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It keeps a wide range of artwork Nakamura Soshun, the former president of Nakamura Sake
Manufactureing, had been collecting for a long time. The collection consists of tea ceremony
utensils for the most part, as well as of calligraphy, paintings, ceramics such as Ko-Kutani,
Kaga maki-e, and Kaga Inlay. The three pieces including the calligraphy work by Muso Soseki,
a monk in the end of the Kamakura period to the first of the Muromachi period, are designated
as national impoortant cultural properties. It has a new building and an old building. The latter is "the old Nakamaura house" with a trace of dignified town house in the beginning of the Showa period, which was moved here, open to the public like "Ume-an," a tea ceremony house annex. Both are used for tea ceremonies. At the rest room in the new building overlooking a beautiful garden, matcha (powdered tea) is served for fee. |
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Address: 3-2-29 Honda-machi, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa-ken, Japan Telephone: +81-76-221-0751 |
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