Sightseeing

This past Tuesday I went to do some sightseeing around Tokyo. The first place I visited was The Tokyo-Edo Museum. This museum shows how Edo became the capital of Japan. It has a lot of interesting information that you don't commonly come across about Japan. One thing that surprised me that I learned there was that, the majority of the Samurai were actually poor and struggled to make ends meet. We usually hear about the Way of the warrior and all that but it was interesting to see that these men were like any other, simply trying to raise a family in a very hostile world. The world really hasn't changed much. I don't have a lot pictures because you weren't allowed to take pictures at certain exhibits...they usually were the ones that I wanted to take a picture. Go figure. Before I got yelled at for taking a video, I got a women singing a song while playing the shamisen. Enjoy the illegal footage. Hehe.