Karuizawa Peinet Museum
The Karuizawa Peinet Museum was established in 1985. The opening ceremony was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Peinet. The Peinet Museum is located in the Karuizawa Taliesin, a comprehensive cultural facility centered around Lake Shiozawa, 2-3 km from Karuizawa Station.
In front of the Peinet Museum: Peinet's sculpture of lovers
In addition to the Peynet Museum, Taliesin also has Karuizawa Kogen Bunko, Fukazawa Beniko Nonohana Museum, Suikyu-so, the English Rose Garden, cafes, restaurants, and boats on the lake. Let's start with the Peynet Museum and then introduce the charms of Taliesin. Karuizawa is a summer resort discovered by Westerners, so all of these places have deep ties to the West.
Map of Taliesin
The Peynet Museum is a relocated studio and villa called the Karuizawa Summer House, which was built in 1933 by Antonin Raymond, who came to Japan when the old Imperial Hotel was being built. The building of the Peynet Museum is also a valuable cultural heritage of Karuizawa.
Exhibits at the Peinet Museum The building of the Peinet Museum Designed by Antonin Raymond
This cool Karuizawa summer house, the Peynet Museum exhibits Peynet's drawings, opaque watercolors, etchings and lithographs, posters, Peynet's ceramics, dolls, etc., and also sells Peynet goods such as art books, Peynet wine, and Peynet glasses. You can enjoy the world of love and peace of Raymond Peynet, who was born in Paris, here at the Karuizawa Peynet Museum.
About Karuizawa Kogen Bunko
Karuizawa Kogen Bunko building Display of Karuizawa Kogen Bunko
Writers of the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods superimposed their admiration for the West on the image of Karuizawa, and many writers, politicians and business people lived there. The Karuizawa Kogen Bunko exhibits handwritten manuscripts by writers who lived in Karuizawa, including Kawabata Yasunari, Arishima Takeo, Nogami Yaeko, Hori Tatsuo, Muroo Saisei, Tachihara Michizo and Masamune Hakucho. The Arishima Takeo Villa (Jogetsuan), Hori Tatsuo Mountain Villa and Nogami Yaeko's study have been relocated nearby. You can see the history of culture in harmony with the bright nature of Karuizawa.
Takeo Arishima's Villa (Jogetsuan) Yaeko Nogami's Study Tatsuo Hori's Villa (Villa No. 1412)
