While we were in Oxford after Christmas we went to the Ashmolean Museum - J looked at the Egyptian stuff and I took the opportunity to visit one of the exhibitions they had on, as well as having a look at the early Chinese gallery to look at the sorts of things mentioned in the book I am reading.

Threads of Silk and GoldThis is an exhibition of ( Read more... )

The British Museum currently has an exhibition on the art of drinking in Asia called "Ritual and Revelry" which runs through till 6 January. We visited it on 23 November as we were in London for a concert that evening.

The ExhibitionThe bulk of the objects in the exhibition were in a single room in the museum - with just a couple in the room ( Read more... )

This is the image I am currently using as my desktop background, it's made from 3 pictures I took in the Japanese Galleries at the British Museum on Monday. In the middle is Monju Bosatsu (Boddhisatva Manjusri), whose lion roars with the sound of Buddhist law. To the left is the deity Fudõ Myõ-õ whose fierce appearance shows his intolerance of ( Read more... )

J had some days of leave to use up by the end of March & the British Museum had a Members' Open Evening on Monday, so we took advantage of these two facts & spent 2 days in London. The journey into London was mostly uneventful, tho the driving bit was full of other cars most of which seemed to be driven by morons, and loads of freight which is ( Read more... )