Never in my life would I ever have thought I’d have a dress on display in a museum exhibition in Europe. This is exactly what happened and I decided to visit the Cool Japan exhibition in person at Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden, Netherlands.

MUSEUM VOLKENKUNDE – COOL JAPAN EXHIBITION
Seeing My Dress On Display in Leiden, Netherlands

HOW IT HAPPENED

Just 2-3 months into starting my blog late last year, I received an e-mail from Museum Volkenkunde.

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In the last post Reimagining Erotic Fantasies: The Handmaiden, Part 1 I talked a little about the recent Park Chan-Wook movie, The Handmaiden. If you haven’t seen it, get off your butt (after finising this post) and go see it! It is deceptive, dark, humorous and erotically charged. In today’s post I will delve further into Lady Hideko’s disturbing childhood and examine a few symbols that recur throughout the movie.

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