The Otsuka Museum of Art in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, drew a lot of attention last year when popular singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu held his first live TV performance there on Dec. 31 for NHK¡¯s year-end ¡°Kohaku Uta Gassen¡± (¡°Red and White Song Battle¡°) music contest.
Many people, especially young women, visit the museum to take ¡°instagenic¡± pictures of its 1,082 ceramic reproductions of the world¡¯s masterpieces. The ceramic board replicas were produced at a factory in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, famous for its Shigaraki ware.
Yonezu, a Tokushima native, played in the museum¡¯s Sistine Hall, which is filled with elaborate, life-sized replicas of the works Michaelangelo painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, including ¡°The Last Judgement¡± and ¡°The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Plants.¡±
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