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The Netherlands Trip Day 3 (1):The Royal Palace

On Day 3, I went to the Dutch Royal Palace in the central area in Amsterdam. I don’t know why but I’ve been interested in a court culture in Europe since I was a boy. I majored in European history for my bachelor and got interested in a complex of European history dynamics: from a dynasty to a dynasty, from monarchy to republic, from Roman empire to the Catholic world. Among them, the court culture which was kind of a nest to the classical arts and music we are still enjoying sparks my curiosity; as a Patron, they supported various artists and many masterpieces were born with some financial backup from noble/high-class families. The monarch and its family in European countries were also great supports to the beautiful arts. Moses' Room, the abdication of throne Usually, the new Monarch appears followed by the former Monarch passed away, e.g. the King Charles III of Britain was enthroned followed by death of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. That said, for the Dutch Royal Fam...

The Netherlands Trip Day 2-(2): Rijskmuseum/National museum in Amsterdam

The Netherlands bore varous artists throughout the history and Rijskmuseum has a lot of collections by those Dutch genius. I'd known several masterpieces by Vermeer but I also came to know Rembrandt from reading a Japanese book called " Gairo-wo-yuku(街路をゆく )" or "Walking the road" by a famous Japanese writer Shiba Ryotaro (司馬遼太郎 1923-1996) . Shiba is famous for historical novels but he also travelled around the world and left a series of travel essays. He'd been to the Netherlands twice in 1980s in the middle of the Cold War and wrote about his experiences in one of the essays.  In his book, he mentioned his enthusiasm to Rembrandt's paintings, which sparked my curiosity. Fortunately,  Rijskmuseum has the genuine "Night Watch", one of the famous paintings by Rembrandt, about which Shiba intensively mentioned in his book. The "Night Watch" was under its renovation work; it was hung in a renovation room in the museum's oval room. We...