famous Novel literature award winners, Yasunari Kawabata. he has grown in Ibaraki city, u can view his photos and calligraphies at this memorial musium. no fee and experience in his room.

Small museum dedicated to author Kawabata Yasunari. Admission is free.

Museum closed without notice… All the way for nothing!

I came from Tenjinbashi in northern Osaka, "the birthplace of Kawabata Yasunari". This place is about a 20-minute walk from JR Ibaraki and Hankyu Ibaraki-shi stations, and there's a parking lot nearby. If possible, I recommend entering from "Moto-Ibaraki Ryokuchi", because there are lots of sights like shrines, historic sites, parks, and more… Keep going until you reach the front of the Youth Center. Next to it is the literary museum. Kawabata Yasunari-san, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, lost both parents and lived with grandparents from age 3 to 17 here in Ibaraki, and then the grandparents passed away too; it must have been lonely. Ibaraki City opened this Kawabata Yasunari Literary Museum in Showa 60 (1985), hoping that the town where the young Kawabata lived would become a hub for getting familiar with literature. Inside, the museum displays Kawabata's path in life along a chronology, belongings, manuscripts, a miniature of the residence, and more. Admission is free, but note that there are many zones where photography is prohibited. 「The Dancer」 is a fleeting romance between a 19-year-old student and a dancer from a troupe of traveling performers; apparently the name of the male traveling performer is the name of Kawabata's real father. Seeing the posters of Yoshinaga Sayuri-san and Yamaguchi Momoe-san brought back memories of my youth. I guess all kinds of life experiences come alive in a writer's stories. Impossible for someone like me who just lives a laid-back life😆

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I'd been meaning to go at least once, but every time I went it turned out to be a closed day so I never got the chance; finally I was able to see it. The main exhibits are about Kawabata Yasunari's life as a boy, and it's small in scale, but the exhibits are thoughtfully designed, including some large-scale ones like a model of the house Kawabata lived in as a boy.

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