Jaime Marie is visiting me till Monday, so, what a great excuse to grab a little of my holiday time and take her sightseeing in Tokyo.
Today we visited the Imperial East Gardens. I was hot, bright and sunny when we started out and became more and more cloudy and at one point thundered and dropped a few raindrops on us.
So many beautiful greens. So many kinds of bamboo - who knew? So many opportunities to capture the ancient in the foreground and the ultra modern in the background.
We especially also enjoyed the exhibition at the small museum at the Gardens. The had on display books of paintings from 1885 through 1981. This style of binding paintings by the same or various artists into an accordion book for convenient viewing and storage was popular in the Edo through the Taisho periods but gradually went out of style. The newer books were made to be presented to the Imperial Family on various auspicious occasions. A very wide range of styles subjects and techniques was represented making it a very interesting display indeed. Sorry, no photos were permitted.
After the Gardens we went to Omotesando, Harajuku, then Akihabara and home. Dinner at the okonomiyaki restaurant was really good.
And now to bed.
2 comments:
The gardens were lovely... it was amazing to see the stark contrast between the Sky Tree and the myriad trees, flowers, and bamboo... And yes, the okonomiyaki was quite possibly the best thing I ate while I was there... second to only curry ;)
I was beginning to think that if you hurt yourself you'd bleed orange from your curry binge! I thought it was important to introduce you to some other riyori.
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