national museum of western art

National Museum of Western Art

Went to Ueno to check out the George de La Tour exhibit at NMWA. Fairly interesting -- neat to see how many of the works are copies, and how they use X-rays and infrared to authenticate the originals. La Tour's not one of my favorites, but he's got that wrinkled-clothing-by-candlelight thing down, and it just looks so cool.
The museum's regular collection is ok, I guess; some paintings by artists I've seeen or heard of before, but nothing really gripping.
After the museum we walked down to Ameyoko for the Last Great Bargains in Tokyo. We passed fishmongers with stacks of fresh cut maguro slabs for ridiculously cheap, bags of nuts and crackers and fruit-on-a-stick and cheap ties and rip-off brand name sportswear before finally hitting the candy store and loading up on sugary goodness. Two overflowing shopping bags for less than 3000 yen.

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