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The Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Museum also acts as the local community center.
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A banner above the main entrance celebrates the forthcoming ¥10,000 note.
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The museum entrance. The Shibusawa display room is visible to the rear.
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Shibusawa’s statue, on the northern side of the museum building, looks out toward Mount Akagi.
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A spacious area is provided for the Shibusawa display. A curator is on hand to provide additional explanation, so visitors need not worry if they lack background knowledge.
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The large document at center shows Shibusawa’s ranking system for indigo farmers. Toward the top on the right side is an image of Odaka Junchū, who instructed Shibusawa in the Analects of Confucius.
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Shintaku (Oracle) written by Odaka is on the right. Other artifacts shown include a document penned by Tokugawa Yoshinobu and photographs from the mission to France.
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A recording of Shibusawa speaking. Visitors can listen to it on the second floor.
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Kawamoto San’yōdō proprietor Kawamoto Tetsurō with his shop’s array of Shibusawa souvenirs. Mini-towels are designed to look like banknotes, but the “currency” listed on them is the spring onion, a well-known agricultural product of Fukaya.
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Another statue of Shibusawa Eiichi stands outside Fukaya Station.
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