鎌倉文学館〜Kamakura Museum of Literature

2012/11/10

鎌倉文学館も長谷寺の近くにあります。

 Kamakura Museum of Literature is close to Hase Temple.

門

The entrance

 門から文学館までの間にある切り通し
We walked through a cut(kiritooshi) like the following.

There are many cuts in Kamakura. "Cuts or Kiritooshi" 

are roads dug into hills or mountains; they are like short tunnels.

ここには鎌倉ゆかりの作家達の文学資料が展示されています。

元々は旧前田侯爵家の別邸として1936年に建てられましたが、

その後鎌倉市に寄贈され、1985年から一般公開されているそうです。

The museum contains materials about writers who lived in Kamakura. This house was built in 1936 as a villa for the noble Maeda Family. However, it was donated to Kamakura City in 1983, and it was opened to the public in 1985. 

文学館前の庭にはバラ園もあります。

There is a rose garden on the grounds in front of the museum.

春の雪 (Spring Snow)

三島由紀夫の小説”春の雪”にちなんで命名されたそうです。

A famous Japanese writer named Yukio Mishima described a village that was modeled from the house in his novel "Spring Snow", so there is a rose named after that. 

文学館では12/9まで生誕820年 源実朝展が催されています。

来る時に見た切り通しを反対側から見たところ

You can see the cut from the opposite side when you return to the gate.