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National Museum of Western Art

The National Museum of Western Art is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.

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1959

Ueno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, Japan

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National Museum of Western Art in Ueno-kōen, Japan

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National Museum of Western Art gallery

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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

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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