Nakahara Chūya Memorial Museum (中原中也記念館, Nakahara Chūya Kinenkan) is a museum dedicated to the life and works of poet Nakahara Chūya in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located on the site of his birthplace (other than for a storehouse and chashitsu, the original buildings were destroyed by fire in 1972), the museum opened in 1994.[1][3] The museum was in 1998 selected among the 100 Top Public Buildings [ja] by the then Ministry of Construction.[2][4] | ||||||