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Jan
Gates of Hell World Tour
Topic: Family and Friends, Japan 2007
Sharing a similar sense of humor, Maria and I decided to have our formal wedding photos taken in front of Rodin’s Gates of Hell, near the Stanford Memorial Church, where we were married in 1999.
We stumbled across another copy of the Gates in Ueno Park, a few days after we got here. Kai was kind enough to take the picture for us. This prompted me to look up the Gates online, and it turns out the one in Ueno Park is one of the three original bronze casts, made in 1917 (the Stanford one is a later copy). The other two originals are in Philadelphia and Paris. So, we plan to visit the Philly one for a photo when we get back home, and Maria has a conference in Paris in 2009. Assuming the boys and I can arrange our schedules to go with her, we can get our picture taken with that one too ;-).
We only made a brief stop at Ueno Park that day, we plan to return to check out its zoo and many museums.
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