After breakfast we went back to the train station and figured out how to get to the National Museum of Modern Art. There was an art deco jewelry exhibition that i really wanted to see. and it was AMAZING!! i wish i could have taken photos of everything in there. there weren’t actually that many pieces of jewelry being exhibited – quite a few brooches, cigarette cases, necklaces, and little sparkly things, but what we saw was just breathtaking. there were a lot of drawings and designs on yellowed and probably crispy paper. but it was beautiful to see the different designs and then a few of those designs actually in their three dimensional realizations. there were also a few pieces of clothing – evening gowns from the same period….made me want to go home and sew something gorgeous.
the museum is really close to heian jingu (shrine) – which was actually shown in “lost in translation”. it had started to rain shortly before we reached the museum and was still drizzling when we got out so we didn’t bother with the gardens at heian jingu. but i’ve heard that they’re absolutely beautiful…. we looked around the outer grounds a bit and even saw the tail end of a traditional japanese wedding. well, not the ceremony at all, but the wedding party was dressed in their garb and taking casual snapshots with each other. so we zoomed our cameras to the max and took advantage. ;-)
