JAPAN ADVENTURE

Welcome to Margie & Stan's Japan Adventure - our photo blog while living on MCAS Iwakuni in beautiful Yamaguchi Prefecture in Western Japan from 8/2004 to present. My photo above is the famous Kintai Bridge right here in Iwakuni. Be sure to check out Blog Archive (below left) for highlights of our travels. And leave us a comment - we'd love to hear from you! Click on photos to enlarge.
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

And the other is "St John the Baptist" by Auguste Rodin.




We spent several hours looking at various galleries in this museum, featuring Western artists Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Matisse, El Greco, Gauguin, and others; and a whole building of Japanese art. It was absolutely overwhelming to stand & look at these priceless original works of art!
A garden outside the Ohara Museum of Art.




Outside the last building we visited at the museum. I was not allowed to take pictures inside, but I did buy some postcards of some of the VERY famous artwork that's inside the museum buildings. It was really amazing that such an amazing museum is here in Kurashiki -- a relatively small town.

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