Literary Museum of Karuizawa, Literary museum in Nagakura, Japan

The Literary Museum of Karuizawa is a literary museum in Nagakura, Japan, housed in a red building within the Karuizawa Taliesin complex. It holds a collection of literary works and art installations spread across several exhibition rooms.

The museum opened on 10 August 1985. Its oldest structure is the Shizuku-an villa, a two-storey wooden building where Arishima Takeo spent summers from 1916 and wrote 'A Certain Woman' in 1918; he died there with Hatano Akiko in 1923. The villa was later moved to the museum grounds, its ceiling beam removed to erase traces of the double suicide, and used after the war as temporary housing for repatriates. The museum also relocated Horiguchi Tatsuo's '1412' villa and Nogami Yaeko's 1933 study.

The museum keeps the former villa of Arishima Takeo, called Jōgetsuan, where he spent summers from 1916 and wrote 'The Agony of Coming into the World' in 1918. Its ground floor now holds a café and the upper floor a memorial room to the writer. The site also preserves the study and tea room of novelist Nogami Yaeko, built in 1933.

The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; it is not closed in winter. It sits in Karuizawa Taliesin, about 15 minutes by bus from Naka-Karuizawa Station on the Shinano Railway, then a 10-minute walk from the Fuetsu Park stop. The literary buildings are part of the Taliesin grounds, so allow time to walk between them.

The museum's grounds hold the former villa of Arishima Takeo, a two-storey wooden house moved from Mikasa in old Karuizawa. He spent every summer there from 1916 and wrote 'A Certain Woman' in 1918; in 1923 he and Hatano Akiko died there. The ground floor is now a cafe, the upper floor a memorial room to him.