【Discover the Feature Exhibition】 Gifts from the Lords

March 21st (Tue.) ~ May 21st (Sun.), 2023

Feature Exhibition Room 2

Military baton gifted to Noguchi Kazunari from Kuroda Nagamasa　(16 -17th centuries)

Many of the items in the Fukuoka City Museum's permanent collection have　beendonated by the people of Fukuoka City and other regions. We would like to once again thank everyone who donated valuable objects to the museum.

All collected items are first organized and researched to ensure that they are passed on to future generations properly and securely and that they are effectively used for exhibitions, study and other purposes.

While organizing and researching artifacts from families that were clansmen, families that ran businesses and families that served as village officials in the Fukuoka domain, we occasionally come across things that are said to have been gifted by feudal lords of the Fukuoka domain.

On such occasions, we often ask ourselves, "Why this item? Why this person? When and why was it given?” We try to find answers to these questions from related materials and sources.

In this exhibition, we display the actual items gifted by the feudal lords and introduce the real picture that we have gained through our research.

  

Saddle with mother-of-pearl inlay and designs of comma-shapes and arabesques (16th century)