The Hakata Gion Yamakasa exhibition has been held almost every year since the museum opened. This year marks the 21st exhibition and features paintings that show what the festival was like from the middle of the Edo era until the Tokugawa shogunate ended. The Yamakasa of yesteryear was much different from the modern festival we know today, and the exhibition includes a panel display of a folding screen depicting the route of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa parade, the oldest known painting of Yamakasa.
• 6/21(Tue.) ~ 8/28 (Sun.)
• 9:30~17:30 (last admission 17:00)
• Open until 20:00 on Fri., Sat., Sun., and hol from 7/22 to 8/26, and on 8/15 (Mon) , admission until 19:30.
• Closed: Mon. (open if Mon. is a hol. and closed next day), 8/16
• Admission fee: ¥200, college & HS ¥150, free for under JHS
• Fukuoka City Museum
• 2F 3-1-1 Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka
• http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/exhibition/581/