ART

Spend a night at GOEMON HOUSE and view site-specific installations by renowned artists.

We hope you enjoy your stay.

Enoki Chu, "L.S.D.F 020"

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.

Yanagi Yukinori, "Bird in a Cage", 2018

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.

Haraguchi Noriyuki, "The relationship of Canvas bag and Ropes", 2017

This work is currently under maintenance

Kinoshita Soga Megumi no Masagoji" by Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada )

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.”