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[Floor Guide]
Museum Shop
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Visitors will find the museum shop in the sunlit area on the left side of the entrance. The shop sells special museum goods, mostly books and souvenirs.
The museum shop also sells limited-edition souvenirs on special themes during temporary exhibitions.
Don't miss the chance!
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Apron
Vinyl Black (1,417 yen [incl. tax])
Cotton Red/ Black (1,050 yen each [incl. tax])
The black vinyl apron is well crafted, with adjustable straps and a museum logo printed on the chest. The other apron, woven from fine cotton, comes in both red and black. Choose the type to suit your purpose. The vinyl apron is best if you need something sturdy, and the cotton apron is machine-washable.
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Hikifuda (handbill) Memorandum
Type: five types
Price: 315 yen each (incl. tax)
These memo pads are decorated as hikifuda, the historical equivalents of our present-day handbills. Hikifuda advertisements were first printed in the Edo Period and reached their heyday later during the Meiji and Taisho Eras. The shop names in the advertisements are blanked out to provide memo space.
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Kokotsu characters Mousepad
Type: three types
Price: 945 yen each (incl. tax)
The museum logo is  , or "see" in the Kokotsu characters (Yin writing: ancient Chinese characters from the Yin Dynasty, inscribed on bones and tortoise shells). As the character is an ideograph, its meaning can be easily guessed when it is seen. Changing today's Chinese characters into Yin writings, one can also figure out their structure and origin.
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Gutenberg's 42-line Bible T-shirt
Color: White, Black / Size: L, M, S
Price: 2,100 yen each (incl. tax)
Gutenberg is said to be the founder of modern letterpress printing. The T-shirt is decorated with the museum's precious holding, one of the pages of the Gutenberg bible printed around 1455.
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Original Post Cards
We carry copies of cards printed in the Suruga typeface—an important cultural property. Visitors can purchase postcards rendering motifs of 54 articles from the museum collection, and postcards using various printing technologies such as letterpress printing and relief intaglio printing. The shop's repertoire will continue to grow in the future.
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