響きあう名宝（静嘉堂文庫美術館） Resonance of the Art Treasured (Seikado Bunko Art Museum)

 

静嘉堂文庫美術館が、世田谷から丸の内に移転して、初めてとなる展覧会。

この美術館が誇る、曜変天目茶碗や俵屋宗達の源氏物語関屋澪標図屛風など、自慢の名宝を一挙に展示した贅沢な内容。

かつては、武蔵野の面影が残る世田谷区の岡本にあったこの美術館。自宅から歩いて行ける距離にあったために、よく通っていたとても身近な美術館だった。

それが、三菱家にゆかりのある丸の内の明治生命ビルに移転してしまい、とても残念に思っていた。

岡本にあった頃は、広大な敷地の中にあるこじんまりとした建物の美術館で、展示スペースもそれほど広くなく、それがむしろ親近感を感じさせた。

新しい丸の内の方は、ビルの1階にあり、黒とガラスを基調としたシックながら煌びやかな雰囲気の美術館に生まれ変わった、という印象。

受付から入るとイスが並んだ広いスペースがあり、その周囲の3方に展示室が並んでいるという構成。

展示スペースは、トータルでは岡本の頃よりは広くなっているのだろうが、他の美術館に比べると、それほど広くはない印象だ。

展示されていた”名宝”は、初めて目にしたものもあったが、ほとんどはこの美術館の過去の展覧会で目にしたものが多い。

地元の幼馴染の旧友に、おしゃれな大都会の街中で突然出会ったような、そんな不思議な感覚に襲われてしまった。

This is the first exhibition since the Seikado Bunko Museum moved from Setagaya to Marunouchi.

This museum boasts a luxurious display of famous treasures such as the Yohen Tenmoku tea bowl and Tawaraya Sotatsu's folding screen of the Genji Monogatari Sekiya Miozu screen.

This art museum was once located in Okamoto, Setagaya Ward, where vestiges of Musashino still remain. It was a very familiar museum that I often visited because it was within walking distance from my house.

I was very disappointed when it moved to the Meiji Seimei Building in Marunouchi, which has a connection with the Mitsubishi family.

When it was in Okamoto, it was a small museum in a large site, and the exhibition space was not so large, which made me feel a sense of intimacy.

The new Marunouchi is located on the first floor of the building, and has the impression that it has been reborn as a museum with a chic yet gorgeous atmosphere based on black and glass.

When you enter from the reception, there is a large space with chairs lined up, and exhibition rooms are lined up on three sides around it.

The total exhibition space is probably wider than it was during Okamoto's time, but compared to other museums, the impression is not so large.

Some of the "famous treasures" on display were new to me, but most of them I had seen in past exhibitions at this museum.

I was attacked by such a strange feeling that I suddenly met an old friend of a local childhood friend in the streets of a fashionable big city.