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Textiles
8 NEED TO KNOW
The Toyokan
has a sumptuous MAP F1 • 13-9 Ueno
collection of textiles Park, Taito-ku • 3822-
from China, Korea, 1111 • www.tnm.jp
Southeast Asia, Open 9:30am–5pm
India, the Middle East, and Tue–Sun (last Sat in
Egypt. Exquisite Mar–first Sun in Dec:
Indonesian brocade work 9:30am–6pm Sat, Sun
made from gold thread and public holidays)
can also be seen here • Adm
(left). The Honkan Gallery
houses Japanese textiles. • The museum shop
on the first floor of the
Arms and
Honkan sells items
Japanese
Armor
5 9 linked to museum
Archeology
exhibits and motifs.
The equipment once
The Heiseikan, dedicated owned by the country’s • The Hotel Okura’s
to Japanese archeo logy, military elite is displayed garden terrace in the
houses relics from the in the Honkan. Often Horyu-ji Gallery is a
Jomon period (c.10,000– excessively embellished, pleasant setting for
300 BC) onward. The this includes the lunch. There are cheaper
chronology of Japanese warriors’ attire: armor, options at the stalls and
arts can be found here. helmets, saddlery, and cafés in Ueno Park.
sword mountings.
Asian Arts
6 Museum Guide
The main gate to the
The Toyokan is the gallery to
see Asian art. The collection museum complex,
includes fine examples of Korean consisting of four major
metalwork, Khmer pottery, Hindu galleries, lies at the
statuary, and cave paintings from north end of Ueno Park.
the grottoes of Xingling. The central gallery, the
Honkan, is straight
ahead, beyond the
pond. The Toyokan is on
the right, and the
Heiseikan is to the left,
behind the Honkan.
The Gallery of Horyu-ji
Treasures lies to the
left of the main gate,
behind the Hyokeikan,
a grand building
open only for special
exhibits and events.
Religious
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Sculptures
Calligraphy
7 Religious sculptures
(left) are scattered
The master
calli graphy in the throughout the galleries.
Honkan includes Bronze, gilt, and
bokuseki, exe cuted by sandstone sculptures
Zen priests (above). from Pakistan are
Even if the meanings of exhibi ted in the Toyokan.
the Chinese characters The Honkan dis plays
elude you, the beauty of Buddhist statues from
the brushwork will not. India and Japan.
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