Nogi Shrine Museum

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Permanent collection includes the personal writings of General Nogi as well as some clothing worn by the Nogi couple

A museum to a nationally esteemed hero of the Russo-Japanese War

This museum was founded in September 1916 at the shrine that commemorates the lives of the scholar-cum-warrior Maresuke Nogi and his wife Shizuko.
Here, can be found a gate made of a single Taiwan cypress some two meters in diameter and 3,000 years old and the museum, a house that Nogi lived in for approximately one year while orchestrating the siege of Port Arthur as General of the Third Army.
The museum, in the style of a classical Japanese storehouse, was built at the same time as the shrine, and houses personal writings and manuscripts that show the compassion and solicitude of General Nogi while he lived in the house. In addition, there are military effects that speak of the hardship that General Nogi and his officers and men underwent as well as materials and furnishings that speak of the lifestyle of the General and his wife.