I hope this post wets your appetite to go visit JANM - Japanese National Museum.
We purchased a family membership for 2015; but this summer our daughter is an intern there , so it gave us a well deserved impetus to visit more often even than we expected to.
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JANM Entrance 8-14-15. Tanabata Flying in the front today. Next door too, has a whole host of them. We didn't get the chance to see more of the Tanabata, please come check it out for yourself.
But we did go inside for a look at the Samurai Exhibit.
This Tsuba was designed by the famed Miyamoto Musashi
His lecture today on tea bowls, how they were made, and the interelation between seasons and other aspects of Japanese Culture were great.
Next on the day's visits was JANM (Japanese American National Museum). My daughter Amy is an intern there for the summer, and gave me a great heads up about the opening of a new exhibit: "Sugar/Island". I attended a wonderful panel discussion with the curator of the exhibit as the moderator with the other two artists involved.
There was a host of great music and childrens crafts going on as well. It was a well planned and enjoyable opening day.
As always, I participated at the PJCI with the Nanka Kyudo Kai practice as well to end the day.
This is a beautiful converted church which was founded 45 years ago.
As usual I arrived much too early. But I could see that they had already begun to prepare, at least the day before if not earlier.
As the morning progressed more and more flowers arrived.
