good morning - well. it's almost afternoon, but hi guys! so today i just wanted to vlog. i'm gonna check out this edo-tokyo architecturalmuseum. it seems pretty cool and like you know whenyou go to the met or any other museums where
Edo Open Air Museum, they have those period rooms, this is prettymuch a whole museum of homes built during the edo period so pretty much this museum- the whole point is to take you into that era and explore daily life and how thingslooked during that time. i love and i'm a sucker for.
i studied history in college so i love seeinghow people live and viewing that through an anthropological aspect and just observingthings. i'm going to take some video, record and showyou guys what it looks like because i've seen seen pictures and it looks pretty good. so i just washed my hair yesterday and itfeels so nice and fluffy and it smells great, but it looks a bit weird or misshapen. but it's okay - at least its clean, right? this is the area that i live in. it's pretty residential, suburban.
there seems to be a huge interest in gamblingso there's a lot of pachinko slots places. i never see any rice fields ever. i mostly just see small farms - a lot of gardeninghere, which is cool. and of course, you know they drive on theleft-side of the road and the cars here are so cute and small. i think that's because the streets are sonarrow. that's a regular-size car, but this car issuper narrow. so i'm here in the park where the museum isand i'm walking to the museum now. this park is huge.
this is the museum - okay let's go in! so this is known as a photo studio. we're going to go in. you have to take your shoes off when you goinside. the first restored house that i went intowas the tokiwadai photo studio. this photography studio used to be in tokiwadai,which was developed as a "healthy residential area". since lighting equipment for photography wasnot fully developed in those days, frosted glass was used for the second-floor windowson the north side of the studio for lighting
purposes. i really loved the space in this studio. i loved of course the lighting and i thinkjust in general, a lot of japanese homes are very open and light, which i love. this is now the second floor of the residenceof hachirouemon mitsui. i abolished that name just now- sorry! this house was built in nishi-azabu, minatoward, in 1952. the guest room and the dining room were builtaround 1897 in kyoto and relocated after the the second world war.
the storehouse, which dates back to 1874,has been restored to its original condition. i loved the lushness of the carpets when youenter the home, but more specifically on the second floor i loved the airiness. the open spaces and windows. i think this is where people slept, so couldyou imagine just waking up to these huge windows overlooking beautiful forests and everything? i also really loved the kitchen in this home. its a massive kitchen and obviously this homewas very high-end and it housed people of importance.
i just loved how big it is and i loved theisland. it's awesome! later on you see the plush red carpet, whichis giving me life. i also had the opportunity to speak with oneof the staff of the museum and she just explained to me that even though the home was developedin 1952, the owner had been collecting pieces from other relatives' homes in kyoto and soa lot of the elements and details in the home are from way earlier than the edo period. this is why i moved to japan - to learn aboutjapanese history and culture and i felt like i've been missing that since i moved hereso just another sign that coming to the museum
was great! this is the farmhouse of the yoshino family. this house was built in the latter part ofthe edo period. the yoshino family administered nozaki village,which is present-day mitaka city, in the edo period. the prestigious architectural style featuresan entrance hall with a shikidai, a low, broad wooden step, and a fixed desk in the innerroom, which are characteristics of upper-classes houses. despite the fact that this farmhouse was very dark and smelled really smoky, i
really loved the details here. you can see how amazingly constructed andsturdy the building was with the use of natural natural resources. once again, i just really loved the open space. they still have the tools to showcase howfood was prepared. it was a really nice experience. you can see the clay ovens and other tools. i was able to sit down with the children andadults and make bracelets, which was super fun.
