Part 1Early modern times
- Special Exhibition: HOSOKAWA Gracia
- Chapter 1: The statesmen and their entourage
- 1. Brains of the early Edo period
- 2. The officials
- 3. Yoshinobu and Nariaki
- 4. Confucian advisers of Mito Domain
- Chapter 2: Regarding literary works
- 1. Scholars of Japanese classical literature and Confucian thought
- 2. Gesaku writers
- 3. That author behind that book
- Chapter 3: Eyes of science
- 1. Achievements of traditional pharmacognosists and birth of Dutch studies
- 2. Struggle with the Western languages
- 3. People around Siebold
- Chapter 4: The performing arts and their milieu
Part 2Modern era
- Chapter 1: People at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration
- 1. People who lived through the end of the Edo period
- 2. People of the Meiji Restoration
- 3. Vassals of the Shogun and FUKUZAWA Yukichi
- Chapter 2: Past prime ministers
- 1. Prime ministers from the Meiji to Early-Showa eras
- 2. Postwar prime ministers
- Chapter 3: Politicians
- Chapter 4: Social activists
- Chapter 5: Military men in Russo-Japanese War
- Chapter 6: Entrepreneurs
- Chapter 7: Educators
- Chapter 8: Scholars
- 1. Natural sciences
- 2. Humanities
- Chapter 9: Writers
- 1. Literary figures active during the end of the Edo period to Meiji Restoration
- 2. Literary figures active during the Meiji era
- 3. Literary figures active during the Taisho era
- 4. Literary figures active during the Showa era
- Chapter 10: Artists
- Chapter 11: Sumo wrestlers
- Chapter 12: The wife of that famous person
Part 3Autograph collection
- Chapter 1: Paintings
- Chapter 2: Signatures 1, 2
- Chapter 3: Diaries
- 1. Great Kanto Earthquake
- 2. The day after the war ended
- 3. Diary collection
- Chapter 4: Letters to families