東京最終日は正月休みからようやく開館した江戸東京博物館。
The last day in Tokyo was for a visit to Edo Tokyo Museum.
It was closed for the New Year's holiday and just reopened.
まずは日本の古きお人形さんたちによる華麗なるパフォーマンス。
First, we watched splended performances by these tranditional Japanese dolls.
動くとこうなります。撮り手が不慣れですみません。
These are how he moved. Sorry about the poor performance
by the camera-person.
もう一つはこちらのビデオを拝借。
Got a link for the other one.
他にも色々と高度な技を披露する人形が次から次へと舞台に現れ、
観客は拍手喝采。ロボットもすごいけど、その前衛たる日本のゼンマイおそるべし。
And there came more and more dolls displaying their skillful performances
and awed the audience. Robots are impressive, but the precursor to that
was this incredible Japanese clockwork.
そして巨人となって江戸の街を見下ろし、
Then we became giants looking down on Edo Town,
sold some fish in an old fashion way,
昔ながらの格好で魚を売り、
人力車で一息つきました。
and had a break on a rickshaw.
あっという間に出発の時間です。駅で横綱と背比べをして、電車で空港へ。
In no time, it was time to depart. After compared the heights
with famous sumo wrestlers, we took a train to the airport.
さよなら、日本。
Bye bye, Japan.
