Shoko Shuseikan Museum
Shoko Shuseikan Museum Renovation Notice
Shoko Shuseikan Museum will be closed for a full renovation until October, 2024. The museum annex will remain open to the public during the renovation work.
We appreciate your cooperation and understanding on this matter.
Follow the course of the Shimadzu family over 800 years, and see how the international relations they forged led to the development of industrial modernisation in Kagoshima, Kyushu, and across Japan.
Tsurugane Shrine
The Shimadzu family ruled over southern Kyushu for a period of 700 years from 1185 until the founding of the modern Japanese government in 1869. Tsurugane Shrine was established close to Kagoshima Castle in the same year and was moved to its present location next to Sengan-en in 1917.
The heads of each generation of the Shimadzu family are enshrined here along with their family members.
Shinto rites are still performed here today by members of the Shimadzu family to pay respects to their ancestors and pray for the prosperity and wellbeing of the people of Kagoshima.
Shimadzu Satsuma Kiriko Glassworks
The production of Satsuma Kiriko was started at Sengan-en in 1851 by the 28th head of the Shimadzu family, Nariakira. With the death of Nariakira in 1858, and the destruction of the workshops during the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, production of Satsuma Kiriko was stopped and the glass blowing and cutting techniques were lost for over 100 years.。