{"id":6060,"date":"2010-07-26T18:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2010-07-03T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T02:11:02","slug":"horyuji-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/horyuji-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Horyuji treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1020643trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1020643trim-800x429.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo national museum\" title=\"Horyuji treasure room\" width=\"800\" height=\"429\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1020643trim-800x429.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1020643trim-250x134.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1020643trim.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a recent visit to the Tokyo National Museum I took today&#8217;s photo of the main room in The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures (\u6cd5\u9686\u5bfa\u5b9d\u7269\u9928) in <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/ueno\/>Ueno Park<\/a>. The room doesn&#8217;t really look like this to the natural eye. I set my camera on the floor in the corner and left the shutter open for 8 seconds to get this view. <\/p>\n<p>The room is actually very dark with a small light on each of the dozens of Kanon (\u89b3\u97f3) statues. I found the atmosphere to be amazing and very un-museum like. Instead of things lines up against the walls, there is nothing against the walls. Instead, there are the &#8220;glowing&#8221; pedestals lined up in neat rows. The statues are from different countries and artists spanning a couple hundred years (mostly 7th and 8th Centuries). But they are all somewhat similar in size making them both unique and uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent visit to the Tokyo National Museum I took today&#8217;s photo of the main room in The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures (\u6cd5\u9686\u5bfa\u5b9d\u7269\u9928) in Ueno Park. The room doesn&#8217;t really look like this to the natural eye. I set my camera on the floor in the corner and left the shutter open for 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[101,125,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}