AMAMIYA · HOUSE AC-038-MMXXVI TOKYO — KYOTO FOLIO — I / V
PLATE I · HERO MONOLITH

AMAMIYA

A TRUST OF CULTURE & MONETARY KEEPING
PLATE II · CULTURAL MOTIF

An old house keeps quietly. The Amamiya Trust, established in the closing years of Meiji and held without interruption through three eras of war, finance, and reformation, holds cultural property in trust for those who will read these papers after us.

We are stewards. We are not merchants of the present.

HANKO · ACCESSION 038 · ENGRAVED ON PAPER
PLATE III · STATEMENT
We do not chase the times. We hold them.
HOUSE DECLARATION · UNDATED
PLATE IV · CIVIC ROLE

The Trust holds three duties.

The first is custody — cultural property, ledger, and folio kept against the corrosion of haste.

The second is conveyance — matters of monetary keeping passed without comment from one generation to the next, as a torii is passed without explanation.

The third is silence — the house does not speak of its holdings, and does not need to.

TORII · ACCESSION 204 · CIVIC FOLIO
PLATE V · COLOPHON

MMXXVI

BY THE HAND OF AMAMIYA

TR-001 · TOKYO & KYOTO · MMXXVI

CULTURAL & MONETARY TRUST · EST. 1908