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, “Caged Bird”. 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.”