Fukagawa Edo Museum 40th Anniversary Exhibition

Special Exhibition: Building Edo, Conveying Edo

Fukagawa Edo Museum, Lecture Hall (Basement Level), Koto Ward, Tokyo

November 12 (Thu) – November 23 (Mon, Public Holiday), 2026 | 9:30–17:00 (Last Admission at 16:30)

Closed: 2nd and 4th Monday of each month *No closures during the exhibition period

Adults: 400 yen; elementary, junior high, and high school students (or equivalent): 50 yen (included in the admission fee for the permanent exhibition galleries)

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Please enjoy comparing the full-scale *nagaya* (tenement house) at the museum with the 1:10 scale model created by Hiroshi Miura.

Exhibited items
1/10 scale: Row houses (*nagaya*), subdivided row houses, guard station (*jishinban*), fire-watch tower, watchman’s hut, and street stall (*yatai*)
1/20 scale: Boat inn (*funayado*), roofed pleasure boat (*yanebune*), and *chokabune* (a type of slender, traditional Japanese boat)

Koto City Fukagawa Edo Museum Special Exhibition Special Exhibition Flyer

Special Exhibition: Hello, Ichiyo-san - Recreating the World of Ichiyo Higuchi through Models and Photographs -

Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature, Yamanashi Prefecture

October 10th (Sat) - December 13th (Sun), 2026 9:00 - 17:00 (Last entry at 16:30)

Closed: Mondays (open on October 12 and November 23), Tuesday, October 13, and Tuesday, November 24

Adult: 330yen/University Students: 220yen, High School Students and younger/65 years of age or older: Free

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It has been 130 years since Ichiyo Higuchi passed away at the age of 24 in 1896 (Meiji 29). Why not visit the Meiji-era home where Ichiyo lived—and which she depicted in her works?

This exhibition features three models created at 1/20 scale by cypress-wood craftsman Hiroshi Miura: Ichiyo's home in Hongo-Maruyama-Fukuyama-cho, and the settings for her stories "Otsugomori" (The Last Day of the Year) and "Nigorie" (Troubled Waters and Muddy Bay). Accompanying these models are approximately 40 black-and-white pinhole photographs taken by Mieko Tadokoro using a camera of her own making, capturing the interiors of these structures. The exhibition brings to life—in three dimensions—the atmosphere of the Meiji-era homes Ichiyo inhabited and portrayed, as well as the daily lives of the people who lived there.

Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature Official Website Art exhibition flyer

Hiroshi Miura was born in 1926 to a family of bath tub craftsmen in Asakusa, inheriting the techniques of his father and grandfather who was a shipwright, and created cypress baths and buckets under the name of "Miura Bath Factory". With the passage of time, the demand for wooden bath tubs decreased, and during trial and error to make products other than bath tubs, he started making models of Japanese-style boats in his spare time. It was a pity that the type of ship that he had been familiar with since he was a child would disappear, and he wanted to somehow preserve it.