自転車で堂本印象美術館In western Kyoto, near Ritsumeikan University, is the qutie quirky Insho Domoto Museum of Art .
The Insho Domoto Museum was founded in 1966, and is home to the works of the painter Insho Domoto. It also holds periodic exhibits.
Insho Domoto was born in Kyoto in 1891. After graduation from the Kyoto City School of Arts and Crafts, he began working in Nishijin, where he designed obi and kimono.
He left work in Nishijin and entered the Kyoto Municipal Special School of Painting to become a Nihonga painter.
Domoto's oeuvre contains many paintings of European cities, though done in a Japanese style.
The museum is located across the street from Ritsumeikan University in northwest Kyoto. It is close to the Golden Pavilion and Ryoanji Temple.
The building would not look out of place in Barcelona's Park Guell.
Address
26-3 Kamiyanagi-cho, Hirano Kita-ku, Kyoto
Tel. 075 463 0007
Hours
9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. (last entry 4:30 pm); 500 yen for adults.
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