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A hall of beauty and a site of leading-edge technologies

Kyocera’s head office building houses two cultural facilities: the Kyocera Gallery on the first floor and the Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics on the second floor. The Kyocera Gallery collection includes the whole “347 Series” of copperplate prints by Picasso (named after the number of works therein), Japanese paintings by Kaii Higashiyama and Ikuo Hirayama, Western-style paintings by Ryuzaburo Umehara and Junji Yoshii, and sculptures by Shinya Nakamura and Yasutake Funakoshi, as well as Qianlong glass from Qing China, which is said to have influenced French Nancy School artists, such as Emile Gallé, and Japanese cut glass producers. Out of these precious works, some are displayed in the permanent exhibition. The museum also holds special exhibitions from time to time. Meanwhile, the Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics displays the company’s fine ceramics products to introduce the history of the development of those products and fine ceramics technology, one of today’s cutting-edge technologies. Moreover, the museum even goes back to the prehistory of fine ceramics by tracing the history of pottery to date, beginning with Jomon pottery dating back over 10,000 years, to give visitors a clearer, more contextualized picture of the evolution of ceramics toward state-of-the-art fine ceramics.