Kobe Shuushinkan “Hina Dolls Exhibition 2023” in Higashinada-ku, Kobe

Kobe Shu-shin-kan (Higashinada-ku, Kobe) will hold its annual “Hina Dolls Exhibition 2023” from February 25 to March 3. Admission is free.

The exhibition has been held every year at Kobe Shu-shin-kan, the brewery of Fukuju, a Japanese sake, but it has been postponed for three years due to measures to prevent new coronavirus infection.
The exhibition will feature hina dolls owned by the Kaijima family, one of the “Three Families of Chikuho,” a family that established the coal mining industry in Chikuho, Fukuoka, and marked an era in the region.
This exhibition came to be held after the family donated the dolls to Kobe Shushinkan in 2009. The dolls were made by Takashi Kaijima, the third head of the Takamiya Kaijima Honke family in Takamiya, Fukuoka, which began with Kaijima Kazo, the youngest brother of the family’s founder Taisuke Kaijima, who commissioned Maruya (now Maruhei Ohki Doll Store), a well-established doll store in Kyoto, to make them for his first daughter Reiko’s Dolls Festival.
Heizo Oki V created the doll in 1933. The traditional techniques used in this work, which is now a valuable cultural asset, are scattered throughout. According to Kyoto’s Maruhei Ohki Doll Store, the dolls are a gorgeous set of 15 dolls, and all the doll implements, from folding screens and other room decorations to front decorations, cosmetic tools, baskets, and court dolls, are custom-made with family crests scattered throughout.
The museum’s website says, “Don’t miss the Hina Dolls, which are displayed in the luxurious space of the Kobe Shu-shin-kan Hall, which has a gentle atmosphere with the warmth of wood, including a large beam from the Edo period. ＜
The KAISHIMA family was so prosperous that they were called the “King of Coal Mine”.
I would love to show my own child the authentic dolls

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Period

February 25 (Saturday) – March 3 (Friday), 2023

Place

Kobe Shushinkan Hall
(1-8-17 Mikagezukacho, Higashinada-ku, Kobe)
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Hours

11:00 – 16:00 (until 15:00 on the last day)

Admission

Free of charge

Inquiries

tel 078-841-1121

• Shu-shin-kan Official Website https://www.shushinkan.co.jp/news/%e9%9b%9b%e4%ba%ba%e5%bd%a2%e5%b1%952023.html