōka in der japanischen Präfektur Shiga, nordöstlich von Kyōto. Das Museum geht zurück auf Mihoko Koyama (nach der es benannt wurde), der Erbin des Toyobo-Textil-Unternehmens, einer der reichsten Frauen Japans. 1970 gründete sie die spirituelle Bewegung Shinji Shumeikai, die inzwischen angeblich 400.000 Mitglieder[1] weltweit hat. 1991 gab sie den Auftrag, das Museum in der Nähe von „Misono“, dem spirituellen Zentrum von Shumei, in den Bergen von Shiga, zu bauen.

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- [en] Miho Museum

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[es] Museo Miho

El Museo Miho es un museo situado al sudeste de Kioto (Japón), cerca de la localidad de Shigaraki, en la prefectura de Shiga. También es la sede del Shumeikai, un nuevo grupo religioso fundado por Mihoko Koyama.

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[fr] Musée Miho

Le musée Miho (美秀美術館, Miho bijutsukan?) est un musée privé d'antiquités situé dans la préfecture de Shiga, au nord de Kyoto, au Japon.

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