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Photo of the entrance to Mugon-kan (無言館, "Speechless Museum"), the Museum of the Fallen Art Students, in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Description: A path paved with a mosaic of irregularly shaped, large stone tiles leads to a rectangular opening in one of the end walls of a grey, concrete building which is laid out in the form of a cross. The seemingly windowless building has dark, gable roofs and is surrounded by trees with leaves showing their autumn colours. Fallen leaves lie scattered on either side of the stone-paved path.

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Photo of the entrance to Mugon-kan (無言館, "Speechless Museum"), the Museum of the Fallen Art Students, in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Description: A path paved with a mosaic of irregularly shaped, large stone tiles leads to a rectangular opening in one of the end walls of a grey, concrete building which is laid out in the form of a cross. The seemingly windowless building has dark, gable roofs and is surrounded by trees with leaves showing their autumn colours. Fallen leaves lie scattered on either side of the stone-paved path.
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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 09:34:43 JST Minoru Saba

Visited Mugon-kan (無言館, "Speechless Museum"), the Museum of the Fallen Art Students, in Ueda City, Nagano Pref where paintings & sculptures left by art students who fell in WW2 are displayed. Most were in their 20's & early 30's. Some returned to Japan, but died in hospital. Last portraits of loved ones, sketches, graduation certificates...glimmers of what might have been, of what was lost.
https://www.nippon.com/en/features/c03306/?pnum=1
#art #Nagano #Japan

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