Twelve-tatami-mat room
This room was used for ordinary medical consultations. The pillars have sword cut scars, which are said to date back to the upheavals in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Folk crafts
Screen
The screen is a kind of furniture used as a partition in traditional Japanese houses.
[Archived at Ibaraki Prefectural Archives and Museums]
Medicine chest
The medicine chest is a chest with a lot of small drawers in which physicians and pharmacists put drugs. Each drawer was labeled with a drug description so that the appropriate drug could be easily found.
[Archived at Ibaraki Prefectural Archives and Museums]
Pharmacist’s mortar
The pharmacist’s mortar is a tool for finely grinding medicinal ingredients (herbs, roots, wood, animals, or minerals) to prepare herbal medicine.
[Archived at Ibaraki Prefectural Archives and Museums]
Balance scale
The balance scale is an apparatus for measuring the mass of an object by putting the object and counterweights into balance by leverage. The counterweights are called “fundo.”
[Archived at Ibaraki Prefectural Archives and Museums]