Greeting
The Nagamori Culture Foundation (the "Foundation") was established in February, 2016 and made a transition to a public interest incorporated foundation in March, 2019.
This prospectus is to inform you of the establishment of the Foundation, an organization to operate a music box museum to publicly display a collection of world-renowned antique music boxes and introduce the culture of music boxes and related technologies' historical and social values. This museum will provide information to its visitors about music played by rare, highly valued antique music boxes and their history and culture in a way understandable to everyone, and help cultivate the sensitivity of generations of people, ranging from children to adults.
Cultivating the "sensitivity" to be able to feel music boxes' "delicate," "gentle," and "warm" sounds is essential in enriching the minds of people and realizing a wealthy society. Despite the switch from "analogue" to "digital" in the world of audio technology, the music box, since its inception in the 17th century, has always been in people's lives and been endeared by many. The music box, comprising a drive to rotate its body, a diaphragm and a housing to play music, and a gear-based automation section, is full of the essence of product making. While some music boxes are clockwork-driven, others are motor-driven, and a gear-based automation mechanism can be seen in mechanical music instruments and automata made in the 18th century Europe, as well as in Japanese wind-up dolls from the Edo Period (1603-1867). These technologies were evolved into the present-day state-of-the-art technologies, and are applied and used in all fields of industry.
It is the Foundation's intention to ensure that not only does the newly founded music box museum display antique music boxes, but it also integrates a wide range of people's wisdom and expedites mutual collaboration based on sound-, machine-, and product making-perspectives to promote artistic cultures, traditional crafts, etc. and carry them to the next generation, create networks of people, and serve as a communication space where people can offer information to each other.
