The first exhibition in Russia from the Tokyo National Museum - «Camurai. Treasures of the military aristocracy of Japan »opens on Wednesday. Zalah State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin

The first exhibition in Russia from the Tokyo National Museum - «Camurai. Treasures of the military aristocracy of Japan »- opens on Wednesday. Zalah State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin.

Exposition Odnostolpnoy place in the Chamber of the Patriarch Palace and the exhibition hall of the Assumption belfry. The exhibition «Samurai» presented items received in Japan the status of national treasures. And, as the museum director told reporters the Kremlin Yelena Gagarina, this is not the treasures in the broadest sense, a highly flourishing period of samurai nobility. Visitors will see a collection of swords - the most revered of samurai culture, including the oldest in the Japanese sword dated XI century. In addition exhibit includes armor, masks, elements of horse harness, as well as unique items related to the life of samurai. Among the main exhibits - three sets of samurai armor Edo period (XVII century), decorated with family coats of arms in the form of mallow leaves are included in the circle, and red circles on his chest cuirass, shoulder strap and nabedrennikah.

There are shitye gold costumes theater but to demonstrate the amazing possibilities of artistic weaving and embroidery of Edo period. Among them there are karaori - the most magnificent apparel of all the costumes from the theater But the pattern of the pion flowers, branches of young pine trees and peacock feathers. As noted in the press service, the organization of exhibitions in Russia has taken almost five years.

curator of the exhibition, Deputy General diroktora the Moscow Kremlin State Museums Zelfira Tregulova announced that it will be Russia's first full exhibition of treasures from the collection of a Japanese museum. Prior to this, in Russia exhibited only individual items. The exhibition will be a continuation of the cycle «Royal and Imperial treasures in the Moscow Kremlin», which the museum opened in 2004, the exposition «The Treasures of the French Crown», where precious objects were presented to Louis XIV from the Louvre. Also scheduled exhibition «Two centuries of British fashion. From the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London ». The exhibition starting on 3 September 2008, it will be presented 20 unique costumes.

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