Brief Message from the Heart Museum

Brief Message from the Heart Museum is located right across the street from Maruoka Castle. The museum was opened in 2015. Since Japan has a culture to expressing a message in one stroke of brief writing which contains a lot of meanings. The museum displays masterpiece of prize-winning brief letters from a letter contest held in Japan started in 1993. The motif of this museum is a writing style of Honda Shigetsugu who was a vassal of Tokugawa Shogunate. Shigetsugu often wrote a message to his family in his time in a brief writing style which conveys a lot of messages. Later this style of writing was much recognized as a beautiful form of art. In this museum you can see a large collection of brief messages collected from the past for more than 20 years. Please feel how those letters expressed within 40 count of letters can convey one's thoughts and feelings to your heart. In a section called Fumino Taki " Waterfall of letters " displays prize-winning works in 10-meter wide screens with impression of waterfall in the background. Up on its top floor is a observation room where you can command a nice view of the townscape around Maruoka Castle. There is a movie introducing seasonal attraction of the city shown in the room with a large screen. From time to time they make a project of special exhibition.

( Trans-word+ : TGM Japan Guide )