Category:Literature Museum, Kamakura

English: The Literature Museum is a small museum in Kamakura that contains material about writers that were active in the city of Kamakura itself. The plaque in fron of the villa says:

Kamakura Museum of Literature (a villa of the old, noble Maeda family)

The house was erected in 1936 by Toshinari Maeda (前田利為), the 16th head of the Maeda family, (part of the Kaga clan). It stands half way up a hill in Kamakura, overlooking Sagami Bay. It represents the villa architecture of those days. Eisaku Sato, a former Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner, once made use of it as his villa. In also appeared in a scene from "Spring Snow", a novel by Yukio Mishima, a well-known novelist. It opened the public as Kamakura Museum of Literature in November 1985. The Main Building of kamakura Museum of Literature was registered as a National Registered Tangible Property in April 2000.
日本語: 鎌倉文学館
<nowiki>鎌倉文学館; Literaturmuseum Kamakura; Kamakura Museum of Literature; 镰仓文学馆; musée de littérature de Kamakura; 神奈川県鎌倉市にある資料館; petit musée; museum di Jepang; מוזיאון ביפן; museum in Kamakura, Japan; Museum in Japan; literature museum in Kamakura, Kanagawa; متحف في اليابان; 日本的一所文学馆; музей в Японії</nowiki>
Kamakura Museum of Literature 
literature museum in Kamakura, Kanagawa
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LocationHase, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Main building contractor
Heritage designation
Inception
  • 1985
Date of official opening
  • 1 November 1985
official website
Map35° 18′ 56.16″ N, 139° 32′ 20.2″ E
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Wikidata Q5214583
VIAF ID: 158713827
Library of Congress authority ID: nr91002934
NDL Authority ID: 00285842
NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA03089474
OpenStreetMap way ID: 704524199
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