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Left Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Right A model on display, Edo-Tokyo Museum
Museums
! Edo-Tokyo Museum
£ Idemitsu Museum of Arts
This fabulous museum
traces the history of Edo and
Tokyo, charting its growth
from a fishing village to
today's megacity. Displays
and models cover both
the creation of the city
and the natural and
man-made disasters
that have reshaped it
(see pp14-15) .
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Housing one of the finest
private collections of Japanese
and Asian art in Tokyo, this
museum regularly rotates its
exquisite Chinese, Korean, and
Japanese ceramic ware and
ancient pottery shards,
calligraphy, and gold-
painted screens (see p73) .
$ Japan Folk Crafts
Museum
This museum displays a
large collection of wood-
work, ceramic ware,
textiles, metal, glass
work, and furniture created by
largely unknown artists from
Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan.
d Map C2 • 4-3-33 Komaba, Meguro-ku
• 3467-4527 • Open 10am-5pm Tue-Sun
• Adm • www.mingeikan.or.jp
Museum
The highly creative ad
work on display at this
extensive venue is sponsored by
Dentsu, Japan's largest advert-
ising operation. Exhibits cover
the long history of commercial
art in Japan. A TV room makes it
possible to view commercials on
demand (see pp74-5) .
Urn, Idemitsu
Museum of Arts
% Japanese Sword Museum
More than 30 of the 120
Japanese swords here are desig-
nated National Treasures, argu-
ably the finest instruments of
death ever made. A sword
society was set up in 1948
during the US Occupation years,
when swords were confiscated
as a means of protecting the art
of sword making. d Map A4 • 4-25-
10 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku • 3379-1386 • Open
9am-4:30pm Tue-Sun • Adm
^ Mori Art Museum
This museum focuses on
art in a strongly cultural context,
from video work, installation
art, architecture, Japanese
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Japan Folk Crafts Museum is set in the beautiful, prewar home of
folk-art activist Yanagi Soetsu.
 
 
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