Facing the Sky, Ocean, and Kinkasan at the Edge of the Peninsula
The white road extends through the woods, up toward the sky, and to the sea. Approaching Kinka san, at the point where waves are visible, can’t you see the birds frolicking there? That is the place to rediscover nature.（SHIMABUKU）
- AYUKAWA AREA
- MADE IN 2019
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- PLACE ： Manjishita-1-5 , Ayukawahama, Ishinomaki
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SHIMABUKU
Artist. Born in 1969 in Kobe, Japan. After living in Berlin, Germany for 12 years, Shimabuku moved to Naha in 2017 where he is currently based. From the beginning of the 1990s, he has travelled to various places in Japan and overseas, creating performances and installations that consider the daily lives and cultures of people he encounters, as well as new forms of communication. Full of poetic sentiment and humor while also inspiring people in metaphorical ways, his style has gained a worldwide reputation. Shimabuku has participated in group shows at Centre Pompidou in Paris and Hayward Gallery in London, and in numerous international exhibitions including Venice Biennale (2003, 2017), the São Paulo Biennial (2006), Havana Biennal (2015) and Lyon Biennale (2017). He also participated in the previous Reborn-Art Festival, presenting a work called Erect at Norihama in Ayukawa. Large-scale solo exhibitions are planned in 2020 throughout Europe. His work is in the collections of various art museums and art centers, including Centre Pompidou and Noveau Musee National de Monaco in Monaco. His books include Opening the Door (Little More Books), and the picture book Cucumber Journey (Shogakukan).
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Photo : Noguchi Rika
AYUKAWA AREA
Ayukawa is at the southern end of the Oshika Peninsula, about a one-hour drive from the city center. There is a spectacular sea view of Kinkasan Island, one of the three great mystical sites of Oshu (the old name of northeastern Honshu). Off the coast of Kinkasan is one of the world’s three most abundant fisheries, where the Kuroshio and Oyashio ocean currents meet, and the area once flourished as a base for whaling. "Ayukawahama Visitors Center" is scheduled to open here in 2019. "Whale Town Oshika" will open in 2020.
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White Deer (Oshika)
KOHEI NAWA
A Stray Deer Whose Expression Changes According to the Time
White Deer (Oshika)
KOHEI NAWA
Since ancient times, deer have been regarded as divine messengers or divine creatures in such beliefs as animism and Shinto. With their numbers increasing in Japan in recent years, the deer that sometimes appear in villages are called “stray deer”.（Kohei Nawa）
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White Road
SHIMABUKU
Facing the Sky, Ocean, and Kinkasan at the Edge of the Peninsula
White Road
SHIMABUKU
The white road extends through the woods, up toward the sky, and to the sea. Approaching Kinkasan, at the point where waves are visible, can’t you see the birds frolicking there? That is the place to rediscover nature.（SHIMABUKU）
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room KINKAZAN
GOZO YOSHIMASU
The Room That a Poet Keeps Visiting
room KINKAZAN
GOZO YOSHIMASU
A room on the second floor of Hotel New Sakai is an exhibition space where Gozo Yoshimasu always stayed when he came to Ayukawa to prepare for his exhibition. Here you can see these newborn poems, which he wrote while gazing out at Kinkasan, and the place where Yoshimasu created his work. （GOZO YOSHIMASU）
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Microcosmos -Melody-
MASUDA SEBASTIAN
A Resplendent Piano Newly Installed in Front of the Station
Microcosmos -Melody-
MASUDA SEBASTIAN
Surrounded as we are by things we cannot control, I want this work to bring color to the hearts of everyone. I hope the piano serves as a tool for different generations to communicate and allows everyone to make colorful melodies together.（Sebastian Masuda）
