Ueno Park - Tokyo National Museum Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan

Room 4: Old textiles, especially valuable examples from the Asuka period.

Room 5: Metalwork, especially Buddhist sacred vessels, etc. (6th-16th C.)

Room 6: Historical weapons and military equipment.

Room 7: The art of the swordsmith is illustrated with exhibits from different centuries.

Room 8: Historic Japanese clothing. Ceramics from Japan, China and Korea.

Room 9 and 10: Japanese, Korean and Chinese pottery from various periods.

Room 11: Japanese painting from the Nara Period (645-794) to the kamakura Period (1192-1336).

Room 12: Japanese painting from the Muromachi Period (1392-1573) including masterpieces by the monks, Josetsu, Shubun and Sesshu.

Room 13: Japanese painting from the Momoyama (1573-1603) and Tokugawa (1603-1868) periods, including works of the Kano, Tosa, Sumiyoshi, Korin and Maruyama schools.

Room 14: Coloured xylographs from the Tokugawa Period.

Rooms 15 and 16: Japanese and Chinese masterpieces of lacquer-work of various centuries, including examples of lacquer-carving, gold lacquer, lacquer with mother of pearl.

Rooms 17 and 18: Japanese painting of the Meiji Period.

Rooms 19 and 20: Masterpieces of Japanese calligraphy, examples from the nara Period to the Tokugawa Period.

There are two other galleries near the main building: Hyokeikan: objects excavated from graves, settlements, etc., reveal the prehistory of Japan. The so-called Haniwa, pottery figures which were buried with the dead, are especially worthy of note. Toyokan: objects from China and Korea.

Behind the main building there is a typical Japanese landscape garden. Three pavilions have been brought here, and they give it the character of an open-air museum. The Tein Teahouse (Rokuso-an) dates from the 17th C. In the Okyo Pavilion (Okyo-kan) pictures with plant motives by the famous landscape artist Maruyama Okyo (1735-95) are on show, while pictures by Kano School painters are displayed in the Kujo Pavilion. There is also a storehouse from the Kamakura Period.

Horyuji-homotsukan, the Treasure of the Horyuji Temple near Nara which was completed in 1964, lies nearby. It is, however, open only on Thursdays when the weather is good.