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Kyoto National Museum: Interior · Kyoto National Museum in Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture , Japan
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Kyoto National Museum: Exterior
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Museum · Historic precedent

Kyoto National Museum

Katayama Tokuma · Kyoto, Japan · 1895

Key featuresBrick Meiji-era hall in French baroque style, an early Western-style museum in Japan.

Architect
Katayama Tokuma
Place
Kyoto, Japan
Year
1895
Typology
Museum
Movement
Historic precedent
Region
East Asia
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