Ueno Park

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The typhoons seem to have given up for a bit, so I headed to Ueno Park today. It's a large park, full of Museums and homeless people living under blue tarps with many cats as pets. I only went to one museum, and that was the Tokyo National Museum. It has five buildings for different regions: Asian (non-Japanese, containing things from Korea/China/Middle East), Western (closed today), and three buildings containing various Japanese art and relics. It was all very interesting.

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Photos

Rodin #1
This was outside the Western Art Museum. I believe they were having a Rodin exhibit.

The Thinker
"It's gotta be the egg, but...."

Sculpture guy
I can't remember what this is...

Bronze Sword
I think this is from China

Red guy
I probably should have taken notes on what these were...

Naginata Blade
This is a very old blade from a Naginata, which is kind of like a spear, but can be used with a slashing motion.

Bow and quiver
There's no sense of scale here, but this bow was very large.

Old man
I believe he is the god of longevity, or somesuch.

Brahmin
He's reading a section of the holy book, the Rig Veda, said the description.

Western building of the Tokyo National Museum
This reminds me of something.

Neat room
The picture doesn't do it justice, but this room was really neat looking.

Neat room 2
Same thing.