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Shimonoseki City Art Museum
Shimonoseki City Art Museum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Shimonoseki City Art Museum (Shimonoseki Shiritsu Bijutsukan) is a public museum that opened in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, in 1983. The collection of some 2,200 items (as of April 2017; including items on deposit) includes works by Kanō Hōgai, Kishida Ryūsei, Matsumoto Shunsuke, Takashima Hokkai, Oka Shikanosuke, and Kazuki Yasuo, as well as a New Kingdom Egyptian shawabti and Late Period image of Horus in the guise of a falcon.

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

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