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Perhaps "the only museum of kites in the world."

It was opened in 1977 by Shingo Modegi, the first of the famous Western-style restaurant Taimeiken in Nihonbashi.

The first generation also launched the Japan Kite Association.

Currently, the second generation, Masaaki, is the director, and Koji, the third generation, who has a lot of media exposure such as television, is also involved.

It owns a large number of kites and kite-related materials, from Edo kites to kites around the world, and some of them are on display.

Since its founding, it has been exhibited on the 5th floor of Taimeiken's building at 1-12-10 Nihonbashi.

However, due to the redevelopment of Nihonbashi 1-chome, it was forced to relocate temporarily with Taimeiken.

Therefore, in November last month, the kite museum moved here to the second floor of the Muromachi NS Building, 1-8-3 Nihonbashi Muromachi.

It seems that they will be temporarily living here for about 5 years until the redevelopment work is completed.

The kites on the exhibition have changed since the 5th floor of Taimeiken, but this is because this new exhibition room is too bright and we are concerned about ultraviolet rays, so we take measures such as replacing the exhibition every season. During that time.

At the same time, the exhibition on the ceiling seems to be refraining from this time.

By the way, Taimeiken is scheduled to resume business in March next year at three houses in this building.

・・・ Then, we will show you the main kites and kite materials on display.

Thank you to Mr. Fukuoka, a kite museum.

『』 The inside is Mr. Fukuoka's explanation.

Craftsman of Edo kite making in the Taisho and Showa eras (1904 [1904]-1991 [1991]).

It was designated in Intangible Cultural Property, Taito-ku in 1988.

The large kite of "Yoshitsune Yabohi" at the beginning of the sentence is also drawn by Mr. Hashimoto.

In the middle of the Edo period, kites, which were transmitted from Kyoto and Osaka to Edo, were mainly semicircular and plain.

Later, ukiyo-e prints became popular in Edo, and it is said that a square-shaped picture kite was generated from the common people who wanted to fly a single ukiyo-e picture in the sky.

At the end of the Edo period, kites depicting warriors and actors' paintings, and wrapped in bamboo with thin Japanese paper, have been established as Edo's unique kites, and have been handed down to the present.

Yoshizo Hashimoto's father, Tokichi, was a craftsman who made goods sold to traditional event, and made carp streamers and fans, as well as kites.

Mr. Sadazo has been making kites in earnest since the age of 13 under Mr. Tomekichi, and has been making them using traditional techniques.

Hashimoto's kites are mainly square kites, and the process is paper pasted. → Drawing below → Coloring → Bone structure → It was in the order of threading, but the most important task was "Kite painting".

The feature is that when the kite soars into the sky, the face is large in the center so that the picture can be seen vividly, drawing a alba (bottle) and beard (beard), and the details such as hands and tools are rough It was to draw and make the whole bright coloring.

In the past, Edo kite craftsmen were in various places, including Shitaya and Asakusa, but Hashimoto was one of the last in Taito Ward.

At Higashi-Ueno 2-chome, Taito-ku, a monument to Yoshizo Hashimoto is erected as shown in the right part of the image above.

In Nagasaki, kites are called "hata".

"There is also a folding screen picture in Dejima in Nagasaki where Japanese and Dutch people fight with kites.

It's a fight kite and a thread.'

There are 120 kinds of Nagasaki kites.

The Nagasaki kite restored and produced by Akihiro Ogawa, the owner of the Hatta and Ogawa Hatta stores in Nagasaki, has been reproduced in a mini size by Osamu Okawauchi of Kyoto.

"(The pattern is said to be the signal flag of the ship, such as the Dutch ship and the Portuguese ship."

It is a kite made at the Kafu Utakobo in Nagoya.

"This is a work that must be displayed backwards.

The prototype has been made since the time of the Owari clan in the Edo period.

It's a kite for strong winds. If the wind is not strong, it won't fly.

It's a very difficult kite to fly, but it doesn't seem to be irresistible for flying kites."

It looks like a kite of enthusiasts.

It's very elaborate.

"In the past, I was going to geisha and fried on a brazier and playing.

It's amazing that even if it's small, bones can enter."

My legs are long.

It seems that norakuro, soldiers, demons, etc. are also depicted.

"These are not kites.

Maybe it wasn't left if I put it into a kite.

In the past, glue is rice, so it rotten or bites by rats.

That's why I don't have an old kite. Even if it comes out, it's just a bone.

Even if it is paper, no matter how strong it is, if you leave it for decades, it will be useless.'

It seems that the paper quality is not good, and the adhesives are kites and kite paintings from the age of rice grains are still alive.

A one-day ticket issued by the Tokyo Metropolitan Transportation Bureau in 1984 to commemorate the day of Tokyo residents.

What is depicted is a guy, a kite.

"As the samurai servant looked down at the samurai in a vigorous appearance from the high sky, the Edo kid must have cleared the resentment of the samurai society. Isn't it a masterpiece created by the fashionable and rebellious spirit of Edokko? "

In addition, the package of cigarettes from the Japan Monopoly Corporation era is a kite pattern, and the U.S. military kite (Box Kaito: oriental lamp kite [Andondako]) is explained.

・・・ Why don't you touch the various materials of kites and enjoy the world of kites?

1-8-3 Nihonbashi Muromachi NS Building 2F

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Exit B6 of Mitsukoshimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line and Hanzomon Line, and go back to the second floor of the third building.

Business hours 11:00 to 17:00

Closed Sunday and public holidays

Admission fee Adult 220 yen Elementary and junior high school students 110 yen

Click here for the homepage of Taimeiken, including the kite museum.

⇒　https://www.taimeiken.co.jp/