Strike a Pose

SO many titles to choose from for this blog. Mostly from Madonna songs.

Regardless...

On Friday I went to the Sagawa Art Museum with 3 of the s/c's from my class; it was in Otsu, over the eastern mountain range near Lake Biwa. We, along with 5 others (who came to the museum as we were leaving) volunteered to check out the Raku Bowls collection at the museum, and a teahouse that is built on the site. The class this Monday focuses on tea in Kyoto - and Japanese tea sure as hell played a big role in politics. Not so much now, however.

The museum was amazing. Give me that museum, turn it into a house and it would make some fancy architectural magazine.
The pictures don't do it justice. More on Flickr.

We saw the bowls and generally loved the museum - unfortunately we didn't get enough time to see the other art galleries. Why? We were too busy having fun with a blank cement wall.



Models we do not make. There was this cavernous room on the lower level of the Raku Kichizaemon building, where the entrance to the teahouse and the galleries where the bowls were located. It was actually underneath the moat surrounding museum, one of those 6-inch deep ones for decorative purposes, and the glass bottom was a part of the ceiling.

This let light come inside; I wanted to take a picture before we went into the gallery but a gallery person told us to wait till noon, where the light was best. It was sure worth it, and a lot of fun. I have to say that is one of my most favorite museums now.