opened in Shichinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, in 1994 as a part of Roadside Station Shichinohe. The collection comprises four main areas: three rooms with paintings by four artists from or otherwise associated with Shichinohe, namely (1908âÂÂ1999) and fellow yà Âga artist (1904âÂÂ1983), Nihonga artist (1876âÂÂ1966), and (1892âÂÂ1979), who specialised in painting horses; the Lamp Hall, with its nucleus in Takayama Uichi's collection of nineteenth-century western and Meiji lamps; the Ema Hall, with folk artefacts centred upon ema, hagoita, and other related items from nearby and that have been designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties; and a Spanish Folk Ceramic Hall.