Mori Art Museum & The Sumida Hokusai Museum — Tokyo

The Mori Art Museum was incredible to experience, there was such a wide array of works on display revolving around different classroom subjects which each room was theme’d on. There was a mixture of media utilised in the contemporary art, from photography to painting. All providing the viewer an opportunity to witness how Japanese education succeeds and how it fails in its teaching of a younger generation.

A personal museum highlight for me was the Sumida Hokusai Museum. As a printmaking student, and future practitioner, it was a must to experience these prints in person. Something interesting I learned when visiting however, was the fact that Hokusai (while designing and carving these beautiful works) was not always producing the prints himself - rather using master printers in a collaborative process. I loved this, and I felt like it spoke to the very Japanese culture of being a master of your own craft, and respecting the skills of others.