| Toba Sea-Folk Museum (鳥羽市立海の博物館, Toba Shiritsu Umi no Hakubutsukan) is a museum dedicated to the area's fishing traditions in Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Having first opened as the private Sea-Folk Museum in 1971, the museum reopened in its current location in 1992, and in 2017 was reestablished as a public, municipal museum under its current name.[1][2] In 1998, the museum buildings, designed by Naitō Hiroshi, were included amongst the 100 Select Instances of Public Architecture (公共建築百選) by the then Ministry of Construction.[1] The collection, numbering some 61,840 items as of 31 March 2018,[1] includes some ninety wooden boats from all over Japan,[3] the nation's most comprehensive assemblage of materials relating to the Ama,[3] and a grouping of 6,879 pieces of Ise Bay, Shima Peninsula, and Kumano Sea Fishing Equipment that have been jointly designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.[4] The displays are organized around seven themes: traditions of sea-folk, sea-folk faith and festivals, sea pollution, Ama divers in Shima, fishing in Ise Bay, fishing in Shima and Kumano, and wooden boats and navigation.[5][6] |
