The Shiki Museum

This is a literary museum, which was established to familiarize visitors with literature and Matsuyama City via the world of Masaoka Shiki. Among the 60,000 items valuable to modern Japanese literature, haiku, and tanka, is “Najimi-shu,” a compilation of haiku selected and hand-written by Shiki, which was long been considered as non-existent. The display in the permanent exhibition area is the replica of “Gudabutsu-an (Foolish Buddha’s Hermitage),” a hut Shiki and Natsume Soseki, his friend, lived in for about 50 days. Have a seat and imagine them debating on literature in the tatami-mat room.