Qualla: Homma Museum of Art https://qualla.com/homma-museum-of-art en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:40 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/g/m/homma-museum-of-art-wp/honma-museum-of-art-15-august-.jpg Qualla: Homma Museum of Art https://qualla.com/homma-museum-of-art Homma Museum of Art: Introduction https://qualla.com/homma-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Broad-Sky in Japan, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is a folk song in Sakata that goes: "Homma Sama is out of our reach, but we wanna be Tonosama at least." In Edo-period Japan, where the rigid social hierarchy placed merchants at the very bottom and feudal lords near the top, this lyric was extraordinary. It meant that the Homma family -- technically the lowest class -- had accumulated wealth and influence so vast that even aspiring to match them was futile. The best an ordinary person could dream of was becoming a lord. That merchant dynasty's former residence, a graceful wooden villa overlooking gardens that borrow the silhouette of a sacred volcano, is now the Homma Museum of Art, and it holds the artistic legacy of a family that used commerce to build a cultural empire.

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]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/g/m/homma-museum-of-art-wp/xngm-homma-museum-of-art-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Homma Museum of Art: From Rice Ships to Rembrandts https://qualla.com/homma-museum-of-art/ Photo credit 掬茶, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Homma family built their fortune on the kitamaebune -- the coastal trading ships that linked Osaka to Hokkaido during the Edo period, carrying rice, safflower, and other goods along the Sea of Japan coast. Sakata was a critical waypoint on this route, and the Homma clan domin...

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]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/g/m/homma-museum-of-art-wp/xngm-homma-museum-of-art-from-rice-ships-to-rembrandts.mp3 0:06 2 full Homma Museum of Art: A Villa Fit for Emperors https://qualla.com/homma-museum-of-art/ Photo credit 掬茶, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Seienkaku villa served as the family's secondary residence and guest house, and its guest list reads like a roster of Japanese nobility. Members of the Sakai and Uesugi clans -- former daimyo of the Shonai and Yonezawa Domains -- passed through its rooms. In 1908, a second st...

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]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/g/m/homma-museum-of-art-wp/xngm-homma-museum-of-art-a-villa-fit-for-emperors.mp3 0:06 3 full Homma Museum of Art: Twenty-Five Centuries of Beauty https://qualla.com/homma-museum-of-art/ Photo credit 掬茶, CC BY-SA 3.0. The museum's collection of some 2,500 objects spans centuries and media. Among the treasures are a Kamakura-period edition of the Ise Monogatari and three other designated Important Cultural Properties of Japan. The paintings alone chart the arc of Japanese art history: works by ...

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