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Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum

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Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum
Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum (Kumamoto kenritsu sōshoku kofun-kan) is a museum of decorated kofun in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The collection includes full-size replicas of the inner chambers of twelve tumuli.

The museum was designed by Tadao Ando and completed at a cost of ¥1.6 bn in April 1992.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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