Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art
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Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art (Shichinohe chōritsu Takayama Uichi kinen bijutsukan) opened in Shichinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, in 1994 as a part of Roadside Station Shichinohe. The collection comprises four main areas: three rooms with paintings by four artists from or otherwise associated with Shichinohe, namely Takayama Uichi (1908–1999) and fellow yōga artist Hirano Shirō (1904–1983), Nihonga artist Toya Banzan (1876–1966), and Kamiizumi Kayō (1892–1979), who specialised in painting horses; the Lamp Hall, with its nucleus in Takayama Uichi's collection of nineteenth-century western and Meiji lamps; the Ema Hall, with folk artefacts centred upon ema, hagoita, and other related items from nearby Mirumachi Kannon-dō and Kodako Fudō-dō that have been designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties; and a Spanish Folk Ceramic Hall.
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