Shimada Museum of Arts

Shimada Museum of Arts, Kumamoto Overview

A small private museum holding the largest collection of Miyamoto Musashi material anywhere: his swords, his calligraphy, his ink paintings and the self-portrait reproduced in almost every book about him. Where Reigando gives you the place, this gives you the objects, and the two together make a coherent half day out west that most visitors to Kumamoto never do.