Chuya Nakahara Museum

entrance of the Chuya Nakahara Museum, Yamaguchi Pref.
memorial of the poet, Chuya Nakahara





There is a unique museum comemorting the poet Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937)
in the central Yuda Onsen (famous hot spring resort town), Yamaguchi Pref.,
650 miles Southeast of Tokyo and 240 miles of Kyoto.

Inside of the building, there are numerous of his writings, photos and documents
on the poet being displayed and full of memories of the poet who is compared
to the French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891).