The mazelike Tokugawa museum had a great many rooms and thankfully the path was always marked. Had it not been marked we would surely still be in there walking in circles. Unique to this museum was the many woodcut prints and other paper products that rarely survived the ravages of time. Everything from traditional story scrolls to portraits of actors and wrestlers to illustrations of choreography for dramatic performances. The one thing that amazed us time and again was the vivid colors that were used that have somehow survived as brightly as when they were printed.
Taken from the poster leading to the exhibit
A haunted house
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Dramatic actors
The Kabuki theater playbill of olden days
Winter
Moon
Spring
Part of a manuscript odfthe many faces of the moon
This must have been a windy day as she is airborne and has lost her fan
As we suspected the traditional wooden sandals have always sucked
This was supposed to be a lady peeling an eggplant but clearly it is a time-warped iPhone
One big sumo wrestler
Sump wrestlers would actually make a hand print as part of their portrait
A wrestling match
Illustrations of the dances os theatrical performances of the day
An odd type of portraiture is where the elements of the person's face is made of human figures
They even had a puzzle outside the gallery to illustrate the technique
Yoga for the Japanese man with a bucket on his head?
How to exercise together?
