The field trip

So, we went to the Asian Art Museum as the first field trip of the school year today. We went to see, in particular, the samurai exhibit that they have right now. Mom is making me write an essay here, so here it is.

We went to The Lords Of The Samurai exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco as a field trip today. The exhibit is a series of relics from one samurai family, to be exact, the Hosokawa family, to show the life a daimyo, or samurai lord. The family had a crest that consisted of eight small circles surrounding a central, larger one. Most, if not all of the items in the exhibit had the crest on them.

Of the items there, one thing that really caught my eye was a set of boxes. These boxes, while they seemed simple, were used in a game where people would try to identify incenses. The people would bring their own incenses and the other members of the group would try to identify the incense and determine which one they liked the best. The set of boxes had a total of 148 of the Hosokawa family crests on the them.

There were also quite a few different samurai suits of armor at the exhibit. The suits of armor each took about a day to assemble, because they were so fragile and had to be put together carefully, due to the fact that they were held together by a large series of ceremonial knots, all elaborately and perfectly done.

There were also lots of paintings, scrolls, saddles, swords and tea equipment, but I liked the armor and the box the best. The exhibit is in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and ends on September 20th.