By AYA NAGATANI/ Staff Writer
January 26, 2021 at 08:00 JST
This photo of politician Kinmochi Saionji taken when he was 34 is part of the collection of images of 4,500 imperial family members and others commissioned by Emperor Meiji around 1880. (Provided by the Imperial Household Agency’s Museum of the Imperial Collections)
Thousands of valuable artworks connected to the imperial family that are rarely seen by the public will be leased out to museums for free from April so they can be exhibited across Japan. [Read More]
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