there was some confusion on my end becausei didn't understand what the woman was telling me to do, but in the end it all worked outand i came out with a bracelet, which looked lovely. okay so that was awkward and nice. i got to make my own bracelet. look how cute it is - i love it. you can't even see it! this building is the house of the leader ofthe hachioji guards. the hachioji thousand warriors were the retainersof the tokugawa shogunate family, who were
deployed to hachioji in the edo period. the house of the retainers' head, which usedto stand at the site bestowed by the shogun, is not as big as the surrounding farmhouses. however, the fact that it has an entrancehall with a shikidai, a low, broad wooden step, which is a standard feature of upper-classhouses, shows that it was house of prestige. now this building surprised me and stuck outlike a sore thumb! i was like, "this is a western house amongstall these japanese homes!" this is the house of georg de lalande. this house is a western-style home that wasoriginally built in shinanomachi, shinjuku
ward. the german architect georg de laland, enlargedthe house around 1910, transforming it into a three-story wooden structure. the house came under various owners over theyears, but from 1956, mishima kaiun, the inventor of the lactic acid beverage calpis, livedthere. so i sort of got my taste of newport, rhodeisland with that american house - actually, it's not american, "it's western." i think it would have been really nice ifthey had furniture and actually furnished the whole house, but i guess since that househad so many different owners and had different
purposes. . . it was house, now it's like a house/ restaurant,before it was place of business. so this house was my absolute favorite outof all of the homes that i'd seen at the open air architectural museum. this house was the house of kunio mayekawa. it was built in 1942 by the architect kuniomayekawa, for himself, in kami-osaki, shinigawa he contributed to the development of modernarchitecture in japan. the house was built during the second worldwar when it was difficult to procure building materials.
it has a japanese-style gabled roof and asimple layout consisting of a study and bedrooms around a living room with a vaulted ceiling. i loved how open and spacious this room was. i think and i felt really strongly about mirroringmy home and my house after the elements in this home. for instance, the huge wall of just windowsand then at the bottom, you have the sliding doors - that is everything to me. i really love it- it brings in so much light! i also really loved the bathroom.
the bathroom was my second favorite sectionof this house and the kitchen was my third. look at that farm sink! even though the building was built in 1942,the house was designed for the museum how people would use it in 1955. i thought the bathroom was super modern andi loved the wooden ceiling. it was very simple and minimalist. i loved it! on the other side of the park/ museum, thisis the east zone and it's just shops during the edo period.
there were soy sauce shops and stationaryshops. and food markets, and tailor shops. all of these old goods and tools displayedin the restored buildings gave you the atmosphere of the downtown area of the olden days. it really rounded out the edo period duringthis time for me and how things looked. it helped me to connect with how things continueto look here in japan. of course now there are elements that existtoday and even outside of my apartment right now. i just can't see it because it's shroudedby plants and stuff.
so i really enjoyed walking and checking outthe public bathhouse. i took a few pictures of this section on myblog so you can always check out themugglechronicles.com to look at additional pictures of my timeat the open air airchtecural museum. so i am back in the house from edo tokyo openair museum and i just wanted to end the vlog. i'm tired and already changed into my loungewear. it was so fun and i didn't expect to spendso many hours there. it was past three hours by the time i left. i was really tired did a lot of walking aroundbut it was so good. i'll probably go again because there was anotherhouse.
i didn't see everything. by the end of it, it was time to get out ofthere. so i sort of rushed through the end. there's one house that i didn't look at becauseapparently a man was assassinated inside of it. i was like, "i'm not walking inside that house...alone! no.. no no. not without anyone. that's like way too - that's bad juju!"
i'll probably just wait until i can go withsomeone else and then the other home was under construction so i couldn't see that one. but i really loved how they had the houseson one side and then on the other side it was a little town. i really appreciated that. so if you're ever in tokyo, make your way outto the edo open air museum and i think you'll really enjoy it and learn a lot about japanesehistory. i was able to connect and get some littletrinkets and gifts from my experience there! it was really cool and the people were reallynice and straightforward!
you do have to pay a 400 yen fee, but to meit's worth it. i spent 3 hours there taking it all in! i got my money's worth and i think everythingwas well done! they have an english guide that tells youall about the houses. some of the staff are even english-speaking. that's the end of the vlog today! i hope that you all are doing really well. tell me if you're really into this historicalstuff. do you like period rooms, checking out museums?
are you a museum nerd like me? let me know! tell me how your day's going cause i'd liketo learn more about you. comment and subscribe and like the channeland share the channel if you enjoy it! talk to you later! bye!
