Fram Kitagawa, general director of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, has been involved in various activities for a long time. His work on picture books and his ...

　　　→ 日本語版 Since this art festival has continued in the same region for 24 years, the presence of time emerges. Various time axes appear in the artworks. Hiroshi...

The English word “landscape” includes scenery, landscape, townscape, topography, etc. One of the attractions of art festivals set in local communities is the la...

The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial made me think about the real and fake issues in art....

面積760m2、人口７万人の妻有地域を舞台に行われる大地の芸術祭。2000年に始まり、2022年で８回を数え、１回目は16万人だった来訪者も、8回目には60万人近くに成長しました。 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial is taken place in Tsumari with an area o...

The 9th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is held this 2024. 24 years have passed since the first one....

Kelong is a facility that anchored offshore and harvested fish. This device embodies fishing that respects the law of nature without relying on machines or bott...

The Chinese floating village of Sengarang was a place like a town. It had a shopping street and an Internet cafe....

Penyengat Island is a Malay floating village. Many houses were colorfully-painted and well-maintained as if to reflect the brightness of people. Such a village ...

Pulau Bintan (Bintan Island) is a treasure trove of floating villages on the water. Typical floating village in Southeast Asia is Kawal, a village of Indonesian...

The central city in Palau Bintan, Tanjung Pinang, has a rich hilly landscape. The residential district on the hill had a calm and favorable impression. Meanwhil...

A Tachi-Nebuta float in Goshogawara is 23 meters high and weighs 20 tons. A Tachi-Nebuta float stands out on the skyline of the townscape. It power overwhelms s...

Hiroski Neputa gives a gentle and profound atmosphere in the darkness. Other attraction is to see the communication scene between the men and women beyond a gen...

During one week at the beginning of August,the delight of Nebuta fills Aomori city. Before Covid 19, tourists more than 3 million visit this big festival, and p...

Ibukijima island is the only place in Japan where the capital (Kyoto) dialect in the old days remains....

Traditional events are memories and records of the community's most prosperous times. The population of Ibukijima is less than 500 people now, so the number of ...