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Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum
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Decorated Kofun Database
Archaeological museums in Japan Prefectural museums Museums in Kumamoto Prefecture Tadao Ando buildings Kofun Museums established in 1992 1992 establishments in Japan {{Japan-museum-stub
is a museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
of decorated kofun
are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Northeast Asia. ''Kofun'' were mainly constructed in the Japanese archipelago between the middle of the 3rd century to the early 7th century CE.岡田裕之「前方後円墳」『日本古代史大辞典』 ...
in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to ...
, Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. The collection includes full-size replicas of the inner chambers of twelve tumuli.
The museum was designed by Tadao Ando
is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
Early life
Ando was born a few m ...
and completed at a cost of ¥1.6 bn in April 1992.
See also
*Kofun period
The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period. This period is ...
* Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
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*Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum
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Decorated Kofun Database
Archaeological museums in Japan Prefectural museums Museums in Kumamoto Prefecture Tadao Ando buildings Kofun Museums established in 1992 1992 establishments in Japan {{Japan-museum-stub