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Mingei International Museum
Mingei is a special word increasingly used throughout the world for "Arts Of the People", coined by Soetsu Yanagi, through by combining the Japanese words for all people (min) and art (gei). Mingei International presents dynamic, changing exhibitions of traditional and contemporary folk art, craft and design.
URL: http://www.mingei.org/
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09-07-2000
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Mithila Museum
Housed in a converted schoolhouse in Tokamachi, Niigata Prefecture, the museum exhibits more than 850 Indian paintings and terracotta statues (in Japanese and English)
URL: http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~mithila/
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18-02-2001
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National Museum of Japanese History
Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan (Rekihaku) is the only museum of Japanese history in Japan which supports systematic research and exhibitions of Japanese history and culture (in Japanese and English)
URL: http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/
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03-04-2000
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National Museum of Western Art
Japan's only national museum specializing in western art. The museum's collection presents the history of western art from the late medieval period through the beginning of the 20th century. Works from the museum collection on display include a large number of sculpture by Auguste Rodin, and works by such representative modern French painters as Delacroix, Courbet, Renoir and Monet
URL: http://www.nmwa.go.jp/
 
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19-02-2001
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Setagaya Art Museum
The Setagaya Art Museum is located in a corner of Kinuta Park, one of Tokyo's most beautiful public parks with broad lawns and luxuriant vegetation reflecting the changes of the seasons.
The museum provides a variety of programs including exhibitions, performances, and lectures covering a wide range of artistic expression, giving the public extensive opportunities to encounter art and ponder its meaning in a relaxed environment that fully utilizes the beauties of nature (in Japanese and English)
URL: http://www.setagayaartmuseum.or.jp/index.htm
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19-02-2001
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The National Museum of Art Osaka
"Main purpose of the museum is to show, with exhibitions, how Japanese art developed in close relation to the art of the world, without restrictions of period or regional divisions"; general information, exhibition schedule, links (in Japanese and English)
URL: http://www.nmao.go.jp/
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17-07-2000
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The National Museum of Ethnology
"The National Museum of Ethnology, or 'Minpaku' was established in Osaka in 1974 to provide the general public with in depth information on people, societies and cultures throughout of the world"
URL: http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/
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17-07-2000
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The Raku Museum
The Raku Museum situated in Kyoto is a unique museum specialised on Raku ceramics, exhibiting a collection of Raku pieces handed down by the Raku family, a ceramic dynasty of 450 years' (in Japanese and English)
URL: http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/
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20-11-2000
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