Fukagawa Edo Museum

The Fukagawa Edo Museum is a museum of old Edo in the former Fukagawa ward (now Kōtō ward) of Tokyo, Japan.

Fukagawa Edo Museum in Koto, Tokyo

It consists of a large, covered, life-size replica of a Tokyo shitamachi neighborhood from around 1840, near the end of the Tokugawa period. It includes 11 buildings: houses, shops, a theater, a boathouse, a tavern, and a fire tower, all built using traditional techniques. Visitors can walk down the streets and enter the shops and houses. The lighting varies over time, to reproduce different times of day.[1][2][3]

The museum opened in 1986, six years after the Shitamachi Museum and seven years before the Edo-Tokyo Museum, all part of a national trend for building local history museums. The exhibits for all three were primarily designed by Total Media.[4]

human rights issues

On September 10, 2023, the museum will hold an event on October 15, 2023 titled “Oinari-san: The Faith and Food of the Common People of Edo”(おいなりさん~江戸庶民の信仰と食) We announced on Twitter that we will be inviting Inari sushi evangelist #Inariōji (Kazu Sakanashi) to be our instructor.[5] Then, on Twitter from September 15th to 16th, 2023, voices against inviting that person to be a lecturer spread. On September 19 2023, Arakawa Ward Councilor Eiji Kosaka tweeted, ``I called on the Koto Ward section chief not to yield to pressure and to not set a bad precedent by suppressing speech..[6] On September 21 2023, the museum tweeted that it would resume accepting applications for the event.[7]

Notes
  1. DK Eyewitness Tokyo, 2017, ISBN 146546512X, p. 76
  2. Simon Richmond, Jan Dodd, The Rough Guide to Tokyo, 2011, p. 62
  3. Tom Flannigan, Ellen Flannigan, Tokyo Museum Guide: A Complete Guide, 2012, ISBN 1462904246, p. 107
  4. Jordan Sand, Jordan, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects, University of California Press, 2013, ISBN 0520275667, p. 120
  5. https://twitter.com/edo_museum/status/1700667905879232744
  6. https://twitter.com/kosakaeiji/status/1703931124173652344
  7. https://twitter.com/edo_museum/status/1704715729483039100

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