Founded in 1880, Riseido is an art gallery with bases in Osaka and Tokyo specializing in Oriental art.
The gallery has featured a number of cultural assets that have been distributed to art museums and collectors both in Japan and from abroad for many years. Please come visit our recently opened gallery and surround yourself with masterpieces!

Open：AM11:00～PM6:00　Closed Sunday

History

1880
Tamitsuchi Murakami (first-generation owner) becomes a dealer of green tea in Hirano-machi, Higashi-ku (Chuo-ku), Osaka. Murakami operated under the trade name of "Shunchodo."
1918
Tamijiro Murakami, the second-generation owner, married the daughter of the head clerk at Mitsukoshi (formerly Echigoya). He began an art trading company in Higashi-ku (Chuo-ku), Osaka.
For the next 23 years, exhibitions were held every year in Mitsukoshi stores in Tokyo and Osaka.
1925
Tamijiro’s brother-in-law, Toshio Fujiwara, became a clerk at "Shunchodo."
1930
After Toshio’s sudden death, his eldest son, Katsumi, became a clerk.
1941
After Tamijiro’s sudden death, Toshio’s second son, Toshikazu Fujiwara, took over "Shunchodo" as the third-generation owner and renamed it "Riseido."
The name was derived from the Risei-shu (Plum Blue Collection) by Shirakaba-ha poet Rigen Kinoshita. It means a plum that has not yet ripened.
Toshio's eldest son: Katsumi Fujiwara,
            Second son: Toshikazu Fujiwara,
               Third son: Hiroshi Fujiwara
The three siblings ran the business together.
1959
After Toshikazu's sudden death, Toshio's third son, Hiroshi, became the fourth-generation owner.
1985
Hiroshi's eldest son, Toshiya, became the fifth-generation owner.
2001~
Toshiya Fujiwara joins the Art Piece Evaluation Committee for the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.
2004~
Toshiya Fujiwara earns Patron Privileges of The Metroporitan Museum of Art New York.
2014
Reorganization under the name RISEIDO ART GALLERY, K.K.
2015
Construction of RISEIDO ART GALLERY, the new office building, is completed (in September)
New office
 
Main entrance
to new office
1F Exhibition Room
2F Business Meeting Room
3F Seminar Room
  • 大阪市立東洋陶磁美術館　名誉館長　伊藤郁太郎先生　筆
  • 韓国国立中央博物館　元館長　鄭良謨先生　莞爾軒　筆

Museum Donation Pieces

October 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art　“The Punch’ong bowl ”
May 2004
The British Museum　“The Punch’ong bowl ”
June2004
The Smithsonian National Museum　 “The Koryo maebyong ”
December 2008
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka　 “The White porcelain dish ”
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics,Osaka "The White Porcelain Octagonal bottle"

The list delivery art museum since 1880

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The Brooklyn Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Freer Gallery of Art

British Museum
Museum of Art and Archaeology University of Oxford
Victoria and Albert Museum

Musee des Arts asiatiques-Guimet
Musee Cernuschi-musee des arts de l’Asia de la ville de paris

TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM
KYOTO NATIONAL MUSEUM
NARA NATIONAL MUSEUM
OSAKA　 CITY　 MUSEUM
THE MUSEUM OF ORIENTAL CERAMICS,OSAKA

NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM