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Amuse Museum – Textile Culture and Ukiyo-e Art Museum, Asakusa, Tokyo. "Don't be wasteful" curation.

The private "Amuse Museum – Textile Culture and Ukiyo-e Art Museum" opened in 2009 in Asakusa, Tokyo, near Sensoji temple and Ueno Park. The museum houses a collection of everyday clothing and other textiles from the private collection of folklorist Chūzaburō Tanaka. It is operated and owned by the talent and entertainment agency Amuse. The museum is curated with the concept "Don't be wasteful", based on the environmental and social activism of Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. The museum's collections were started with over 30,000 everyday clothing items from the collection of the folklorist Chūzaburō Tanaka.

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The private "Amuse Museum – Textile Culture and Ukiyo-e Art Museum" opened in 2009 in Asakusa, Tokyo, near Sensoji temple and Ueno Park. The museum houses a collection of everyday clothing and other textiles from the private collection of folklorist Chūzaburō Tanaka. It is operated and owned by the talent and entertainment agency Amuse. The museum is curated with the concept "Don't be wasteful", based on the environmental and social activism of Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. The museum's collections were started with over 30,000 everyday clothing items from the collection of the folklorist Chūzaburō Tanaka.
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