Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Cultural center and concert hall in the 15th arrondissement, Paris, France.
The Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris is a cultural center and concert hall located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. The building spans multiple floors with exhibition spaces, a performance hall, and a specialized library dedicated to Japanese culture.
The project was agreed in 1982 when President François Mitterrand met Prime Minister Zenkō Suzuki in Japan. Construction, designed by Kenneth Armstrong and Masayuki Yamanaka, began in 1994 and was completed in 1997. The center was inaugurated on 13 May 1997 by President Jacques Chirac and Princess Sayako.
The center presents regular exhibitions of Japanese art and hosts traditional music performances for visitors. You can participate in workshops focused on practices such as origami and calligraphy.
The center is accessible near Bir-Hakeim metro station and operates from Tuesday through Saturday between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM. It is helpful to check in advance for special exhibitions or events during your visit.
The library on the fourth floor holds about 28,000 books and periodicals on Japanese humanities, social sciences and culture, freely readable on open shelves. It also keeps an old reissue of John Batchelor's An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, the first true dictionary of the Ainu language, highlighted during an October 2016 lecture on Japan's Ainu minority.
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