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The novelist Dazai's birthplace: a landlord's cypress mansion with its own rice store, the shape Meiji wealth took in Tsugaru.
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The Osamu Dazai Memorial Museum (太宰治記念館, Dazai Osamu Kinenkan), also commonly referred to as Shayōkan (斜陽館) (transl. Setting Sun Manor), is a writer's home museum located in the Kanagi area of Goshogawara in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the late author Osamu Dazai, who spent some of his early childhood in Kanagi, and houses antique furniture, ornaments and a collection of Osamu Dazai's works.
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Founded / opened：1907 Architect / artist：Sakichi Horie Highlights / collection：Mansion built of hiba cypress, Dazai's birthplace Genre：Architecture
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