The Ikegami Hyakuchikutei Collection is a collection of 1890 items, mainly modern literary materials, collected by the literary man Ikegami Kisaku (pen name Hyakuchikutei, 1978-221).

Born into a merchant family in Matsumoto City, Kisaku developed a respect for art in an environment where his family owned the Tekagami "Usagi-shu", a designated important art treasure. While attending the old Matsumoto Middle School, he discovered Masaoka Shiki's haiku innovation movement and became fascinated with it. This was also a time when Matsumoto was the prefectural base for the haiku innovation movement. While working at the family business, he continued to compose poetry and haiku, but the collection began when he acquired Shiki's Shiki Koji's Imitation of Old Picture Themes ("Fujimusume et al."). The core of the collection consists of works by Shiki and his disciples, but it expanded beyond literature to include art and crafts.

This exhibition, which marks the museum's reopening, will bring together Shiki's most representative works from the collection. It will be an opportunity to get a glimpse of the Shiki literature that Kisaku pursued throughout his life, and visitors will also be able to see Tekagami "Usagishu."