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Went to the Vapriikki museum today.
The Year of the Bear exhibition on inrou were worth the time. The rest of the museum was less interesting. I'm glad we got to go though. And it was a pleasant surprise to finally have some place in Finland accepting the ISIC card - usually they won't give discounts unless you are a student here in Finland. So we paid 4 euros for two people instead of 14.
Most of the inrou were really impressive though. Well, Japanese art/handicraft always is. There was one which had whole map of the important places in Kyoto area drawn on it and labeled. Definitely a flashy thing to show off on your belt :P Unfortunately it's not featured on the exhibition website though and it wouldn't have been very productive to take pictures of such small objects with my camera either.
Another one of them was basically a box stacked with with 16 (or more) extremely tiny boxes made of lacquered paper. I suppose someone might have been using it to carry their entire selection of Chinese medicine with them so they could mix dried tiger bladder with with rat droppings whenever the need arose... (I'm not sure if these substances were actually used, but I was trying to be witty here...).
Oh, another clever one was one made of wood with a relief of a bamboo stem. The clever part was to get the sections of the bamboo coincide with inrou compartments. Japanese are always very clever with this sort of stuff... All the rest of them were pretty, delicate, intricate and masterpieces too, but it would have taken whole week to carefully appreciate each one of them and it'd bore anyone to death if I were to describe each one.
Then we had some pizza because the Indian place I wanted to go to was not where I remembered it was. I could swear I saw one on that street on Thursday...
The trees are still pretty and golden, some are almost bare already, some are still green. We got to rustle big yellow maple leaves with our feet while walking to the next bus stop (because it's too boring to just stand still and wait) and we blew bubbles with the chewing gum from that pizza place (they always give you chewing gum with your pizza).
The Year of the Bear exhibition on inrou were worth the time. The rest of the museum was less interesting. I'm glad we got to go though. And it was a pleasant surprise to finally have some place in Finland accepting the ISIC card - usually they won't give discounts unless you are a student here in Finland. So we paid 4 euros for two people instead of 14.
Most of the inrou were really impressive though. Well, Japanese art/handicraft always is. There was one which had whole map of the important places in Kyoto area drawn on it and labeled. Definitely a flashy thing to show off on your belt :P Unfortunately it's not featured on the exhibition website though and it wouldn't have been very productive to take pictures of such small objects with my camera either.
Another one of them was basically a box stacked with with 16 (or more) extremely tiny boxes made of lacquered paper. I suppose someone might have been using it to carry their entire selection of Chinese medicine with them so they could mix dried tiger bladder with with rat droppings whenever the need arose... (I'm not sure if these substances were actually used, but I was trying to be witty here...).
Oh, another clever one was one made of wood with a relief of a bamboo stem. The clever part was to get the sections of the bamboo coincide with inrou compartments. Japanese are always very clever with this sort of stuff... All the rest of them were pretty, delicate, intricate and masterpieces too, but it would have taken whole week to carefully appreciate each one of them and it'd bore anyone to death if I were to describe each one.
Then we had some pizza because the Indian place I wanted to go to was not where I remembered it was. I could swear I saw one on that street on Thursday...
The trees are still pretty and golden, some are almost bare already, some are still green. We got to rustle big yellow maple leaves with our feet while walking to the next bus stop (because it's too boring to just stand still and wait) and we blew bubbles with the chewing gum from that pizza place (they always give you chewing gum with your pizza).