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Yokote Masuda Manga Museum Renewal
A full-scale manga museum that conveys the charm and passion of manga through original drawings
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The Manga no Kura Exhibition Room, which houses over 200,000 original drawings, preserves and manages them in an appropriate environment and makes them available to the public.
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An information counter with a back panel made up of manga frames. An entrance to the world of manga.
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Based on the concept of "attractive collection," the archiving of the original drawings can be seen through the glass, and the archived "digital original drawings" can be viewed in high definition on the touch panel display.
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The Slope Gallery is a space where you can view original artworks by 74 permanent artists, located around the symbolic tree that has been there since before the renovation.
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The "Frame Shelf," which mimics the layout of manga frames, uses original drawings and graphics to explain manga culture, the museum's activities, and the manga production process.
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The walls of the Manga Cafe are covered with autographs and illustrations by manga artists, so you can enjoy a different look every time you visit.
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The facility incorporates features that fuse manga and reality, such as a "Komawari table" and an "onomatopoeia bench" (bottom left and right photos provided by Leman Co., Ltd.)
Photo by Yuriko Tsuchida
About the Project
| Overview | The Manga Museum, which was located in a corner of the complex, has been expanded and renovated to cover the entire building. It has been transformed into a full-fledged manga museum, housing over 200,000 original manga drawings (original manuscripts) and including a storehouse to prevent deterioration and loss. This facility allows visitors to enjoy the medium of manga as they move between the world of manga and the real world. |
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| Issues/Themes | Our goal is to create a facility that will promote the appeal of manga both domestically and internationally by improving the storage environment and supporting the archiving of original drawings, in order to preserve these precious, one-of-a-kind original drawings for future generations. |
| Space Solution/Realization | The Manga Storehouse Exhibition Room has been established as a modern storehouse in Masuda, Yokote City, a town with storehouses, to store, manage and display manga originals. The storage environment is kept constant 24 hours a day to prevent deterioration of the originals, and the activity of "preserving" and "utilizing" the originals as an "attractive storehouse" is itself made visible as part of the exhibits, allowing visitors to feel the importance of the originals in the storehouse and their value as a cultural resource of manga. In addition, while being particular about being an "art museum," and being conscious of creating a space with a solemn atmosphere, the museum also combines real "objects" in the real world with the various mechanisms and rules that make up manga, and sprinkles elements of manga throughout the museum, creating mechanisms that allow visitors of all ages to enjoy the world of manga. |
| Design for Environment | Cultural property Preservation Planning: We have taken care to reduce the deterioration of the original manga drawings by maintaining a constant temperature and humidity air environment, and by using interior materials and neutral paper that emit less harmful substances. |
Basic Information
| Client | Yokote City |
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| Services Provided | Display Planning, Design, Layout, Production, Construction, Renovation Design |
| Project Leads at Tanseisha | Project Management: Masafumi Yuki, Akihiro Soga Design, Layout: Masashi Koyama, Asuka Sato Graphic Direction: Kenji Takahashi Production, Construction: Hisanari Sawabata, Yoshiaki Kikuchi Digital Spatial Production: Toru Kawamura Collection design: Yoshifumi Kobayashi, Tansei Institute Co., Ltd. Renovation Design: Manabu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Matsuda, Masayuki Kanai |
| Awards | "53rd Japan Sign Design Award" Bronze Award |
| Location | Akita Prefecture |
| Opening Date | May 2019 |
| Website | http://manga-museum.com/ |
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Design, Layout
Masashi Koyama
We aim to create perspectives that stimulate children's curiosity and spaces that provide an opportunity to explore questions. We want to provide a place that draws out the appeal of cultural resources from various angles, fosters empathy through exhibition design, and sends a message to the future.
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