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Kurashiki

City in Okayama prefecture, Japan; population (1995 est) 422,800. It is situated on the coast of the Seto Naikai (Inland Sea), and was formerly an important commercial centre and port serving the coastal trade. Kurashiki's main industries are the making of tatami and hanamushiro (types of Japanese matting), and, since the 1960s, heavy chemical, petrochemical, steel, and vehicle industries have been established in its coastal district, Mizushima.

The city has museums of art (with many Western masterpieces), archaeology, and folk crafts, and Edo-period merchant warehouses attract tourists.



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