Goto-no-Kumo Nizo Yamamoto Museum

On display at this museum are works of Nizo Yamamoto, the art director of “Castle in the Sky”, “Grave of the Fireflies”,“Princess Mononoke”, “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” and other renowned works. The museum opened in July 2018 in Goto city, Nagasaki pref, the birthplace of Yamamoto.  A samurai  house named “Matsuzono-tei”, built in 1863, close to the end of Japan’s samurai age, has been remodeled into this museum. You can feel and learn the history and the culture of Goto Islands here. Inside, you see anime backgrounds painted by Yamamoto, landscape paintings made by the art director, who grew up in the grandeur of Goto’s nature, and many other exhibits. To fit nicely with the atmosphere of the samurai  house, the exhibits are framed on Japanesque folding
screens. Also, in the “Room of the Sky and Clouds,” you can watch short animations* seated on a sofa. (*The contents may vary.)