Spend a night at GOEMON HOUSE and view site-specific installations by renowned artists.
We hope you enjoy your stay.
LSDF020, a group of works by Enoki Chu, is exhibited in the main room on the first floor. “Liberty C2H2,” a cannon stands in a pile of approximately 3 tons of cartridges collected from war sites all over the world along with the cast-iron machine guns modeled after the former Soviet Union’s AK-47 and the U.S. AR-15.
Also on the first floor of the main building is Yanagi Yukinori’s new work created in 2018, “Bird in a Cage”. The Japanese sword was found in an abandoned house on the island of Momoshima, where an islander who served in the Pacific War survived a sinking warship wearing only this one sword.
This work is currently under maintenance
Also on view is the ukiyoe “Kinoshita Soga Megumi no Masagoji” by Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada) , which depicts Ishikawa Goemon’s punishment for being boiled in a bath, a legend of the “Goemon Bath.”