We went to the Japan Folk Art Museum and the Camera Museum today. Both very interesting but no photography allowed and no English to explain the displays. The Folk Art Museum is in a gorgeous house - all dark wood and sliding screens. Bought great postcards and had to wear slippers in the house and separate ones for the bathroom. Saw some work of the Ainu - Japan's First Nations people. Wooden boxes and woven materials. The Camera Museum has every kind of camera, big and small. It even had detectives and their 'undercover' cameras hidden in pop cans, pens, cigarette boxes, hats, flowers and lapels. Wonderful, original posters from the 20's on and photographs of every country where the cameras orginated. Yesterday we booked a Noh Theatre experience for March as well as a two week train trip into rural Japan. We will stay in a temple, an inn, a hostel and more. Hope the weather is going to warm
up. Cold and misty right now.
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