is a
museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...
dedicated to Japanese monk and sculptor
Enkū in the city of
Seki,
Gifu Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,910,511 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture ...
, Japan. Enkū was born in
Mino Province
was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today southern Gifu Prefecture. Mino was bordered by Ōmi to the west, Echizen and Hida to the north, Shinano to the east, and Ise, Mikawa, and Owari to the south. Its abbreviated fo ...
, present-day Gifu Prefecture, in 1632 and died in Seki in 1695.
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Japanese sculpture
Sculpture in Japan began with the clay figure. Towards the end of the long Neolithic Jōmon period, "flame-rimmed" pottery vessels had sculptural extensions to the rim, and very stylized pottery dogū figures were produced, many with the charac ...
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Seki, Gifu
Art museums and galleries in Gifu Prefecture
Museums of Japanese art
Biographical museums in Japan
Buddhist museums
Museums established in 2003
Religious buildings and structures completed in 2003
Religious organizations established in 2004
2003 establishments in Japan
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