Museum Tsuru
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ミュージアム都留
The Museum Tsuru was built in 1999 to introduce visitors to the history and culture of Tsuru.
Museum Tsuru, built in 1999, traces the history of the Tsuru area from Jomon settlement more than 10,000 years ago through its sixteenth-century prominence as a castle town. Exhibits cover the prosperous silk trade of the Edo period and the five-month visit of haiku poet Matsuo Basho in 1683. The centerpiece of the collection is one of the city's yatai festival floats, hand-pulled wooden carts used in the annual Hassaku Festival each September 1st, with curtains painted by nineteenth-century artists including Katsushika Hokusai. The museum also hosts a rotating display of works by local contemporary painter Makoto Masuda, whose canvases focus on everyday life in the region.
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