We headed to the Nagoya train station to have lunch. We went to Masa's, a Chinese Restaurant and had a great lunch. This station is the largest in the world as measured in square feet. Then we took a taxi to the Tokugawa Art Museum. This museum specialized in the possessions of a line of feudal lords dating way back to the mid 1500's. Many items were militaristic such as armor, swords, bows and arrows and the like. A larger number of items were related to the domestic life such as the tea ceremony with cups and water jars and wood fired hearths. This museum has nine national treasures, the highest level of recognition for an artifact. One of them is the oldest copy of the tale of Genji from the 12th century. This is the same tale that the Geisha sang and danced to back in Kyoto. We enjoyed this museum and took more time in the museum than we had thought we would have taken. Regardless we were already located at our next place of interest.
We saw this building from the observation tower and it is as interesting from the ground level
We are almost at the station
It is huge!
It is also busy
Our restaurant, Masa's
A huge steam cooker for dumplings
I got a shrimp dish with a raw egg on top
Leslie got a scallop fried rice
A fancy spoon with soy sauce
Dumpling production
Pork mixed with beef
Chicken stock
A shrimp dumpling
Many more dumplings
Lots of plastic food in front of restaurants
The iconic Chubu TV tower
The entrance to the park that contains the museum
A very unique plant
Team Leip !
Red Lilys, so tall
The Tokugawa Art Museum
At the entrance a huge banner
An ingenious quiver for the storage of arrows
A sword tsuba, the part on the top of the scabbard
A fantastic water jar used in the tea cermonies
A very old incense burner
Masks were used in the theater
Different masks showed different emotions
Some masks are better looking than others
A large area was built into the museum to showcase domestic items within a realistic recreation of a domestic scene
Kimonos were shown fully laid out
Scrolls were unrolled to show the illustrations found on the inside, here a few Ogres are raiding the crops
Samurai storm in on a sleeping ogre
The rascally samurai cut off the ogres head. To add insult to injury the samurai puts the ogre's head on top of his helmet. I can imaging the samurai saying "Oooohhh I am the big bad scary ogre now!"
We saw this game being played by a dozen older men in a cafe in Osaka
The inside of the building was grand
Original light fixtures
Sturdy be delicate at the same time
With old time switches
Carved and inlayed wooden panels above the doors
Great detail on the bird
Mosaic stone inlay
The Nagoya fish
Even stone inlay on the walls
Two cats
Two dogs and two of each design on the back of shells. It is a shell game much like the concentration game we played as kids
A fine looking set of doors
The detail on this lacquered box lid!
The rest of the box is very nice too
