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Meiji-mura is an open-air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architecture of the Meiji period (1868-1912), a time when Japan opened its doors to the outside world by absorbing and assimilating Western culture and technology.
picture: The entrance to Meiji Mura - much like Japan's version of Greenfield Village
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Meiji Mura is one of Japan's several outstanding open air museums. It displays over fifty buildings from the Meiji Period, the era which followed the end of Japan's feudal age in 1868 and lasted until Emperor Meiji's death in 1912. The period and its architecture are characterized by a strong influx of Western concepts and techniques.
Even though the Meiji Period ended less than a century ago, only a few contemporary buildings are surviving in Japan today, as most of them were lost in the war or due to city redevelopment.
Buildings from across Japan and as far away as Hawaii and Brazel were relocated to Meiji Mura in order to preserve the period's architectural and cultural heritage.