Blogger needs to streamline its photo uploading process...
But first, a nice group shot of some people I've met here, mainly through Daniel, sans Daniel.
We were in the cafeteria celebrating James's 21st birthday during lunch. Clockwise from very left: Erika from Malaysia, James from England, So-Ky from the U.S., Pablo from Mexico, Clara from Spain, Brian from U.S., Christoph from Germany, and Greg.Now for some education:
Daniel and I went to the aforementioned museum in Ryogoku. Ryogoku is famous for sumo. Sumo guys live there and open restaurants, there's a sumo museum, and some sumo stables that you can check out. It was a rainy, cold day so we decided to choose somewhere indoors and ended up at this highly-recommended museum.
The museum from the station platform.
Up the stairs.
Daniel and I went to the aforementioned museum in Ryogoku. Ryogoku is famous for sumo. Sumo guys live there and open restaurants, there's a sumo museum, and some sumo stables that you can check out. It was a rainy, cold day so we decided to choose somewhere indoors and ended up at this highly-recommended museum.
The museum from the station platform.
Up the stairs.
The start of the long long escalator ride up.
Daniel catching some waves going up!
There were pretty paintings and things on the walls of the escalator tunnel...but someone got in the way...
Oh, like these, on the left. It was a really nice escalator...
Inside.
On a 1:1 scale representation of the northern part of the Nihonbashi (bridge). It crossed over one of the floors so you could look over everything beneath you, and crossed from the entrance to the main part of the exhibit.
Really detailed scale models of living arrangements and cities way back when.
Daniel peering through binoculars to get a better look at the little models.
Look at those tiny people! Everything was so detailed.
Little people crossing a bridge and things.
Daniel in one of those princess-carrying things. We didn't think we were allowed to use flash here...
Another look at the bridge. Oh so dark.
For Ben...Not that it can be read or anything, but uh, Kanazawa!
We wondered how this "Body warmer" might've worked...
Naval ensign of the Tokugawa Shogunate warship. Meaning, really old.
Back in the old days, when there was a fire, this one firefighter would have to go to the center and start twirling this thing to alert people and also show the fire's origin.
Daniel giving it a whirl. It's really heavy! I can't imagine being that person who carried that.
Step by step frames of a...silkscreen print perhaps.
Sumo!
Another model of something.
A record of illegal activities of Shirokiya employees over a span of 20 years (1839-1859). Interesting. It's really thick.
Daniel catching some waves going up!
There were pretty paintings and things on the walls of the escalator tunnel...but someone got in the way...
Oh, like these, on the left. It was a really nice escalator...
Inside.
On a 1:1 scale representation of the northern part of the Nihonbashi (bridge). It crossed over one of the floors so you could look over everything beneath you, and crossed from the entrance to the main part of the exhibit.
Really detailed scale models of living arrangements and cities way back when.
Daniel peering through binoculars to get a better look at the little models.
Look at those tiny people! Everything was so detailed.
Little people crossing a bridge and things.
Daniel in one of those princess-carrying things. We didn't think we were allowed to use flash here...
Another look at the bridge. Oh so dark.
For Ben...Not that it can be read or anything, but uh, Kanazawa!
We wondered how this "Body warmer" might've worked...
Naval ensign of the Tokugawa Shogunate warship. Meaning, really old.
Back in the old days, when there was a fire, this one firefighter would have to go to the center and start twirling this thing to alert people and also show the fire's origin.
Daniel giving it a whirl. It's really heavy! I can't imagine being that person who carried that.
Step by step frames of a...silkscreen print perhaps.
Sumo!
Another model of something.
A record of illegal activities of Shirokiya employees over a span of 20 years (1839-1859). Interesting. It's really thick.I have a ton more pictures from the museum, so I'm going to take a break (I'll try not to make it a week-long break...). Goodnight!
2 comments:
Yea, I'm really disappointed with the way all my pictures from that museum turned out. It was much too dark.
Jen Doooooooooo! Thanks for taking that picture! It is very cool, because it uses the old kanji for Kanazawa (金澤) so you know it must be legit! There are some places on there I recognize (大宮, near you, and 軽井沢 (Karuizawa, which on the map also uses the old "sawa" kanji. It's up in Nagano-ken and is a big time resort town. Random fact, it's the only place in the world to have hosted both summer and winter Olympic events!) It was also interesting to see that the museum used the term 金沢藩 (Kanazawa-han), as everyone around here calls it 加賀藩. (Kaga-han) Apparently both terms are used, and I assume that the museum opted for Kanazawa as people would be more likely to know where Kanazawa is than Kaga. Also, if you've been to Tokyo University, that's where the mansion of the Maeda clan, who ruled the Kaga-han, was, and the Akamon gate that's still there was part of it! So that's pretty cool!
Sorry that this comment became rather long, it's just kind of amazing how this stuff is still around, you know?
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