Muro Saisei Kinenkan Museum

This guide to the Muro Saisei Kinenkan Museum in Kanazawa opens on a single framed sheet of handwriting inside the entrance, and works backward to explain why it took its author so long to write it. Born on this spot in 1889 to a mistress named Haru, the boy was given away almost immediately, raised by another family, and taunted as a child for where he came from. He would not take the name Muro until he was formally adopted at seven, and never once met his birth mother. You'll walk the quiet garden rooms of the house built on the exact plot where his story began.