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Yokohama Silk MuseumJapan

The Yokohama Silk Museum is a museum located in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan that covers the silk trade in Japan.

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The Yokohama Silk Museum is a museum located in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan that covers the silk trade in Japan. The museum displays silk kimono and covers the importance of Yokohama as a silk port. The objective of the museum is, according to its website: 1

To disseminate an understanding of the science and technology of silk production, display beautiful costumes for people to admire and promote the demand for silk. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Yokohama Silk Museum”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Yokohama Silk Museum is Textile museum in Yokohama, Japan, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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