Eisei-Bunko Museum

Eisei Bunko is home to the art and craft heirlooms of the Hosokawa family, Lord of Higo Kumamoto. The Hosokawas are one of the three prestigious daimyo families that assumed the post of Kanrei (deputy shogun) in the Muromachi shogunate.

There are four different themes in the museum each year. The displayed collection includes swords, armour, tea artifacts and beautiful, Noh- theatre costumes.

Hosokawa house and Eisei library Hosokawa house abbreviation ancestors (after the modern times) you can view.

The present Hosokawa house starts in the age of civil wars rattan filial piety (幽 斎) as the first generation as for Hosokawa house as one of Muromachi shogunate three tube territories.

Generation after generation Hosokawa house which is superior in the literary and military arts both roads, listing many military exploit. The time of 3 generation loyal interests could give the Higo Kumamoto 54 grain screen, like outside power reached to the last days of the shogunate as Daimyo.

Hours : 10a- 4:30p Tu- Sa

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Contact Information

Eisei-Bunko Museum
1-1-1, Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku
1120015 Tokyo

Tel. +81339410850

http://www.eiseibunko.com