Yokohama
(July 20, 2008, Japan)
Our feet took us today toYokohama wherein childhood days are rekindled in the world of toys…
In the Tin Toys Museum, Teruhisa Kitahara’s collection of 3,000 tin toys produced from the 1890’s to the 1960’s is displayed here. he museum exhibits a part of curator Teruhisa Kitahara’s tin toy collection that he started around 1973. The exhibition comprises around 3,000 items mostly manufactured in
Japan between the 1890’s and 1960’s, and the ways they move are introduced on video. The collection illustrates the various trends in toys throughout history. As early as 1920s pre war Japanese toys to 1960s Baby Boomer Toys. You name it, the toy museum has it. If you like robots, space rockets, Batman items, Ultraman toys, Popeye toys or Mickey Mouse, this museum has them, and you will definitely be astonished just by looking at them.
As a colllector of frog items in the Philippines, it gave me more interest in my pursuit of establishing the biggest museum for frog collectibles.
Then we hopped to the Doll Museum. In 1927, the port of Yokohama became the site of this dollhouse that features approximately 13,000 pieces of ethnic dolls, which represent the lifestyles of 140 countries. Now features displays of blue-eyed dolls, which contributed to cultural exchange between Japan and America
, along with documentary photographs of those days. Also displayed are traditional Japanese festive dolls and local dolls, as well as mechanical dolls. Starting with a collection of 3,149 dolls from 92 countries, the collection has been enriched over the years and now stands at 12,926 dolls from 140 countries.
We capped the day with watching fireworks at the pier with many Japanese most of them in their native kimonos, both male and female
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