Once again, I went to the museum that is going to celebrate its second anniversary this month. The Manga Museum, which establised at the site of former Tatsuike Elementary School, still keeps some of the 1929 buildings. Currently it is holding an exhibit called "HEIAN - Grace & Mystery of MANGA in the ancient KYOTO," show casing Manga from Kyoto during the era that the Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji) was written in the Heian Period (794-1180). It was quite interesting and mysterious for me to see such an exhibit (1000-year old) in a building (100-year old). It is said that over 450,000 people visited the museum since then, and yesterday, I witnessed over 100 visitors including foreign tourists there despite of a weekday.#
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