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2011/11/12 20:21 |
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  | On the first day of our tour, we went to the Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum right before eating lunch. The museum has a beautiful stone garden and four exhibition rooms on the second floor. Wajima is famous for its lacquer ware, so I was very excited to see what was inside the museum. A very friendly guide told us, that the museum was opened in 1991. It might not be that big, but it has some really beautiful pieces of art in it.
First you get to know something about how Urushi Art is made and about its history. Then you can see some exceptionally great pieces of Urushi Art. There are lots of boxes, cups, wall paintings and so on. They are all different in size and shape and each one seems to tell its own story. For most of the works nacre, beat gold (gold leaf) and gold dust has been used. Some of the works are so amazingly beautiful that you cannot stop looking at them for a while. Although they are very expensive, handmade lacquer ware from Wajima, the so called Urushi Art, is a great souvenir from the Noto Peninsula.
It only takes about 30 minutes to see everything that is in the museum, but it is really worth the way to come here. If you are interested in Japanese craft, especially in lacquer ware, I recommend you to visit the Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum!
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