Yoshinaka Museum is a local history museum in Kiso Town, Nagano Prefecture, established in 1992 to preserve the legacy of Kiso no Yoshinaka and Tomoe Gozen. For the 2021 renovation, I developed the core concept and led the curatorial design as Creative Director, building the project together with exhibition director Masanobu Nishino.

With few historical texts describing Yoshinaka and Tomoe in detail, their true nature remains elusive—their reputations shifting across eras. Precisely because they are mysterious figures, I believed that artists' imagination and creation could generate new "authentic" archives. Contemporary artists were commissioned to create works inspired by legends, stories, and the landscapes of Kiso—to be presented as "new primary sources" for the museum. This was the concept I brought to the renewal.

The result is a space that evokes the unrecorded daily lives of these two figures—inviting each visitor to imagine their own relationship with Yoshinaka, Tomoe, and the town of Kiso.