Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City
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Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City (Irie Taikichi Kinen Nara-shi Shashin Bijutsukan) opened in Nara, Japan, in 1992. Located near Shin-Yakushi-ji and designed by Kishō Kurokawa, the Museum was formerly known as the Nara City Museum of Photography. The collection includes the complete oeuvre of Irie Taikichi (1905 – 1992), some 80,000 works; a set of 1,025 Meiji and Taishō glass plates by Kudō Risaburō (1848 – 1929) that are a Registered Tangible Cultural Property; and photographs by Tsuda Yoho (1923 – 2014).
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