good morning - well. it's almost afternoon, but hi guys! so today i just wanted to vlog. i'm gonna check out this edo-tokyo architecturalmuseum. it seems pretty cool and like you know whenyou go to the met or any other museums where
Edo Open Air Museum, they have those period rooms, this is prettymuch a whole museum of homes built during the edo period so pretty much this museum- the whole point is to take you into that era and explore daily life and how thingslooked during that time. i love and i'm a sucker for.
i studied history in college so i love seeinghow people live and viewing that through an anthropological aspect and just observingthings. i'm going to take some video, record and showyou guys what it looks like because i've seen seen pictures and it looks pretty good. so i just washed my hair yesterday and itfeels so nice and fluffy and it smells great, but it looks a bit weird or misshapen. but it's okay - at least its clean, right? this is the area that i live in. it's pretty residential, suburban.
there seems to be a huge interest in gamblingso there's a lot of pachinko slots places. i never see any rice fields ever. i mostly just see small farms - a lot of gardeninghere, which is cool. and of course, you know they drive on theleft-side of the road and the cars here are so cute and small. i think that's because the streets are sonarrow. that's a regular-size car, but this car issuper narrow. so i'm here in the park where the museum isand i'm walking to the museum now. this park is huge.
this is the museum - okay let's go in! so this is known as a photo studio. we're going to go in. you have to take your shoes off when you goinside. the first restored house that i went intowas the tokiwadai photo studio. this photography studio used to be in tokiwadai,which was developed as a "healthy residential area". since lighting equipment for photography wasnot fully developed in those days, frosted glass was used for the second-floor windowson the north side of the studio for lighting
purposes. i really loved the space in this studio. i loved of course the lighting and i thinkjust in general, a lot of japanese homes are very open and light, which i love. this is now the second floor of the residenceof hachirouemon mitsui. i abolished that name just now- sorry! this house was built in nishi-azabu, minatoward, in 1952. the guest room and the dining room were builtaround 1897 in kyoto and relocated after the the second world war.
the storehouse, which dates back to 1874,has been restored to its original condition. i loved the lushness of the carpets when youenter the home, but more specifically on the second floor i loved the airiness. the open spaces and windows. i think this is where people slept, so couldyou imagine just waking up to these huge windows overlooking beautiful forests and everything? i also really loved the kitchen in this home. its a massive kitchen and obviously this homewas very high-end and it housed people of importance.
i just loved how big it is and i loved theisland. it's awesome! later on you see the plush red carpet, whichis giving me life. i also had the opportunity to speak with oneof the staff of the museum and she just explained to me that even though the home was developedin 1952, the owner had been collecting pieces from other relatives' homes in kyoto and soa lot of the elements and details in the home are from way earlier than the edo period. this is why i moved to japan - to learn aboutjapanese history and culture and i felt like i've been missing that since i moved hereso just another sign that coming to the museum
was great! this is the farmhouse of the yoshino family. this house was built in the latter part ofthe edo period. the yoshino family administered nozaki village,which is present-day mitaka city, in the edo period. the prestigious architectural style featuresan entrance hall with a shikidai, a low, broad wooden step, and a fixed desk in the innerroom, which are characteristics of upper-classes houses. despite the fact that this farmhouse was very dark and smelled really smoky, i
really loved the details here. you can see how amazingly constructed andsturdy the building was with the use of natural natural resources. once again, i just really loved the open space. they still have the tools to showcase howfood was prepared. it was a really nice experience. you can see the clay ovens and other tools. i was able to sit down with the children andadults and make bracelets, which was super fun.
