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The Shôkoshûseikan is a museum and archive in [[Kagoshima]] closely associated with the [[Shimazu clan]] and the history of [[Satsuma province]].

The Shôkoshûseikan is a museum and archive in [[Kagoshima]] closely associated with the [[Shimazu clan]] and the history of [[Satsuma province]].

The main hall (''honkan'') of the museum was originally built in [[1865]] in accordance with the dying wishes of former ''daimyô'' [[Shimazu Nariakira]] (d. [[1858]]) as one of a group of factories, originally called the Shûseikan. The main hall is today designated an [[Important Cultural Property]]. The complex originally also included reverberating furnaces, blast furnaces, a smithy, a foundry, and a glass workshop; the remains of some of these structures are still visible today.

The main hall (''honkan'') of the museum was originally built in [[1865]] in accordance with the dying wishes of former ''daimyô'' [[Shimazu Nariakira]] (d. [[1858]]) as one of a group of factories, originally called the Shûseikan. At its peak, the factory employed over two thousand workers.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 202.</ref> The main hall is today designated an [[Important Cultural Property]]. The complex originally also included reverberating furnaces, blast furnaces, a smithy, a foundry, and a glass workshop; the remains of some of these structures are still visible today.

The building was established as a museum in 1923; the [[Bakumatsu period]] industrial history of the area is a particular prominent theme of the museum, but its collections, roughly 10,000 items in total, also include many objects from the Shimazu family collections, as well as examples of traditional ceramics and objects related to the [[1863]] [[Anglo-Satsuma War]] (also known as the Bombardment of Kagoshima).

The building was established as a museum in 1923; the [[Bakumatsu period]] industrial history of the area is a particular prominent theme of the museum, but its collections, roughly 10,000 items in total, also include many objects from the Shimazu family collections, as well as examples of traditional ceramics and objects related to the [[1863]] [[Anglo-Satsuma War]] (also known as the Bombardment of Kagoshima).

*Pamphlet available on-site.

*Pamphlet available on-site.

*[http://www.shuseikan.jp/eng/index.html Shoko Shuseikan official website] (English)

*[http://www.shuseikan.jp/eng/index.html Shoko Shuseikan official website] (English)

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