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Museum finds Yosa Buson painting missing since 1922

OTSU, Japan - A museum in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, shows a long-missing painting by Japanese poet and painter Yosa Buson (1716-1783) to the press on Sept. 24, 2014. The whereabouts of the painting, currently owned by a company in Singapore, had been unknown for 92 years.

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More than 200 unknown haiku poems by Yosa Buson found

Photo taken Oct. 14, 2015, shows a collection of Japanese 17-syllable "haiku" poems by Yosa Buson, a haiku poet of the Edo Period. It has been found that the collection, housed at Tenri University in the western Japan city of Tenri, includes 212 unknown poems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Myogi Shinto Shrine

Myogi Shrine at the eastern foot of Hakuunzan of Omote Myogi, surrounded by old cedar trees. The building of the shrine was built from the Hoei years to the second year of Horeki (1752). The Gods worshipped are the Nihon Buson, Hojutaishin, and Sugawara Michizane. It possesses the national cultural asset of Jizo Bosatsu Reigenki. A priest is seen in front of the shrine building.==Date:unknown, Place:Gunma, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number38‐64‐0]

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Nakanodake shrine in myogisan

Nakanodake Shrine is located at the south foot of Mt. Kondo (also called Nakanodake). The deities worshipped are Nihon Buson in the Hongu and Okuninushinomikoto in the Zengu. The remains of a destroyed torii can be seen in the centre, but the present shrine was restored in 1882, so the photo was taken before that time.==Date:unknown, Place:Gunma, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number9‐25‐0]

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Museum finds Yosa Buson painting missing since 1922

OTSU, Japan - A museum in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, shows a long-missing painting by Japanese poet and painter Yosa Buson (1716-1783) to the press on Sept. 24, 2014. The whereabouts of the painting, currently owned by a company in Singapore, had been unknown for 92 years. (Kyodo)