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Japanese Galleries
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA)
Boston, MA, USA
Exhibit through 6 July 2007
The actual baskets are even more stunning than the images shown here. Personally, I like this Basketry exhibit much more than the much talked about feature exhibit Fashion Show (where I spent less than an hour).
Perhaps, I am biased. I have always been captivated by Japanese art and architecture. This fascination started when I was quite young, before I went to school, I found a glossy Japanese magazine showing pictures of Japanese food and scenery.
This is just a small component of the Japanese Galleries in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). I will try to share more in the future. There is also a Japanese Garden just outside the MFA but it is closed during Winter. The Arnold Arboretum (part of the Harvard University) also has a large collection of Bonsai, some more than three hundred years old, gifts from the Japanese government, I believe.