| 1．Onomichi City Museum of Art ・Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture |
| Onomichi City Museum of Art (尾道市立美術館, Onomichi shiritsu bijutsukan) opened in Senkō-ji Park in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1980. The Museum reopened to a design by Tadao Ando in 2003. The collection includes works by Kobayashi Wasaku (小林和作) and Wada Eisaku (和田英作).[1][2][3][4] The museum has become notable on the Internet for being visited on a regular basis by two cats, whom the museum guards have to repeatedly turn away due to the museum's strict "no animals" policy.[5][6] |
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| 2．Nakata Museum ・Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture |
| Nakata Museum (なかた美術館, Nakata bijutsukan) opened in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1997. The collection includes works by Corot, Renoir, Cézanne, Kobayashi Wasaku (小林和作), and Umehara Ryūzaburō.[1][2] |
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| 3．Kōsan-ji ・5553-2 Setoda, Setoda-chō, Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture |
| Kōsan-ji (耕三寺) is a Hongan-ji school Jōdo Shinshū temple on the island of Ikuchijima in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Founded by the industrialist Koso Kōsanji in 1936 in honour of his deceased mother, and with an area of approximately fifty thousand square metres, many of its structures are modelled upon the country's most famous historic temples and shrines.[1] The Hill of Hope (未来心の丘, Miraishin no Oka) is a monument landscaped with five thousand square metres of Carrara marble, weighing some three thousand tons, by Kazuto Kuetani.[2] The Kōsan-ji Museum houses over two thousand items, including nineteen Important Cultural Properties.[3] |
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