Tokyo National Museum 2016

Tuesday morning we went to the Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館 Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) which is in Ueno Park. I was so happy we had already explored the park the day before when it wasn't raining! There's so much to see in the park!

Selfie in the rain in front of Tokyo National Museum

Japanese art that's thousands of years old

Andrew and Kevin appreciating the art in the museum

Scroll- read up and down from the top right to the left.

Gusoku Type Armor, Edo period, 16th-17th century- my size!

Kevin in front of a Chinese-style Quatrain in Seven-
character Phrases by Nukina Suo (1778-1863)

General Guan Yu and Landscape by Kano Isen'in (1775-1828)

Kimonos

Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Distant View of Mount Fuji
from Omiya Stations by Keisai Eisen (1791-1848)

Young Women of the Pleasure District in New Year's
Fashion: Shiratama of Tamaya by Iseda Koryusai (1735- ?)

Auspicious Desires on Land and Sea by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)

Two Beauties by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)

Sculptures

"Sending off the Bear's Spirit" Ceremony By Hirasawa Byozan (1822-76) 

Horse by Goto Sadayuki (1850-1903) Wood

After, we had lunch at Kayoiji Ueno Ten, and I tried the Oyakodon that Andrew had been telling me about- mother/child dish because it's chicken and eggs. I've since made it at home!

Kayoiji Ueno Ten

Me and Andrew eating

Kevin at Kayoiji Ueno Ten

Close-up of my oyakodon: chicken and eggs

With random giant panda at train station