Our last class before departure has finished today. I know that most of us won't have much time to think about anything but packing at this moment - we will be leaving on Wednesday, May 9 - NOT Thursday, May 10. However, I have to let students to think your first big trip on Friday, May 11.
It seems that tickets for the special exhibition (Celebrating the 130th Anniversary of Kokka and the 140th Anniversary of the Asashi Sumbun Echoes of a Masterpiece: The Lineage of Beauty in Japanese Art) are sold out long time ago, we may not be able to see it. We can still try to buy ticket at the counter on Friday, May 13. However, it might be a good idea to have a sort of back up plans. I think that we should visit Honkan this time since we only have about 2 hours at the museum on that day.
Here is a description of Honkan from the museum website.
Japanese Gallery (Honkan - 本館)
The original Main Gallery (designed by the British architect Josiah Conder) was severely damaged in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. In contrast to western style of the original structure, the design of the present Honkan by Watanabe Jin is the more eastern "Emperor's Crown Style." Construction began in 1932, and the building was opened in 1938.
It is not easy to select some from many exhibitions in the building, but I tried to do my best to pick the followings:
1. Ukiyoe and Fashion in the Edo Period: Ukiyo-e
"This exhibit features works themed on the seasonal festival of May, better known as the Boys’Festival, with vigorous works such as portrayals of Samurai and Kintaro, the powerful boy in legends." -> Read more Ukiyo-e and Fashion in the Edo Period: Ukiyo-e
2. Ukiyo-e and Fashion in the Edo Period: Fashion
Introduces the fashion of the Edo period townspeople.
-> Read more Ukiyo-e and Fashion in the Edo Period: Fashion
3. Record of History
"The Tokyo National Museum holds many artworks and other materials that shine light on history, with the foundation of this collection consisting of materials inherited from the shogun’s government of the Edo period (1603–1868). From the time of the Museum’s establishment in 1872, this foundation was supplemented with additional materials collected through exhibitions and surveys of cultural properties." -> Read more Records of History
4. Tea Bowls of Japan: Raku Ware and Other Wares from Minor, Kyoto, Karatsu, and Takatori
"This exhibition features Japanese-style tea bowls for use in the tea ceremony. Unlike imported Chinese tea bowls, which were brought from China along with the tea-drinking custom, and bowls made on the Korean peninsula, which, as the esthetic sense of the Japanese people changed during the late Muromachi period (1392–1573), began to be used for the Japanese tea ceremony, Japanese-style tea bowls were crafted particularly for wabicha, a new style of the Japanese tea ceremony perfected during the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573–1603). These Japanese-style tea bowls later evolved into various forms." Read more -> Tea Bowls of Japan
I hope this information will be helpful. Happy packing!
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