Museum/Store SpaceMatsuzakaya Museum, Matsuzakaya Nagoya store

Creating Spiritually Enriching Space
MuseumJ. Front Retailing has museums andmultipurpose halls in its major department
stores and holds topical exhibitions andvarious events to provide easier access to theexcellent works of popular artists in Japan andabroad. We oﬀer spiritually aﬄuent lifestyles
to visitors and make a cultural contribution to
local communities through paintings and awide variety of other fascinating works of art
including photos, designs and picture bookillustrations.

■ Major cultural events held during ﬁscal 2009
Kataoka Tamako Memorial Exhibition （Matsuzakaya Museum）
Juan Miro: Parade of Obsessions （Daimaru Tokyo and Kobe）
Moomin（Daimaru Shinsaibashi, Tokyo and Sapporo）
M. C. Escher: Invitation to the Labyrinth （Matsuzakaya Museum）
Léonard Fujita（Matsuzakaya Museum and Daimaru Kobe）
Nakahara Junichi （Daimaru Kobe）
The History and Various Treasures of Higashi Honganji （Matsuzakaya Museum）
Nodame Cantabile World （Daimaru Kobe）■ Schedule for ﬁscal 2010
Layout of Studio Ghibli （Matsuzakaya Museum）
Go Go Miffy: 55 Years with Miffy（Daimaru Sapporo and Kobe and Matsuzakaya Museum）

Akatsuka Fujio Memorial Exhibition（Matsuzakaya Hall of Matsuzakaya Nagoya）

Ten Years After, Migishi Setsuko （Matsuzakaya Museum）
Iwago Mistuaki Photo Exhibition: Cats（Matsuzakaya Nagoya）
Great Insect Exhibition（Matsuzakaya Hall of Matsuzakaya Nagoya）
Jimmy Onishi Exhibition Celebrating the Release of His Art Book: Pieces of Dreams（Daimaru Shinsaibashi）

Triptych of Flowers and Rising Sun Edo era by Sakai Hoitsu
from the Gitter Collection, New Orleans

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Return of Japanese Edo Paintings
Gitter Collection, New Orleans（Matsuzakaya Museum）
Munakata Shiko （Daimaru Kyoto）
Art Nouveau Poster Art（Matsuzakaya Museum）
Domoto Insho Exhibition Celebrating the 120th Anniversary of His Birth（Matsuzakaya Museum）

Kimono collection
Matsuzakaya opened Kimono Museum in Kyoto in1931 to help create its original kimono. Since
then, it has collected dyed textile products fromJapan and other countries across the world for 80years. It has about 10,000 items mainly including(small-sleeved kimono) of the Edo era suchas Keicho
allegedly worn by Yodo-dono, aconcubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which iscomparable to an important cultural property.
In August 2010, Matsuzakaya will move thiscollection to Nagoya store to manage and store itin Matsuzakaya Archive and will show somekimono to the public in
the permanent exhibition
space of MatsuzakayaMuseum on the 7th ﬂoorof the south wing fromtime to time to create
opportunities to expose
many people to theKeicho
essence of Japanese
allegedly worn
dyed textile works of art.
by Yodo-donoArchitectural beauty of W. M. Vories
It was in 1914 that Daimaru kimono fabric store, which wasfounded in 1717, opened a Western style store with display
windows in the present location of Shinsaibashi store. A
few years later, in October 1918, a unique Gothic stylefour-story timber-frame and brick department store was born,which was rare even in Osaka. It was the ﬁrst building that
W. M. Vories (1880-1964) designed for Daimaru.
Regrettably, however, it was burned down only one year andfour months later. The current building of Shinsaibashi

Peacock relief

store was constructed in four phases according to a plan.
In the ﬁrst phase of construction, the southern half facing
the arcade street of Shinsaibashisuji was completed in
1922, and in the second phase, the northern part facing thesame street was completed in 1925. And then the thirdand fourth phases of additional construction of the partfacing Midosuji street were completed in 1932 and thefollowing 1933 respectively. This is how a Neo-Gothic
style department store with seven stories above ground

Mezzanine of the main building

Elevator hall on the 1st floor of the main building

Relief ceiling

Fresco ceiling

Ceiling of light and colors

Stained glass designed after Aesop s Fables

came into existence.
The middle layer of the building is covered with grave
scratched tiles. It is between the granite exterior wall of theﬁrst ﬂoor and the outer wall of the top ﬂoor elaborately
designed with terra cotta. Once you step into the store
through the entrance with a relief of a peacock, which is asymbol of Daimaru, you will ﬁnd gorgeous details one after
another, including fresco paintings on the ceiling and astained glass clock on the upper wall of the central elevator
hall. All of them, including geometric patterns, abstract
ﬂowers and trees and snow and mineral crystals, from theworld of Art Deco uniﬁed in one tone.
Department stores should have diﬀerent characteristics
from region to region. Here is one of the approaches ofShinsaibashi store to oﬀer customers special time andspace as well as products and services.

Stained glass clock
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