Mithila Museum

Situated in Japan's snow country, the Mithila museum is housed in a converted school house in Tokamachi. About 850 Mithila paintings, more than 300 paintings that the Mithila artists created in Japan, Warli paintings by an aboriginal group in India and Indian terracotta statues and figurines are exhibited on a permanent basis. The Mithila Museum has invited various painters of Mithila art to Japan and have asked the painters to practice their art from using traditional methods on a new material two museum has developed, the material we call 'Pseudo wall'. The paintings with traditional bamboo stencils and natural pigments, diplays the magnitude of the traditional wall paintings creating a independent and unique world of its Ocon-a world which we describe as the cosmology of prayer.