Kigumi Museum - Shinjuku City, Tokyo

박주현

목조건물의 조인트를 직접 해체하고 조립할 수 있게 진열되어있습니다.
어려서 레고 좋아했던 어른이라면 충분히 즐길
수 있습니다.
일본어를 할 줄 안다면 주인아저씨의 자세한 설명을 들을 수 있습니다.
일본어를 못 하더라도 조인트의 구조를 보는 자체로 즐겁습니다.
주인 아저씨는 훌륭한 선생님입니다. 자신의
기술과 지식을 아낌없이 알려주고 나누려고 하시더라고요.
도쿄여행의 마지막에 가장 좋은 경험을 했습니다.

Andrew Wicks

This has been on my wishlist of places to visit for close to a year, but I was never in Tokyo on a weekday. Absolutely worth it, one of the top three museums I've been to in Tokyo. A must see for anyone interested in carpentry, joinery, traditional architecture or even types of trees.

There was a lot of hands on stuff, you could take apart all the joins and see the relationship between the simple and the complex ones. They had a line up of a simple rotating joint and a simple dovetail as a way of illustrating how the two combined to form illusory curved blind dovetails.

They also showed an arrangement of small toys using the same techniques, which you can try to take apart. This includes a three step puzzle box with the shaved parquet veneer.

In the second room there is a lot of stuff related to auxiliary construction practices and woodworking. The process of constructing a wattle and daub wall. Traditional door fittings and hardware, Oni faced metal post ends, a model showing how copper roofing is out together, a traditional lock that they showed me how to use, a long board showing all the different stages in making a finished lacquer product.

Something I didn't pay much attention to, but I'm sure will interest many people are the wood flitches, and tree cross sections. Every single variety of useful wood in Japan is on display as both a panel and a log. You can feel the texture, look at the grain. Excellent resource for interior design.

It was a lot of fun, definitely worth the wait. The owner established it to help promote interest in Japanese joinery and construction methods. I sincerely hope that it works, I'd love to see more of this type of thing in the future.

Paco Vazquez

This is a small yet phenomenal collection of examples of traditional Japanese joinery, woodworking techniques, and lumber examples. Mr. Tanikawa, the museum director, has put together an interactive map exhibit to play around and learn about traditional joinery, it’s just a joy. Please visit and make a donation, we can promote and preserve this beautiful tradition.

佐山祐司

東京メトロ東西線早稲田駅から早稲田通りを高田馬場駅方面へと進んだ穴八幡宮北参道鳥居に隣接するビルの３Ｆにある私設博物館である。入館料は無料で基本的には火〜木曜日が開館日であるが月に一度程度ではあるがイベント開催日で土曜日開館日がある。展示室は２部屋で受付のある第１展示室で訪問日時と名前住所を記入し受付を済ます事で入館となる。第１展示室は木造の精密な法隆寺五重塔や薬師寺三重塔模型、三重塔大型木組みやパズル感覚で実際に分解、組み立て出来る木組み等ある程度の年齢の子供なら楽しめる。第２展示室は鬼瓦や穴八幡宮の鼓楼模型や和釘等左官関連の展示がある。然程広くはない施設ではあるが非常に興味深い資料が多く面白かったので入館料の代わりに1,000円寄附をさせて頂いたが返礼としてタネと呼ばれる名札を記念に丸太に貼らせて貰える。木組みと呼ばれる日本の伝統的木造建築を学びたい方にはお薦め出来る場所である。

Timur Valiev

Brilliant small museum run by and expert and enthusiast of traditional wood building technologies.
You can interact with most of the models and it's magical!

冷泉静

東西線早稲田駅から5〜6分広くはありませんが、木組みの模型が20程あり小型の物は実際にバラしと組み立てを体験できます。組んだ状態を見てどう組んであるのかを想像しバラして正解を見る、見た目より内部は複雑でなかなか奥が深いです。

偶然見つけ涼みたくて入ったのに大当たり引きました、イベント等もあるそうで館員さんはほっておいてくれますが聞けば何でも教えてくれます。一応入館無料ですがさり気なく寄付の箱がおいてあり、自分は入れずに出てしまいましたが次行った時は入れようかなと思います。

パズルキャストって知恵の輪有るんですがあれを楽しめる方なら行って損はないと思います、詳細はHPでご確認を。

h a

日本の伝統的な建築技法の木組みについての博物館。
大部屋二つのミニ博物館だが展示内容はかなり濃く、複雑極まる木組みの実例を体感しながら知る事が出来る。
見た目からは分からない、実際に組んでみても理解出来ない様なトンデモ技術の木組みを是非見てもらいたい。

Aki Pudas

Nice small Japanese wood joinery museum. You can find handmade Japanese woodworking joineries. The staff was very nice and helpful. They spoke a bit of English, but with the help of Google Translate, there were no problems at all communicating."