The main gallery, the Honkan, of the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno Park was designed by Jin Watanabe, whose plan won a 1931 design contest. It replaced an earlier Honkan by Josiah Conder, and an Imperial Museum Innovation Promotion Committee decided on the replacement. The article names no client. Construction ran from 1932 to 1938.
The article calls the style Imperial Crown Style, with a neoclassical base and a Japanese roof. It is reinforced concrete, with two floors plus a basement and 21,500 square meters (231,000 sq ft) of floor space. It has 20 numbered exhibition rooms. The cost was 7 million yen.
It opened on November 10, 1938, at a ceremony attended by Emperor Hirohito. The Shōsō-in treasures were displayed there in 1940, and it became an Important Cultural Property in 2001. It shows Japanese art from prehistory to the late 19th century. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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