there was some confusion on my end becausei didn't understand what the woman was telling me to do, but in the end it all worked outand i came out with a bracelet, which looked lovely. okay so that was awkward and nice. i got to make my own bracelet. look how cute it is - i love it. you can't even see it! this building is the house of the leader ofthe hachioji guards. the hachioji thousand warriors were the retainersof the tokugawa shogunate family, who were
deployed to hachioji in the edo period. the house of the retainers' head, which usedto stand at the site bestowed by the shogun, is not as big as the surrounding farmhouses. however, the fact that it has an entrancehall with a shikidai, a low, broad wooden step, which is a standard feature of upper-classhouses, shows that it was house of prestige. now this building surprised me and stuck outlike a sore thumb! i was like, "this is a western house amongstall these japanese homes!" this is the house of georg de lalande. this house is a western-style home that wasoriginally built in shinanomachi, shinjuku
ward. the german architect georg de laland, enlargedthe house around 1910, transforming it into a three-story wooden structure. the house came under various owners over theyears, but from 1956, mishima kaiun, the inventor of the lactic acid beverage calpis, livedthere. so i sort of got my taste of newport, rhodeisland with that american house - actually, it's not american, "it's western." i think it would have been really nice ifthey had furniture and actually furnished the whole house, but i guess since that househad so many different owners and had different
purposes. . . it was house, now it's like a house/ restaurant,before it was place of business. so this house was my absolute favorite outof all of the homes that i'd seen at the open air architectural museum. this house was the house of kunio mayekawa. it was built in 1942 by the architect kuniomayekawa, for himself, in kami-osaki, shinigawa he contributed to the development of modernarchitecture in japan. the house was built during the second worldwar when it was difficult to procure building materials.
it has a japanese-style gabled roof and asimple layout consisting of a study and bedrooms around a living room with a vaulted ceiling. i loved how open and spacious this room was. i think and i felt really strongly about mirroringmy home and my house after the elements in this home. for instance, the huge wall of just windowsand then at the bottom, you have the sliding doors - that is everything to me. i really love it- it brings in so much light! i also really loved the bathroom.
the bathroom was my second favorite sectionof this house and the kitchen was my third. look at that farm sink! even though the building was built in 1942,the house was designed for the museum how people would use it in 1955. i thought the bathroom was super modern andi loved the wooden ceiling. it was very simple and minimalist. i loved it! on the other side of the park/ museum, thisis the east zone and it's just shops during the edo period.
there were soy sauce shops and stationaryshops. and food markets, and tailor shops. all of these old goods and tools displayedin the restored buildings gave you the atmosphere of the downtown area of the olden days. it really rounded out the edo period duringthis time for me and how things looked. it helped me to connect with how things continueto look here in japan. of course now there are elements that existtoday and even outside of my apartment right now. i just can't see it because it's shroudedby plants and stuff.
so i really enjoyed walking and checking outthe public bathhouse. i took a few pictures of this section on myblog so you can always check out themugglechronicles.com to look at additional pictures of my timeat the open air airchtecural museum. so i am back in the house from edo tokyo openair museum and i just wanted to end the vlog. i'm tired and already changed into my loungewear. it was so fun and i didn't expect to spendso many hours there. it was past three hours by the time i left. i was really tired did a lot of walking aroundbut it was so good. i'll probably go again because there was anotherhouse.
i didn't see everything. by the end of it, it was time to get out ofthere. so i sort of rushed through the end. there's one house that i didn't look at becauseapparently a man was assassinated inside of it. i was like, "i'm not walking inside that house...alone! no.. no no. not without anyone. that's like way too - that's bad juju!"
i'll probably just wait until i can go withsomeone else and then the other home was under construction so i couldn't see that one. but i really loved how they had the houseson one side and then on the other side it was a little town. i really appreciated that. so if you're ever in tokyo, make your way outto the edo open air museum and i think you'll really enjoy it and learn a lot about japanesehistory. i was able to connect and get some littletrinkets and gifts from my experience there! it was really cool and the people were reallynice and straightforward!
you do have to pay a 400 yen fee, but to meit's worth it. i spent 3 hours there taking it all in! i got my money's worth and i think everythingwas well done! they have an english guide that tells youall about the houses. some of the staff are even english-speaking. that's the end of the vlog today! i hope that you all are doing really well. tell me if you're really into this historicalstuff. do you like period rooms, checking out museums?
are you a museum nerd like me? let me know! tell me how your day's going cause i'd liketo learn more about you. comment and subscribe and like the channeland share the channel if you enjoy it! talk to you later! bye!