Hirayama Ikuo Museum

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Opened in 1997 for the painter born here, exposed to the bomb at just 15.

The museum shows Hirayama Ikuo's paintings of the Silk Road, the cycle that made him one of the leading nihonga painters of the post-war period, alongside his childhood drawings, photos from his school years and the written accounts he left of the atomic bomb, which he witnessed first-hand.

Museum devoted to the painter Hirayama Ikuo, in his home town of Setoda, on the island of Ikuchijima. Hirayama Ikuo (1930–2009) became the leading nihonga painter of the post-war period for his Silk Road cycles. On 6 August 1945 he was a third-year junior high school student at the Shūdō school in Hiroshima: he survived exposure to the bomb at 15, an experience that would mark his work for the rest of his life. The museum opened on 6 April 1997.

ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30), with practically no closing days except when exhibitions change. Adult ticket about 1,000–1,200 yen depending on the current exhibition; 10% discount if you show a ticket from the nearby Kōsan-ji.

Sources: hirayama-museum.or.jp · city.onomichi.hiroshima.jp · ja.wikipedia.org

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