Minpaku
The National Museum of Ethnology
(Link to the museum)

This is one of the finest ethnological museums in the world, comparable to the Berlin Ethnological Museum.

 

 

The museum lobby with sound and video booths on the left.

 

An actual Ainu house consecration ceremony being held in the Ainu House in the museum.

 

Japanese festival folk storks

 

A jeepney from the Philippines

 

Turkish Karagoz shadow puppets

 

A kumpit from the Sulu Islands, The Philippines

 

Nembuta processional float from Northern Japan

 

Below: Part of a collection of Balinese dance masks

 

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Robert Garfias