The green island floating in the gentle blue sea. The fishing boats making small waves in the calm sea. That's the Setouchi scenery -------- Nakagawa museum is located on a hill looking down on Tomonoura.
Tomonoura from Nakagawa museum. Shikoku island can be seen on a sunny day.		The entrance of museum
The sign board of the museum is written by Go-Sakujin who is the president of the Chinese fine art association.	"The smallest museum in Japan" The curator Nakagawa smiles. Nakagawa museum has only two display halls. This museum is not so large but incredibly great. About five thousand collections including national treasure class, traditional and Chinese modern paintings are stored in this museum.
The tables used in Kokyu(old palace called Shikin-castle) , the furniture(ex. folding screen) ,the china wares used from Kan-period to modern ages, ink stone used by the Emperor of So and Chinese paintings... Too numerous to mention -------		The bronze bell. Its musical scale is made by difference of bell's size.
	It is said that Nakagawa museum has many excellent collections. Especially it is acclaimed as the world No.1 collector of Chinese fine arts. Mr. Nakagawa was selected as "top 200 collectors in the world" by Art News (Information magazine of American art) Why don't you discover the best Chinese fine art in scenic Setouchi?
<Museum Data> Address : Uguisu-no-sato, Kumano-cho, Fukuyama city, Hiroshima, Japan Phone : 0849-59-1248 Open : 10:00AM - 4:00PM Closed : Tuesday, all Dec, Jan and Feb Admission fee : 900 yen / elementary and junior high school 300 yen		"Heibayou" was discovered near the Emperor's inperialtomb of Shin. "Heibayou" is clay figures which was made as the model of the Emperor's troops. This picture is replica of "Doubashya".
<Access> 20 minutes by car from JR Fukuyama station. 10 minutes by car from Tomonoura.