Interactive Comedy
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work that realized a computer capable of making tsukkomi-style responses to humans based on the rhythm of manzai comedy and the unconscious information embedded in conversation. A turning point in which Japanese culture became an explicit theme.
ZENetic Computer
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work that reconstructs sansui landscape and Zen as an interactive system. An important turning point in reconfiguring Japanese culture through technology.
Hitch-Haiku
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work that computationally models the relationships among haiku form, cutting words, and seasonal words, and supports haiku generation through dialogue.
Hitch-Haiku
MU: Nothingness
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A sculptural work centered on the Zen concept of “mu,” realized through collaboration between sculpture and calligraphy.
Sansui Silhouette Summer & Fall
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
Inspired by Sesshū’s seasonal sansui paintings, this work reconfigures the sansui format in a contemporary way using glass, light, and washi paper.
Sansui Silhouette Summer & Fall
Pure Water
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
An installation that visualizes the Shinto concept of purity through an offering stand, washi paper, and the character “mu.”
Pure Water
Trunk of Culture : Torso series
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work that gives form to a bodily image combining East and West, art and technology, and the animate and inanimate.
Trunk of Culture : Torso series
Silence (Japanese Sanctuary)
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work that reconstructs Japanese spirituality rooted in Zen and Shinto at the intersection of digital expression and temple space.
Silence (Japanese Sanctuary)
Space Flower Series
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A series that reconstructs the formal language of Japanese painting through the scattering and bursting moments of flowers, as an homage to Rimpa.
Space Flower Series
Utsuroi
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work in which ikebana is frozen with liquid nitrogen and its shattering process is filmed in high speed, visualizing the beauty of decay and transience.
Utsuroi
Renjishi
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work translating the physicality and symbolism of the Kabuki piece Renjishi into contemporary expression.
Renjishi
The Tale of the Heike: “Gion Shoja”
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work translating the sense of impermanence in the opening of The Tale of the Heike into contemporary visual and auditory expression.
The Tale of the Heike: “Gion Shoja”
Light Ikebana
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work that transforms the morphology of Sound of Ikebana into three-dimensional form through molten glass and light.
Light Ikebana
Miroku and Shōmon
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A work composed of glass, wood, and tatami, centered on cosmic nostalgia for Miroku Bosatsu and the shōmon awaiting raigō.
Miroku and Shōmon
Ikebana Lamp Collection
Cross-Disciplinary Practice
A series expanding the morphological language of Sound of Ikebana into lighting and glass works.
Ikebana Lamp Collection
Art Innovation Framework (Reference)
Cross-Disciplinary Practice / Methodology
A methodology that applies the artist’s way of thinking to corporate training and business development. Not a work itself, but important as a form of social implementation.
Art Innovation Framework