Japanese Arts (Tokyo National Museum)

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Сообщение от Konstantin

This is why interesting? And can we hope for authenticity?
In the past "26 Salon" in CHA, on the third floor, was firm /gallery (Do not know how to call it) which was exhibited only samurai swords. And it was stunning signature on the certificates.
blade 16 th century masters such and such a successfully tested on razrubanie human body

- Cheaper costs us in Europe, because it flows easily through garnitsy and markets, as Japanese exports of antiques is strictly forbidden, until the prison.
- Authenticity can be defined here, in my opinion, only in the museum of the East.
- Katana, our dealers and specialists carry even in Japan for special treatment, grinding, polishing, and returned home with a professional certificate.

I continue to from the National Museum of Western Art. There is now undergoing the Louvre exhibition, which knocked the Japanese, as in honey, of course, we did not go and visit the permanent exhibition. Here, look what they have:

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Most comes from the collection of Impressionist Matsukata, as described smotritelnitsa in the museum, it was a wealthy Japanese industrialist, who before the war brought the best in Japan, a collection of app. painting, but with the beginning of the war, he has lost money for the maintenance of the collection, and he decided to give all of the State, provided that it would be specially built museum of Western art, that Japan did.

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Eugène Boudin - one of the best that have seen a large, more than three feet, sunny, lively, just super!
Monet, of course, too handsome!
And, generally speaking, hanging a strange, confusing ...

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Everything now has downloaded, I realized that hanging - on the principle of a beautiful combination of work between themselves, without regard to time, style, etc.

In connection with Van Gogh in "some" perfectly understandable question arose, in consequence of that, our guide-interpreter on its own initiative, ran to smotritelnitse and asked her, "a Van Gogh you real?", Well you know the answer ....
And my final doubts were dispelled in the museum shop, when the honorable window loomed all in a chic box with a Van Goga amazing rosettes inside, well, around a solid, Van Gogh and Monet. A towel with "lilies" Monet, even sold mounted in a frame ...