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Watanabe Museum of Art
Watanabe Museum of Art. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Watanabe Museum Of Art (Watanabe Bijutsukan) opened in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan in 1978. It houses the 30,000-piece collection of Tottori resident Dr. Hajime Watanabe (1911–2017). It holds the largest collection of Samurai armour and weapons in any museum in Japan.

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

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