We visited the museum while in the area and were pleasantly surprised. The exhibit about city impression was very interesting.

six museums inside university good x killing time waiting for classes

Good collection

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It is a nice place and beautiful

This museum bears the name of Yaichi Aizu, a scholar of art history and Oriental art who served as a professor at Waseda University, in commemoration of his achievements. The museum is in Building No. 2 on Waseda Campus, right near Okuma Auditorium. Admission is free. It's an old building, and the building itself seems to have historical value. Around the grand staircase in the center of the building, in the atrium rising from the entrance hall, hangs the dynamic "Meian" (Light and Darkness), a joint work by Taikan Yokoyama and Kanzan Shimomura that depicts light and shadow in contrast. It catches your eye as soon as you enter the building. It's magnificent. The permanent exhibition centers on Oriental art and archaeological and ethnological materials, including ancient Chinese mingqi, bronze mirrors, and roof tiles and tile ends from China, Korea, and Japan collected by Yaichi Aizu, along with Yaichi Aizu's own calligraphy, letters, and related materials. In the Grand Gallery, from Monday, March 23 to Sunday, May 31, 2026, the 【Special Exhibition】 "A Gaze Toward Yungang: The Chinese Buddhist Sites Seen by Seiyo Ogawa" is being held. Buddhist statue photographer Seiyo Ogawa visited the magnificent Buddhist site of the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi Province, China, and left behind many rubbings and sketches of the reliefs inside the grottoes. Through these, I was able to fully appreciate what the Yungang Grottoes that captivated Seiyo Ogawa were like. In particular, the "rubbings of the reliefs" had a special charm that photographs don't have. Also, Seiyo Ogawa's writings clearly conveyed the feelings of the Japanese people who worked hard to preserve these sites.

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