"Berabou" Edo Taito Taiga Drama Museum Edo Custom Doll Display(Exhibition ended)

Saturday, February 1 - Monday, March 31, 2025

Edo custom dolls from the Shitamachi Museum (formerly Shitamachi Fuzoku Museum) will be on display for a limited time.

Dolls: Juzaburo Tsujimura, Accessories: Ichiro Hattori, Buildings: Hiroshi Miura

"Berabou" Edo Taito Taiga Drama Museum Website

Hiroshi Miura was born in 1926 to a family of bath tub craftsmen in Asakusa, inheriting the techniques of his father and grandfather who was a shipwright, and created cypress baths and buckets under the name of "Miura Bath Factory". With the passage of time, the demand for wooden bath tubs decreased, and during trial and error to make products other than bath tubs, he started making models of Japanese-style boats in his spare time. It was a pity that the type of ship that he had been familiar with since he was a child would disappear, and he wanted to somehow preserve it.

In 1980, he was commissioned to create a geisha house for the "Yoshiwara" exhibition in which Mr. Jusaburo Tsujimura worked on geisha dolls. At the exhibition held at a gallery in Kyobashi the following year, along with Mr. Tsujimura's dolls and Mr. Ichiro Hattori's gadget, the intricacy of the house became a big topic.

After that, he restored houses and ships in the Edo period to a scale of 1/10, and produced more than 100 works in the 38 years until his death.

Passed away in June 2019. 92 years old.