This art museum houses and exhibits tea ceremony utensils, kaiseki ware and art pieces collected over 50 years by Yuki Teiichi, founder of the Japanese restaurant Kitcho. It opened in 1987 in a building built on the former site of the Kitcho Hirano store, just off Midosuji into Hiranomachi. In addition to 13 Important Cultural Properties such as Ishiyamakiri, Koyakiri, Daito Kokushi's Calligraphy, Kasuganomiya Mandala, Chinese Tea Caddy Mihotsukushi Nasu, Shino Tea Bowl Meihirosawa, and Oribe Shiho Tebachi, it also houses fine pieces mainly from the Nara to Edo periods. Special exhibitions are held three to four times a year.