Kikkawa Historical Museum

Kikkawa Historical Museum
Kikkawa Historical Museum
吉川史料館
General information
Address	2-7-3 Yokoyama
Town or city	Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Country	Japan
Coordinates	34°10′14″N 132°10′40″E / 34.170449°N 132.177689°E
Website
	Official website (ja)

Kikkawa Historical Museum (吉川史料館, Kikkawa Shiryōkan) is a museum of artefacts handed down by the Kikkawa clan, daimyō of Iwakuni Domain, in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located between the Kintai-kyō bridge and Iwakuni Castle, the museum's collection totals some seven thousand items, including materials from the Kamakura period, a painting attributed to Sesshū, and one National Treasure.^[1]^[2]

Highlights of the collection

Sword known as Kitsunegasaki (狐ヶ崎), from the Kamakura period (National Treasure)^[3]
Spring View from a Thatched Pavilion on the Lakeshore (紙本墨画淡彩湖亭春望図), traditionally attributed to Sesshū Tōyō; with an inscription (賛) by Tenyo Seikei (天与清啓), who journeyed twice on Japanese missions to Ming China, the second time with Sesshū accompanying^[2]^[4]
Gorgeous robe with a design of paths through the mountains, flowers, grasses, tortoises, and cranes (山道草花鶴亀文繡箔胴服), from the Momoyama period; said to have been bestowed upon Kikkawa Hiroie by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1587 after his campaign in Kyūshū^[5]
Kikkawa Family Documents (吉川家文書): 102 items dating from the Kamakura to the Edo period (Important Cultural Property);^[6] a further 32 items, plus a catalogue, from the Meiji period (Municipal Tangible Cultural Property)^[7]
Azuma Kagami: 48 volumes, from the Muromachi period (1522) (ICP)^[8]
Genkō Shakusho: 15 volumes, in the hand of Kikkawa Tsunemoto (吉川経基), from the Muromachi period (ICP)^[9]
Taiheiki: 40 volumes, in the hand of Kikkawa Motoharu, from the Muromachi period (1563–65) (ICP)^[10]

^ 吉川史料館について [About Kikkawa Historical Museum] (in Japanese). Kikkawa Historical Museum. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b 雪舟没後５００年特別展 [Sesshu, Master of Ink and Brush: 500th Anniversary Exhibition] (in Japanese). The Mainichi Newspapers. 2002. pp. 259, ix–x.
^ 太刀〈銘為次（狐ヶ崎）〉 [Old Documents of the Kikkawa Family] (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ 紙本墨画淡彩湖亭春望図 [Spring View from a Thatched Pavilion on the Lakeshore] (in Japanese). Yamaguchi Prefecture. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ 山道草花鶴亀文繡箔胴服 [Gorgeous robe with a design of paths through the mountains, flowers, grasses, tortoises, and cranes] (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ 吉川家文書 [Kikkawa Family Documents] (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ 市指定文化財一覧 [List of Municipal Cultural Properties] (in Japanese). Iwakuni City. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ 吾妻鏡〈四十七冊並ニ年譜一冊／〉 [Azuma Kagami] (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ 元亨釈書〈吉川経基筆／〉 [Genkō Shakusho (brushwork by Kikkawa Tsunemoto)] (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ 太平記〈吉川元春筆／〉 [Taiheiki (brushwork by Kikkawa Motoharu)] (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.