Western building of the Tokyo National Museum

Ueno Park

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September 8th 2005
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 bu ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more