This museum was built on the site in Yukinoshita, Kamakura, where Kiyokata Kaburaki, a great painter of the modern Nihonga, Japanese style painting, lived the last part of his life. Kiyokata was born in 1878 in Tokyo. He began his career as an illustrator by drawing for books and magazines. Later he turned to painting in the Japanese style, and created many books focusing on graceful women, and the lively life of the common people in town. He is called as the greatest painter of Bijin-ga, pictures of beautiful women. He began to live in Kamakura in 1946 and died in 1972 at the age of 93.