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“On 25 May 1959, Iwamoto Shinichirō, the incoming mayor of the city of Takayama, in northern Gifu prefecture, approached the local potter, painter, and folklorist Nagakura Saburō with a request. Nagakura had been chosen by Iwamoto’s predecessor to lead in the establishment of a folklore museum just outside the city centre. Like the Takayama Kyōdo-kan, a local history and culture museum that had run deficits for all the six years of its administration, the folklore museum was to be administered from the city’s education department. Iwamoto wanted to make sure that during his tenure the new museum would serve as a catalyst to draw tourism money to the city, rather than being a drain on its resources.…”

(excerpt from “Architecture, Folklore Studies, and Cultural Democracy:
Nagakura Saburō and Hida Minzoku-mura”)

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