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Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum

Yamaguchi · Yamaguchi · Museums

Japanese name: 中原中也記念館

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Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum
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WHAT TO DONakahara Chuya Memorial Museum

For a poet dead at thirty, on the site of his birthplace, showing his heavily revised drafts as calligraphy.

WHEREYamaguchi

Central · Yamaguchi

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For a poet dead at thirty, on the site of his birthplace, showing his heavily revised drafts as calligraphy.

About this place

Nakahara Chūya Memorial Museum (中原中也記念館, Nakahara Chūya Kinenkan) is a museum dedicated to the life and works of poet Nakahara Chūya in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located on the site of his birthplace (other than for a storehouse and chashitsu, the original buildings were destroyed by fire in 1972), the museum opened in 1994. The museum was in 1998 selected among the 100 Top Public Buildings by the then Ministry of Construction.

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Key facts

Founded / opened：1994 Highlights / collection：Autograph manuscripts, Built on the site of her birthplace Genre：Calligraphy

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