Discover four exhibition zones and engage your senses—through touch, sight, and smell.
Enjoy videos and hands-on interactive experiences as well.
Discover four exhibition zones and engage your senses—through touch, sight, and smell.
Enjoy videos and hands-on interactive experiences as well.
Combining
Cultivating, processing,
and assembling wood
Building with wood brings together foresters’ understanding of trees and carpenters’ skill and ingenuity. Trees are planted from seedlings, protected from underbrush, trimmed and tended to grow for over a century. Master carpenters cut, carve, and shape timber so that it can be joined in architectural forms. Here we look at the wisdom and the aesthetic embedded in those endeavors.
Roofing
Thatching and shingling
with plants and bark
Roofs are shingled and thatched from plant-based materials bundled and layered in order to protect against wind and rain. Skilled hands peel tree bark, gather and cut grasses for thatch, split wood for shingles; they dry it, sort it, and bundle it, in due course to be carefully placed and piled up to create a roof, its shape embodying the interaction of materials and skills.
Intertwining
Weaving, plaiting,
and binding with plants
Fine and flexible materials are used to weave and fabricate things, giving shape to the furnishings of daily life. Bamboo, rushes, and reeds are cut and fashioned by plaiting and twisting into the designs and functions of daily life—a world of gentle, textured arts where materials and handcraft intertwine.
Connecting
Nurturing nature and
transmitting skills
Connecting people to people, urban and rural, and past and future, the making of things by hand continues. People cultivate, harvest, and hand down resources, move their hands, and put their heads together in the fabrication of things. The relationship between materials and hands has long been put asunder by the rapid rise of modernization and mass-production. What can we do to connect craft to nature’s resources once more for the needs of a new era? Focusing our attention on the plants around us, this exhibition hopes to shed renewed light on the wisdom and skills that have been passed down to us.
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植物×匠
めぐるいのち、つなぐ手しごと
