Our new logo symbolizes the Museum's mission. It was designed by Kaoru Kasai and Tomohiko Nagakura, art directors of Sun-Ad Company Limited. The motif is the Japanese phonetic hiragana "mi," an adaptation of the Chinese ideographic kanji meaning "beauty or art." By combining a Japanese character with its Chinese ancestor in a modern logo design, we aspire to follow the wisdom and artistic spirit of hiragana. The source of the calligraphic "mi" is the Joruri emaki, a scroll painting in the Suntory Museum of Art's collection.
