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Formerly the Imperial capital of Japan for more than one thousand years, Kyoto is known as the thousand-year capital. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Insho Domoto (1891 - 1975) was a Japanese artist. His birth name was Sannosuke Dōmoto. He was a recipient of the Order of Culture in 1961. Insho cultivated a strong interest in history, aesthetic theory, and Western art from the Old Masters to Cubism and Kandinsky. He started Nihonga, but later turned to oil paintings including religious artworks. By the work of mural painting of church he was awarded the "Order of St. Sylvester" from Curia Romana in 1963. Then after the end of the 1950s he started the Nihonga Abstract Paintings, also he painted them on old Kyoto temples' sliding door = Fusuma

In 1966 the artist established Domoto Museum of Fine Arts to display his works of art by his design

The Insho Domoto Museum of Fine Arts is located in northwestern Kyoto

The museum is located across the street from Ritsumeikan University in northwest Kyoto. It is close to the Golden Pavilion and Ryoanji Temple

The museum building was designed by

Domoto himself

Doors

Gamelan

Virtually all of the building is made up of Domoto's works including the walls, door knobs, stained glass windows, and chairs for resting. It could be said that the art museum itself is a work of art

Paris 1952

Rome 1952

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The collection covers Domoto's life works from his first work to his most famous works produced in his later years

Daily Life -1955

Paris 1952

Landscape of Fukakusa, southern Distinct Kyoto -1919

Cormorant Fishing 1923 The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Cherry Blossoms at Night in Maruyama Park, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)

Cherry Blossoms in Rain at Arashiyama

Daimonji-yama

Chinese bell flower Kingfisher and Reed

Slope (Image of Gojo-zaka) -1924Mount Fuji

Deer 1930

Village Scenery 1950

Morning-Glories 1942The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Winter Morning MoMATokyo

Nandin

1957 1968 Puppet Master 1950

My father

Self-portrait

Scene of the tea ceremony 1948

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Owl 1962

Two 1945

Tenacity 1963 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Ohara mefrom the album Eight Views of

Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)

Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art In Kobe

Kinkaku-ji in Snow, from the album Eight

Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)

1950

The year Todaiji 1925

Fukakusayama Treasure Ship

The Imperial Palace in Snow

Nursing Mother's Prayer for Milk 1924

Road in the mountain

Symphony 1961

Domoto produced works using a variety of painting styles from orthodox Japanese-style paintings featuring nature to abstract paintings that evoke memories of Picasso. Visitors can sense this ever‐changing nature from his body of work

Wind God -1961

Sliding doors Fusuma

Auspicious wind blowing through pines 1940

White Hawk (Hakutaka)

Auspicious wind blowing through pines 1940

Insho's Preparatory Drawings for Fusuma Paintings Chishaku-in Temple

Fusuma Paintings Chishaku-in Temple

Triptych of Buddhist Saint Vimalakirti 1923

Six Avalokitesvaras (Kanzeon) 1937

Hariti 1922 MoMAK

Princess Konohanasakuya -

1929

Birth of prince Shotoku1947

Cat 1922

Hares playing in the Spring Field

1938

Locks 1951

A Family 1949

Newspaper The National Museum of

Modern Art, Kyoto

Eight hours 1951

Suspicion 1954

Metro 1953

The Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts holds an annual exhibition which takes a historical look at work that arose from art schools in Kyoto

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Pomegranates 1920

Snow

Study for Ukon Takayama wall painting in Tamatsukuri Cathedral 1962

Study for Garasha Hosokawa, wall painting in Tamatsukuri Cathedral 1962

Beginning and Ending of Destiny (Annunciation) 1954

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Study for Maria wall painting in

Tamatsukuri Cathedral

1962

Beginning and Ending of Destiny (Pieta) 1954

The Insho Domoto Museum was founded in 1966, and houses the works of Insho Domoto. In addition, there are periodic exhibits

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