The opened in
Hakodate
is a city and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital city of Oshima Subprefecture. As of July 31, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 279,851 with 143,221 households, and a population density of 412.8 ...
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Hokkaidō, Japan in 1993. It exhibits materials relating to
Ishikawa Takuboku
was a Japanese poet. Well known as both a tanka and or poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic" group of Japanese poets and renounced naturalism. He died of tuberculosis.
Major wo ...
and other contributors to the Hakodate literary scene.
The building in which the museum is housed was constructed in 1921 as the Hakodate Branch of the
Dai-ichi Bank
(第一) is a compound modifier phrase of Japanese origin, meaning ''number one'', or ''first''. In kanji, "dai" ("number") is 第Nakao, Seigo''Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary'' via Google Books, p. 39. Retrieved 2011-0 ...
. After the bank moved premises in 1964, the building was taken over by the JACCS company (
ja), which donated it to the city in November 1989, to be used for the promotion of culture.
See also
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Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples
first opened as the in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1989. Located in the former Bank of Japan Hakodate Branch building of 1926, after the transfer out of materials relating to the poet to the , the museum reopened in its current guise in Ap ...
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Hakodate City Museum
is a museum of history and natural history in Hakodate Park, Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan. The forerunner of the current museum, the Hakodate Provisional Museum, building one, opened in May 1879, the second building in 1884, and the third buildi ...
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Hakodate City Museum of Literature
Museums in Hakodate
Literary museums in Japan
1993 establishments in Japan
Museums established in 1993
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