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21-530: NCHA may refer to: National Cultural Heritage Administration , an administrative agency subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China . Northern Collegiate Hockey Association National Cutting Horse Association Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

42-603: A dragon) sold for £478,000 at another auction in Dorchester. In April 2018, the Tiger Ying (a bronze water vessel) sold at an auction in the United Kingdom. The National Cultural Heritage Administration condemned the auction arguing it was illegally looted from China and demanded its return. The auctioneers did not comment on Chinese requests and the auction went ahead. However, after some private negotiations,

63-562: A similar history. In 2001, the National Gallery of Canada returned an arhat sculpture that was dated about 1300 years ago. This was the first time a museum voluntarily returned an item to the state agency. A guardian statue that had been looted from a Chinese tomb in 1994 was seized by U.S. customs agents. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York ( Mary Jo White ) filed a civil forfeiture suit under

84-577: Is a hanging scroll from the Masuda family's emakimono Jigoku zoshi ( ja ), which was cut out and reworked into hanging scrolls. The museum's collection also includes Zo to kujira-zu byōbu (Elephant and Whale) , a late masterpiece by Itō Jakuchū , one of Japan's most popular painters. This work made headlines in Japan in 2008 when it was discovered in an old house in the Hokuriku region . Among

105-462: Is a large glass and steel construction, while the exterior and interior walls and floor are made of a warm beige-colored limestone from France – the same material used by Pei in the reception hall of the Louvre . The structural engineer for this project was Leslie E. Robertson Associates. Pei continued to make changes to the design of the galleries during construction as new pieces were acquired for

126-547: Is an administrative agency affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China . It is responsible for the development and management of museums as well as the protection of cultural relics of national importance. After the Chinese Civil War , the State Bureau of Cultural Relics was established to protect relics and archaeological sites as well as help develop museums (though

147-425: Is pursuing the repatriation of these items via political, diplomatic, and international conventions. The Chinese government asserts that not only were these items taken immorally but illegally as well. A UNESCO document in 1995 states that cultural relics taken during wartime should be returned to their original countries. Egypt has supported China's efforts to repatriate its historical artifacts since they share

168-490: Is responsible for over 500,000 registered sites of immovable cultural relics on mainland China. This includes 2,352 sites under national protection, 9,396 sites under the protection of provincial governments, and 58,300 sites under the protection of county or municipal authorities. In addition, 103 cities are designated as a "Historically and Culturally Famous City." There are approximately one million ancient Chinese relics on display in more than 200 overseas museums. The agency

189-773: The Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act , which led to the statue's seizure. It was returned in May 2001. In 2001, the Miho Museum in Kyoto, Japan, returned a rare Buddhist statue that was stolen from a public garden in the Shandong province. A rare bronze horse was purchased for 8.9 million US by Macau billionaire Stanley Ho who donated it to China. In 2009, an auction in France took place despite protests from

210-714: The "stunning" MOA Museum of Art in the mountains behind Atami in 1982. Since its opening in 1997, the museum has been run by the Shumei Cultural Foundation. Takeshi Umehara , a scholar of philosophy and religion, served as the museum's first director. The Miho Museum collection began with Japanese art , including Shinto and Buddhist art, paintings , ceramics , lacquerware and tea ceremony utensils, collected by Mihoko Koyama for over 40 years. The collection consists of 3,000 pieces of Japanese and Oriental art, of which 250 to 300 are on display at any one time. Special exhibitions of Japanese art from

231-665: The Chinese Government. Two bronze sculptures that were looted from the Old Summer Palace during the Second Opium War were being auctioned. The purchaser, François Pinault , bought them and donated them back to China in 2013. An imperial Chinese gilt metal box appeared at an auction in Salisbury in 2011. It was sold for £400,000. In that same year, another relic (a yellow jade pendant carved as

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252-661: The Chinese government to return it in 2007. At the time of the agreement, the Chinese government publicly stated that the museum had purchased the Buddha statue in good faith on the open market and had not committed any fraud. Highlights of the collections have been featured in traveling exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1996, as well as

273-467: The Japanese government announced the designation of three hanging scrolls in the museum's collection as Important Cultural Properties. This brings the total number of Important Cultural Properties in the museum's collection to nine. Two of the hanging scrolls were made by cutting out sections of the emakimono (picture scroll) Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga and reworking them into hanging scrolls. The other

294-619: The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna, Austria) in 1999. Mihoko Koyama and her daughter, Hiroko Koyama, commissioned the American architect I. M. Pei to design the Miho Museum. Pei's design, which he came to call Shangri-La , is executed in a hilly and forested landscape. Approximately three-quarters of the 17,400 square meter building is situated underground, carved out of a rocky mountaintop. The roof

315-719: The Tiger Ying was returned and became part of the National Museum of China's collection in November of that year. The FBI Art Crime Team returned 361 cultural artifacts to China on February 28, 2019. A court in Milan Italy ruled 796 artifacts to be returned to China. They arrived in Beijing on April 10, 2019. Some of these relics include porcelain items from the Song and Ming dynasties. Miho Museum The museum

336-681: The agency languished during the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution ). Its cause was revitalized with the establishment of the State Cultural Relics Enterprises Management Bureau in 1973 to oversee the protection of cultural heritage and the State Bureau of Cultural Relics (SBCR) in 1988, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture, as the encompassing agency for conservation of Chinese culture and heritage. The agency

357-601: The collection are held several times a year in the North Wing, and permanent exhibitions of other areas are held in the South Wing. As of March 2022, the museum owns six of the more than 10,000 Important Cultural Properties of arts and crafts designated by the Japanese government . These included two Buddhist statues , a Buddhist painting, a Buddhist scripture, a quiver , and a tea bowl. In November 2022,

378-454: The items in the collection were acquired in collaboration with the art dealer Noriyoshi Horiuchi over the course of just six years, and some have little or no known provenance . In 2001 the museum acknowledged that a sixth-century statue of a Bodhisattva in its collection was the same sculpture which had been stolen from a public garden in Shandong province, China, in 1994, agreeing with

399-733: The objects in the collection are more than 1,200 objects that appear to have been produced in Achaemenid Central Asia. Some scholars have claimed these objects are part of the Oxus Treasure , lost shortly after its discovery in 1877 and rediscovered in Afghanistan in 1993. The presence of a unique findspot for both the Miho acquisitions and the British Museum 's material, however, has been challenged. Many of

420-533: The title NCHA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCHA&oldid=968709904 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Cultural Heritage Administration The National Cultural Heritage Administration ( NCHA ; 国家文物局 )

441-596: Was the dream of Mihoko Koyama (after whom it is named), founder of the religious organization Shinji Shumeikai which is now said to have some 300,000 members worldwide. Furthermore, in the 1990s Koyama commissioned the museum to be built close to the Shumei temple in the Shiga mountains. Meanwhile, the Church of World Messianity ( 世界救世教 , Sekai Kyūseikyō ) , the parent organization from which this Shumeikai came, had opened

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