ABSTRACT This paper traces the history of a Japanese-funded annex to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam over the past twenty-five years. The analysis focuses on three key years in the building’s history: 1991, 1999, and 2015. Critically examining public debate and media coverage of the building in contemporary Dutch- and Japanese-language sources, I argue that changing claims and public perceptions of Japan reflected the country’s shifting economic fortunes and international position during the period. The sources consistently framed the Japanese-designed building within a language of dreams. However, the dreams gradually transformed from desires and nostalgic projections to sleepiness and inactivity. Japan, and the annex as its symbolic embodiment, remained a ‘place of dreams’, but the nature of those ‘dreams’ changed dramatically over the period studied.

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日本梦：黑川纪章对梵高博物馆的附属及其后来的重新占用

摘要 本文追溯了过去 25 年来日本资助的阿姆斯特丹梵高博物馆附属建筑的历史。分析侧重于该建筑历史上的三个关键年份：1991、1999 和 2015 年。 批判性地审查当代荷兰语和日语资料中对该建筑的公共辩论和媒体报道，我认为不断变化的日本主张和公众看法反映了在此期间，该国的经济命运和国际地位不断变化。消息来源始终如一地用一种梦想的语言来构筑日本设计的建筑。然而，梦逐渐从渴望和怀旧的投射转变为困倦和无所事事。日本，以及作为其象征化身的附属建筑，仍然是一个“梦想之地”，