Kobe City Museum of Literature

Branch Memorial Chapel, now Kobe City Museum of Literature
Inside the museum (chapel interior)

Kobe City Museum of Literature (神戸文学館) is dedicated to the literary scene in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in the Meiji, Taishō, Shōwa, and Heisei periods.[1] The museum opened in 2006 in the former Branch Memorial Chapel of Kwansei Gakuin University, a Meiji period building largely funded by John Kerr Branch, a scion and financier from Richmond, Virginia.[2][3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kobe City Museum of Literature". Kobe City. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Kobe City Museum of Literature - as a historical building". Kobe City. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "Two Bits from Henry Isenbourg". Kwansei Gakuin University. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

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Coordinates: 34°42′33″N 135°12′48″E / 34.70917°N 135.21333°E / 34.70917; 135.21333

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