The opened in the grounds of the former Urado Castle in Katsurahama,
Kōchi,
Japan
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on 15 November 1991. The collection includes correspondence and other documents by
Sakamoto Ryōma and his contemporaries and there is also a library of over two thousand books relating to the
Meiji Restoration
The , referred to at the time as the , and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored Imperial House of Japan, imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Althoug ...
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Access
The museum can be accessed via the Katsurahama Line
Tosaden bus route.
See also
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Bakumatsu
were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate Meiji Restoration, ended. Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as and changed from a Feudali ...
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Ryōma's Birthplace Memorial Museum
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Meiji Restoration
Museums in Kōchi Prefecture
Prefectural museums
Biographical museums in Japan
History museums in Japan
Museums established in 1991
1991 establishments in Japan
Postmodern architecture in Japan
Kōchi, Kōchi
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