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Shimonoseki City Art Museum

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

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Shimonoseki City Art Museum (下関市立美術館, 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 (高島北海), Oka Shikanosuke (岡鹿之助), and Kazuki Yasuo (香月泰男), 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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