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Kusakabe Folk Crafts Museum Special Exhibition 2024
Yoichi Ochiai: “Animistic Randomness from the Divine Null, Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe: Triangle, Mandala, Circle”
Detail
Venue: Kusakabe Folk Crafts Museum 1-52 Oshinmachi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture
Period: Saturday, September 14th, 2024 - Monday, November 4th, 2024 (Holiday) 10am - 4pm
Closed days: Open every day during the exhibition period
Admission fee: General 1,500 yen, High school and university students 800 yen, Elementary and junior high school students 500 yen (free for preschoolers) Group discount for 30 people or more: General 1,300 yen, high school and university students 600 yen, elementary and junior high school students 400 yen Please note that Takayama residents can enter at the group rate.
Organized by Kusakabe Folk Crafts Museum, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Sponsored by Japan Cultural Expo 2.0 (subsidized type) (Independent Administrative Institution Japan Arts Council/Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Grant: Takayama City Cultural and Artistic Activities Support Project (This project is implemented with support from Takayama City (Takayama City Cultural and Artistic Activities Support Project Subsidy)
39th National Cultural Festival 24th National Art and Cultural Festival for Persons with Disabilities "Seiryu-no-Kuni, Gifu" Cultural Festival 2024 Official Event
Cooperation: Karimoku Furniture Inc., Kenji Sakamoto, Sunahara Stone Materials Co., Ltd., Kurumayama Shrine Chief Priest Nobuyuki Miyazawa
Planning cooperation: Keiichi Asakura, CHAIRMAKER TAKAYAMA JAPAN, etc.
[Exhibition related program]
・Opening act
Date and time: Friday, September 13th from 6:00 p.m. Live collaboration with composer and synthesizer player Keiji Urata 4,000 yen (includes one drink)
Keishi Urata
Born in 1953. A pioneer and representative artist of Japanese synthesizer players. Since starting his music career, he has performed with many musicians and artists who are leading the Japanese music world, including Yosui Inoue and Yumin, and has also been in charge of the music for the full-length animated film ``AKIRA.'' Currently, he has moved to Takayama and is trying out new musical activities regardless of field, based on performance activities that make full use of bronze gongs and sound sources.
In Takayama, the Doll Festival is celebrated on April 3rd -- a month behind other regions.
Many of the Hina dolls conserved by the Kusakabes were brought in for generations as trousseaux of those who married into the heads of family, and some of the boxes for the dolls have inscriptions of the names of the historical brides. Enjoy fully the magnificent collection of Hina dolls, handed down generations.
Venue：Hie Jinja Shrine, Takayama City
A procession of people pulls floats called “Moving Yomei-mon Gates.”
Torige-uchi (Kankako), the lion dance, and shrine parishioners in kamishimo outfits with flat kasa hats join the procession of mikoshi (portable shrines). This has been designated an intangible folk cultural property by the national and prefectural governments.
Venue：Dry riverbed area of the Miyagawa River, Takayama City
Approximately 2,000 fireworks dynamically decorate the night sky of Takayama.
Venue：Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine, Takayama City
One of Japan’s three most beautiful festivals, with a procession of 11 floats passing throughout the city. This has been designated an intangible folk cultural property by the national and prefectural governments.
