Unique shop in Kanazawa fuses bookstore, art gallery

Unique shop in Kanazawa fuses bookstore, art gallery

Owner Katsuo Mizuguchi explains on June 14, 2015, about his new shop "Books under Hotchkiss," which opened in May in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan. The two-story store near the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art is a unique combination of a bookstore and an art gallery. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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