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Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Obuse Town in Nagano Prefecture is a small town in northern Shinano known for its chestnut-based sweets, Edo-period merchant culture, and ties to the ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. The townscape of the wealthy merchants who flourished from the Edo to Meiji periods has been preserved...

Hokusai Museum (Obuse Town, Nagano Prefecture) Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) The Hokusai Museum is an art museum that preserves and exhibits materials and works related to the Edo period ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. Hokusai visited and stayed in Obuse in his later years, and the entire town has come to cherish Hokusai's footsteps.