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Tadao Ando’s Ryotaro Shiba Museum Will Pryce

The Museum consists of two parts. The author’s house and newly built museum, opend in the 1st, Nov, 2001. You can walk around the garden and see the author’s study from outside. The author worked here until his death, 12th, Feb, 1996. You proceed to the new part through the curving glass corridor. Inside, at first glance you will be fascinated by the huge bookshelf (11meters high) with 20,000 books. Researching these books the author wrote about 500 historical novels, essays, critical essays and many other works. We regard this area as “his another study”. Please sit on the chair looking up at the wall of books and feel the author’s spirit. The new building was designed by Ando Tadao, a famous Japanese architect, to show the creative world of Shiba Ryotaro.

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