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Hirosaki City Museum

Hirosaki City Museum (弘前市立博物館, Hirosaki Shiritsu Hakubutsukan) opened in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan in 1977. It lies within Hirosaki Park, in the former grounds of Hirosaki Castle. As of March 2016, the collection numbered some eighteen thousand items, including an assemblage of artefacts excavated from the Sunazawa Site that have been designated an Important Cultural Property.

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Shimoshirogane-chō, Shimoshirogane-chō, Japan

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Hirosaki City Museum in Shimoshirogane-chō, Japan

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Kunio Maekawa

1905-1986 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Kunio Maekawa was a Japanese architect and a key figure of modernism in post-war Japan. After early stints in the studios of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond, Maekawa began to articulate his architectural language after establishing his firm in 1935, maintaining a continuous tension between Japanese traditional design…

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Mayekawa Associates

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