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The painter walked the Silk Road 150 times; his canvases hang beside the Gandharan sculpture he brought back.
About this place
The Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum is a museum named after the painter and collector Ikuo Hirayama located in Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan. The museum opened in 2004. It is one of the few and significant museums about the Silk Road to be located outside of China. Many of the objects of the collection were exhibited in China in 2018–2019.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：2004 Highlights / collection：Nihonga by Ikuo Hirayama, 9,000 Silk Road excavated items Genre：Nihonga (Japanese-style painting), Antique art and Buddhist art
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