Description
The Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art holds one of the most important collections of Asian art in Europe: some fifteen thousand Japanese and Chinese pieces, in a modern building inside the Villetta Di Negro park, right in the center of Genoa, next to Piazza Corvetto.
Standouts among the rooms are the great Buddhist statues in bronze and wood, the samurai armor with swords and helmets, the masks of Noh theater and the ukiyo-e prints by Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro. From the terrace you can see the whole old town.
Edoardo Chiossone was an engraver from Arenzano who spent twenty-three years in Japan, from 1875 to 1898, running the imperial printing works for banknotes and securities in Tokyo. He left his collection to Genoa in his will: the crates arrived in 1899, but the museum, designed by Mario Labò, opened only in 1971.
Standouts among the rooms are the great Buddhist statues in bronze and wood, the samurai armor with swords and helmets, the masks of Noh theater and the ukiyo-e prints by Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro. From the terrace you can see the whole old town.
Edoardo Chiossone was an engraver from Arenzano who spent twenty-three years in Japan, from 1875 to 1898, running the imperial printing works for banknotes and securities in Tokyo. He left his collection to Genoa in his will: the crates arrived in 1899, but the museum, designed by Mario Labò, opened only in 1971.