"Located on the edge of the Daisen National Park, the Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography by Shin Takamatsu is a wonderful example of both Japanese architecture and photography.

Like many of the museums we have enjoyed visiting , the museum was designed for the purpose of displaying the work of a single artist, in this case, one of the Japanese masters of Photography.

The building, which includes a room size “Camara Obscura” , frames the views of the surrounding landscape and in doing so, makes them part of the work displayed.

A definite “off the bitten track” visit but a very worthy one.

The late Shoji Ueda became famous for his surrealist black and white images created in the surroundings of Tottori/Hyogo and Yamaguchi. His collection of imagers taken at the Dunes of Tottori is arguably his best known work. In the 1990s Ueda's hometown decided to build a museum by the Mount Daisen where his work could be permanently displayed and Shin Takamatsu was selected, by the photographer, to be the architect who designed it. Located on the edge of the Daisen National Park, the Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography is a wonderful example of both Japanese architecture and photography. The building, which includes a room size "Camera Obscura" , frames the views of the surrounding landscape from multiple viewpoints and in doing so, makes them part of the work displayed.