Foreword
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding the '1st Exhibition on Art, Culture, and Life in Touch with Japanese Plants' at Scenic Yokohama Sankeien Garden. The group's activities are aimed at introducing "natural features, lifestyle techniques, and materials" from various parts of Japan, "improving motivation to produce excellent materials", and "contributing to the culture of Japan". By continuing to hold exhibitions, it is a place to create opportunities for information dissemination and innovation that will make traditional cultural industries sustainable.
This time, we will present it as a spatial art set in a style architecture. While incorporating modern science and technology, We tried to create a form of a story that has been handed down from ancient times as a spatial art.In addition, we will exhibit works created with a focus on "region, technology, and materials" in the national important cultural propert "Tomyoji Hondo" in Sankeien, as well as records compiled in panels and videos.The exhibition hall consists of panels and video clips that introduce the climate, culture, technology and art records of Kyoto and Ishikawa Prefecture, as well as works that incorporate modern science and technology and have been completed over and over again.
It was difficult to decide on a title, but I borrowed from a line that appears in Noh master Zeami's book "Kadensho". It is about the path of performing arts from youth to old age, but it is about the halfway point of about 50 years old. “The older you get, the less you can do other than do nothing, but the flowers that have grown on you have survived even after the branches and leaves have fallen and the tree has grown old. It can be said that it is the evidence of the flowers that remained on the old bones that had formed in the past."
While exploring Japanese classical works and historical architecture through the exhibition, you will be able to appreciate Japan's endemic plant species at the end of the exhibition. For example, in Noh, there is a style called gobandate, which was originally divided into themes of God, man, woman, madness, and demons, but this time the garden and The gejin are connected as one world. In order to do so, I assigned five three-dimensional works to the Gobandate format. At The Naijin, we have set up “camellia japonica -yabutsubaki-”, which grows in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, and Ramie textiles, a pottery that originated in the Muromachi period. In this way, we have created a cultural space through the garden and old architecture as a whole, making it an exhibition where you can experience the attempts at traditional innovations installed in each place and the crafts and performing arts rooted in the region. We hope that this opportunity will be one step leading to the innovation of Japanese traditions, including participating businesses.
Long-lasting traditions bring flowers suitable for each moment, but they are the miracles of the activities and steps of life accumulated day by day. I would appreciate it if you could share it with everyone.