"Treasures, of Ancient China" a major exhibition now at the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno Park, features a wealth of visual information and artifacts. In a process that took two years to complete, the four curators selected an amazing array of items from 50 museums in China, including both recent archaeological finds as well as 1,000 years of Buddhist art.
Speaking recently about the scope of the exhibition, the museum's senior curator of Chinese archaeology, Toyonobu Tani, said: "The wealth of artifacts on display at the exhibition is representative of the extent to which important archaeological finds have been unearthed in recent years. This is an extremely rare opportunity, as it is the first showing of these items outside of China."
Seventy archaeological finds from royal tombs have been grouped into three main categories in the exhibition: jade objects; terra cotta figurines; and bronze vessels.