The Yakumo Town Museum and Wood Carving Bear Museum is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Yakumo wooden carving bear in Hokkaido in 2024.
The exhibition begins with the first wooden bear carved in Hokkaido, based on the Swiss wooden bear carving brought by Yoshichika Tokugawa, and the various prewar wooden bears in various poses that made Yakumo bears famous as Hokkaido's wooden bears, as well as the unique style of Shibasaki Shigeyuki, who established Shibasaki carving (haturi-bori) after the war that focuses on the face carved by an ax. The exhibition features unique wood carved bears, including bears carved by Shigeyuki Shibasaki, who established his own style of carving called hatzuri-bori (carved with an axe) after World War II.

The museum also exhibits a bear carved with a salmon in its mouth, a very popular postwar souvenir of Hokkaido, as well as bears carved from various regions of Hokkaido.