[Image: KISHIO SUGA, Divergent Space (Detail), 1975. Wood and cement blocks, 184 × 216 × 456 cm. Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery.]

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Okura Shukokan is Japan’s first private museum, founded in 1917 by the father of Hotel Okura founder Kishichiro Okura Meiji era industrialist Kihachiro Otsuka. The collection consists of over 2000 works including paintings, sculptures, handicraft, and Noh costumes. Furthermore, the collection holds over 35,000 Chinese books.

Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present