WIHL’s off-site exhibition at Toyama Library Waseda’s Strange House of Literature／Library Week Autumn 2025
This autumn, again, we hold an exhibition introducing the International House of Literature at Toyama Library, in collaboration with the welcome events for first-year students at Waseda University, Library Week
※Details for Library Week can be found here
Do you know that the International House of Literature (IHL), commonly known as the Haruki Murakami Library, is located on the Waseda Campus? It’s a white building surrounded by a strange-shaped wooden canopy, but what exactly is inside?
This “House of Literature” opened in 2021, after novelist Haruki Murakami, an alumnus of Waseda University’s Faculty of Letters, came to deposit and donate his valuable personal collection to his alma mater.
The International House of Literature functions as a library where anyone can leisurely read books, a museum offering exhibitions on a wide range of themes beyond literature, and a cultural exchange facility hosting numerous internationally diverse events. This exhibition focuses on one of its functions, the “library,” briefly introducing some of the Haruki Murakami works available at the Library and the fascinating world of translations spreading overseas.
- Period: Thursday, October 2, 2025 – Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- Venue: B1F, Toyama Library (Library admission privileges required)
Survey participation gift
Visiting the exhibit and completing the survey you will receive an IHL original paper coaster (not for sale)!
Please present your survey completion screen at the Information Desk on the 1st floor of the International House of Literature.
*The International House of Literature is closed on Wednesdays. For detailed opening hours, please check our library calendar on the top page.
Information: IHL’s Research Collection Stacks
From Monday, September 1, 2025 to Friday, December 19, 2025, Waseda undergraduate students may use the IHL’s Research Collection Stacks without a referral letter (browsing only; no borrowing permitted). Please stop by.
For Research Collection Stacks usage guidelines, click here.
Related exhibition: What Libraries Protect, What Libraries Open
This event is linked to the small exhibition currently running at the International House of Literature: “What Libraries Protect, What Libraries Open.” If you wish to explore deeper thoughts about libraries—sometimes serving as shelters that ‘protect’ visitors, and other times as spaces that ‘open’ up life and thought—please come to open our door.
