Collection
The collection of the Tokugawa Museum consists of around thirty thousand treasures of the Mito Tokugawa family – Samurai collection – and thirty thousand documents stored in Shokokan Libary.
Among many museums in Japan, this is the only museum where good number of historical materials of a daimyo (feudal lord) family, especially those of Mito Tokugawa family are found.
- Tokugawa Ieyasu – Samurai King (16c. – 17c.)
- Samurai armar (17c.)
- Short coat for formal kimono “Tsujigahana” (16c. – 17c.)
- Tokugawa Mitsukuni – Wise ruler loved by the people (17c.- 18c.)
- Samurai armar (17c.)
- Knit Stockings (17c.)
- Tokugawa Nariaki – who paved the way for the modern era (19c.)
- Samurai armar (19c.)
- Jeweled Headdress (19c.)
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu – the Last Shogun (19c.-20c.)
- Relics of Christians
- Pyx with Bushclovers (16c. – 17c.)