Watanabe Museum Reccomendation
For all you samurai accoutrements nuts, next time you are in Japan, I suggest visiting the Watanabe Museum of Fine Arts. It has a very large collection of Yoroi, swords, and other historical whatnots. It is located in Tottori, on the Sea of Japan side of Honshu, same place as those wacky sand dunes. One of the museum guide speaks very good English and spent the day answering questions and letting me closely look at their stuff. No National Treasures, but the inventory is immense and well worth a visit. It:s a private collection, which makes it perhaps even more interesting. Watanabe-san was in the right place at the right time.
I will post some pics when I get back home in a few weeks.
J. Nicolaysen
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"I value the opinion much more of a grand master then I do some English professor, anyways." Well really, who wouldn't?
We're all of us just bozos on the budo bus and there's no point in looking to us for answers regarding all the deep and important issues.--M. Skoss.