Aki City Calligraphy Museum

The Calligraphy Museum, which has been attracting attention from all over Japan as a "Hall of Fame for Calligraphy," is located at the ruins of Aki Castle in Doi Kakuchu. The Calligraphy Museum opened in October 1982 as the first public museum in Japan to specialize in calligraphy. Calligraphy has been very popular in Aki City since the ancient feudal era, and from the late Taisho period to the Showa period, it produced many excellent calligraphers, including Kawatani Ouun, the Shotei brothers, Teshima Yuukei, and Minami Fujo. In addition to exhibiting works representative of the Japanese calligraphy world, the museum also hosts national calligraphy exhibitions and special exhibitions, and has a wide selection of materials and books related to calligraphy. Why not enjoy calligraphy in the tense silence and the scent of ink?