Artist’s exclusive: Japan Travel Blog – the Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo National Museum is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is huge, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining:
“Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist deities, Shinto
deities and portraits of people”
There is room to appreciate each of...