THE HIRASE CONCHOLOGICAL MUSEUM AND MR. Y. HIRASE, PRESIDENT. 
The museum is situated next door south of the Kyoto Zoo in Okazaki Park, across the clear, calm waters 
of the canal that comes from Lake Biwa, the largest lake in the Empire. 
The buildings command very picturesque view: — from the north windows upstairs, we can see the Zoo and 
the Kyoto Commercial Museum below; when we look up, our eyes meet beautiful Mt. Hiei, the spire of Kurodani 
Temple, and the splendid red colored gates of the “Otemmon”, the principal gates of Taikyoku Temple; the 
south windows open to the beautiful garden attached to the museum ; the Higashi-Yama hills beyond are splen- 
didly covered and decorated with new green, and the Miyako Hotel and the roofs of Chionin Temple peep out of the 
green branches on the hill side. 
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