Kamakura Literary Museum
The Museum of Literature Kamakura ( Jap. 文学鎌倉館 , Kamakura Bungakukan , English Kamakura Museum of Literature ) was born on 31 October 1985 in Kamakura opened. It is dedicated to writers who have lived, lived and worked in Kamakura and their literary products. In addition, the two-storey wooden structure houses the Kamakura city archive, although the second floor of the museum is not open to the public. The museum is currently run by the literary critic and comparativeist Kōichirō Tomioka.
Overview
The building was originally built by Margrave Toshitsugu Maeda in 1890 and burned down in 1910. The current museum building was rebuilt in 1936 by Toshinari Maeda in western style based on designs by Watanabe Eiji. After the war ended, it was initially used as a country house for the Japanese Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Eisaku Satō . In 1983 Toshitatsu Maeda donated the building to the city of Kamakura, which rebuilt the interior and opened it in 1985 as an archive and literature museum. In 2004 the building, which is located in a 600 m² rose garden, was declared a registered tangible cultural asset .
The museum has book collections from around 80 writers and manuscripts, letters and writings from writers, which are accessible online in two separate databases.
Structure of the exhibition
- Ground floor: Scholars from Kamakura
- First floor: Meiji period literature and writers of the time
- Second floor: Classical literature and Kamakura
- Third floor: literature from the Taishō and Shōwa periods and writers of the time
Characteristics
- Total area: 29,391.71 sqm
- Built-up area: 671.85 sqm
- Building floor area: 1,411.65 sqm
- Main building (3 floors) made of wood and partly reinforced concrete.
- Outbuilding (2 floors) made of reinforced concrete.
Head of the museum
- Nagai Tatsuo (1985-1990), writer
- Shimizu Motoyoshi (1990-2004), writer and haiku poet
- Yamauchi Shizuo (2004–2012), fourth son of Satomi Ton
- Kōichirō Tomioka (since 2012), literary critic and comparativeist
literature
- Museum leaflet, Japanese
Web links
- Literature Museum website (Japanese)
- 主 な ゆ か り 文学 者 List of 80 Kamakura-related writers (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ご あ い さ つ . Kamakura Bungakukan, 2012, accessed December 29, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ 当 館 の 歴 史 . Kamakura Bungakukan, 2012, accessed December 29, 2016 (Japanese, with illustrations).
- ↑ 鎌倉 文学 館 資料 検 索 . Kamakura Bungakukan, 2012, accessed December 29, 2016 (Japanese, first link for book collections, second link for manuscripts and materials).
Coordinates: 35 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ N , 139 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E