The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo was designed by Le Corbusier, with his apprentices Kunio Maekawa, Junzo Sakakura and Takamasa Yoshizaka handling detailed drawings and supervision. The article names no client, but the Japanese government sought the return of Kōjirō Matsukata's collection from France. The text says it was completed in March 1959 and opened June 10, 1959, after over two years of construction.
The article calls the style Modernist, with Le Corbusier's Modulor proportions. It uses reinforced concrete, prefabricated concrete panels and smooth-finished columns. The site covers 0.93 hectare, with a square plan and galleries raised on piloti.
A lecture hall and offices were added in 1964, an annex in 1979 and earthquake-resistant foundations in 1998. UNESCO listed it in 2016. It holds about 4,500 works and had 1,162,345 visitors in 2016. The article gives no hours.
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