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Asian Art Themes
With roughly 110,000 objects in its collection, the
Tokyo National Museum regularly rotates its exhibits.
The themes listed here at the Toyokan are part of its
permanent collection, but individual displays change.
Since the Toyokan is currently undergoing renovation,
the Asian works will be exhibited in alternative rooms.
Top 10 Asian Art
Themes
1 Indian and Gandharan
Sculpture (13th-2nd
century BC)
2 Ancient Asian Bronze
Drums (6th-5th century
BC)
3 West Asian Textiles
(19th century AD)
4 Chinese Archeology
(2nd-1st century BC)
5 Chinese Textiles
(15th-17th century AD)
6 Chinese Ceramics
(Three Kingdoms period
-Tang Dynasty)
7 Chinese Ceramics
(Song -Qing Dynasty)
8 Chinese Stone Reliefs
from Shangdong
(1st-2nd century)
9 Korean Ceramics
(9th-10th century)
0 Central Asian Religious
Cave Paintings
(Tang Dynasty)
Left Indian sculpture Right Chinese ceramic
Stone Age Tokyo
Early settlers lived along the ridges and bluffs of the
present-day Yamanote Hills. The elevated ground
gave them access to plentiful supplies of fish. The
pre-Bronze Age site - the Omori Shell Mound - in
Western Tokyo was discovered in 1877 by the
American zoologist Edward Sylvester Morse. The
event marked the beginning of Japanese archeology.
( Museum Garden
logs, the inner walls of this tiny
storehouse are decorated with
murals depicting bodhisattvas
and protective deities.
and Teahouses
The site is open to the public
during the spring cherry blossom
or fall leaf-viewing seasons.
Those who happen to be in
Tokyo around this time should
not pass up the chance to see
this secret pond-garden and
teahouses on the north side
of the Honkan.
) Statue of Edward Jenner
British physician Edward
Jenner (1749-1823) discovered
a smallpox vaccine providing
immunity against smallpox. This
memorial statue by the sculptor
Koun Takamura was erected as
a tribute to Jenner in 1896.
Statue of Edward Jenner
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