Went to the Japanese national museum of nature and science in Ueno today. Absolutely breathtaking. Totally forgot to take any pictures I was so in awe. DID however take this one
With the comment of "why the fuck does anybody want a boring fucking diamond when you could have beautiful, interesting stones like this?????"
I mean, fuck "precious" stones. Give me quartz and schist and other "rocks" like that!
Oh whoops forgot to caption that. It's a display case featuring a huge example of quartz of a type called "Japanese twin" according to the sign. There's a huge flat clear crystal with a tree-like white substance inside, standing upright (seriously it's like a foot across and tall almost I think?? I'm bad at measurements but it was big), on a base of yellowy, large, nodule-like crystal clusters
