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Only painters who died young; their drawings hang in a dim room, most of them made before the artist turned thirty.
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KAITA EPITAPH Zansho-kan is an art museum in Maeyama, Ueda, Nagano Prefecture. Its predecessor was the Shinano Drawing Museum. In 1979 (Showa 54), the owner Kubojima Seiichiro founded the "Shinano Drawing Museum." It holds and exhibits about 1,000 works by painters who died young, starting with Murayama Kaita's masterpiece "Nude Monk Urinating" (1915), collected by Kubojima, and works by Sekine Shoji, Noda Hideo, Tobari Kogan, Aimitsu, Matsumoto Shunsuke and Oguma Hideo. A tea room is attached.
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Founded / opened：1979 Highlights / collection：Kaita Murayama, Shoji Sekine, Ai Mitsu Genre：Western-style painting
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