徳川一門 将軍家をささえたひとびと（江戸東京博物館） Tokugawa Clansmen: The People Who Supported the Shogunal Family (Edo Tokyo Museum)

 

4月から長い休館が予定されている江戸東京博物館で、休館前に行われた企画展は、この博物館らしい徳川家についての展覧会だった。

江戸幕府は、宗家の後継が絶えてしまった場合を想定していわゆる御三家を置いていた。その御三家を含めた徳川一門の流れをたどるという内容だった。

御三家の系譜、家康や吉宗など歴代将軍の肖像、紅葉山八講法会など行事の絵巻物、徳川斉順所用の鎧兜、天璋院所用の雛道具などが展示されていた。

前に同様の企画が行われていたことや、休館を間近に控えていたこともあってか、常設展示スペースの一部を使った企画展として行われていた。

しかし、しばらくこの博物館に来れなくなってしまうことを考えると、大々的な特別展として実施して欲しかった。

At the Edo-Tokyo Museum, which is scheduled to be closed for a long time from April, the special exhibition held before the museum was closed was an exhibition about the Tokugawa family, which is typical of this museum.

The Edo Shogunate had a so-called three-family house in case the successor to the Soke family disappeared. The content was to follow the flow of the Tokugawa Ichimon, including the three families.

The genealogy of the three families, portraits of successive shoguns such as Ieyasu and Yoshimune, picture scrolls of events such as the Koyoyama Hachikokai, armor helmets for the Tokugawa Nariyuki, and chick tools for the Tensho-in were exhibited.

It was held as a special exhibition using a part of the permanent exhibition space, probably because a similar project had been held before and the museum was about to be closed.

However, considering that I will not be able to come to this museum for a while, I wanted it to be held as a large-scale special exhibition.