Osaka Museum of Housing and Living 9th floor
Exhibition Hall 1: Osaka in the Early Modern Period
Time travel back to Edo Period
Summer Festival Decorations
2. Tategu-ya Joinery Store・Komamono-ya Fancy Cosmetic Store
＜Tategu-ya Joinery Store＞
Tategu-ya joinery store on the left sold fittings such as doors, shōji paper-screen sliding doors, fusuma paper-covered sliding doors and ranma decorative transoms as well as decorative furniture such as byōbu decorative folding screens and tsuitate partitioning screens.
During the Tenjin Matsuri festival season, each store hangs manmaku ceremonial curtains, and displays byōbu decorative folding screens and tsukurimono ceremonial props while commercial goods otherwise occupying the storefront are all removed.
Joinery store’s tsukurimono is Hotei-san, who is a potbellied god of good luck, made of various Buddhist altar fittings.
The body of the Hotei-san is made of different-sized wood gongs cleverly assembled, which is wrapped around in Buddhist priest’s stole.
＜Komamono-ya Cosmetic Store＞
Komamono-ya cosmetic store on the right sold cosmetics and hair ornaments for women.
The “hen and chick” tsukurimono displayed in the storefront of the cosmetic store is made of various cosmetic implements.
The wings of parent chicken are made of combs with its body made of shell containers for rouge while the chick is made of cosmetic brushes.
Tsukurimono was often made of commercial goods actually sold at each store and worked as good advertisement.
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