Month: July 2018

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

"BENTO Gento Exhibition – Eating / Collecting · Connecting Design" is held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum from Saturday, July 21, 2018 to October 8 (Monday, congratulation). We participated in the press coverage on July 20th, so we will report on its contents this time!

"The lazy boku" which we normally use is said. What kind of feeling do you always eat?
While talking with friends who always eat buddies together? Or do you imagine the person who made it?

From the parlor bento to the lunch for every day, "lazulth" is deeply rooted in our lives. The lunch boxes that someone made made are "gifts" handed down from people to people and have played an important role since ancient times as a social tool to deepen the connection between people and people.

"Person who makes a lazy birthday" stuffs lunch boxes with ingredients considering nutritional balance and overall color and placement. This is something you can not do without thinking about the person who really eats it. There is a story between the person who eats and the person who makes it. In other words, the laptop is also a communication tool for "eating".

This exhibition is an attempt to grasp "Japan's unique culture" "senpa" from the aspect of communication and design. At the venue, unique playful lunch boxes and contemporary artists' participatory works are exhibited, which makes it a space where you can experience the charm of a lumpy body throughout the body and gain a new viewpoint.

"Senpu" which can sing and dance? !

The exhibition starts with a fun new animation work produced by Hiraku Ogura of "Fermentation Designer" <Dinosaur>. Works that make it easy to sing with melancholy patterns of "Yuru" and lyrics, lyrics, choreography, sing and dance to naturally understand dozens of things.

"The feeling that can not be said is the hakushi taste. Let's stick around, as I thought"

<Literally DAYS> is impressive not only for the young characters, but also the scenery of the rich four seasons and the lyrics that seems simple and deeply understandable. Dance, sing. A new "festival experience" in which a movement using the body opens. Please join us at the venue!

Fun communication created by "BENTO"

At the underground gallery, a number of artists' works focused on communication produced by Kentaro are exhibited.

In response to a letter from the reader that "I want to make such a box lunch to everyone", Mr. Ayumi Oosu made a box lunch and delivers recipes and lunch to readers, "Ayumi cafeteria's lunch box" actually Displayed photographs taken by Hirano Taro on the boxed lunch produced. In addition, at the corner of the hall, there is also a corner where you decide the theme and your opponent with roulette and try to try Ayumi Shokudo.

The work "Hiruzu" by Mr. Saeki Abe copied the figure that various people eat silent lunch silently. "What kind of person made it?" "How do you feel?" Just watching the photos can inspire imagination.

Also introduces exhibits that you can think over about relationships between you and the surrounding world around yourself starting from lunch boxes.

Toru Oyamada 's work is "Oda bento" which the eldest daughter devised a lunch box and draws his daily work that Mr. Oyamada who is his father makes lunch boxes based on the picture. There are also lunch boxes for ideas that I can not think of making very much for adults, and I think it is fun to think that Mr. Oyamada might have faced this "unbeliever" with any feelings.

Mr. Yasuhiro Moriuchi holds a workshop where children will make documentary images of how junior high school students make lunch boxes themselves without borrowing from their parents. The project is displayed as an image work. If you open the lunch box on the table, there is also a unique production that the images of junior high school students who participated in the box flow.

Rediscover "Gensen". Participation experience type "Intangible bento"

Marije Vogelzang , an "eating designer" that designs to eat. Her exhibition expresses the aspect of "no touching or viewing" aspect of the lunch box as an animated story with "Intangible bento" exhibition, inviting us inside.

It is a space where visitors themselves can think carefully and rediscover their lunches through works that capture our familiarized vegetables from a different viewpoint than usual.

At the venue, you can listen to the voices of the spirits using "spirit phone". What they speak to is a laptop's "future possibility" such as invisible memories and stories with producers, bioplastic lunchboxes and insect foods.

Bento is not only a person who eats from the person who makes it but it may be a gift from you who lives in the future to you in the future.

FRAGMENTS PASSAGE – OSUSOWAKE Alley

OSUSOWAKE means giving someone a part of something you have.

The pleasure of eating someone with a buddy is "dishes exchange." There are many people like that. Mr. Jun Kitazawa paid attention to the element of this "OSUSOWAKE", and built "OSUSOWAKE Yokocho" to think about the feelings and culture in the museum.

In this street reminiscent of the landscape of the traditional market in Southeast Asia, there is a space where you can freely talk about what you brought. Bring something from the house or spread rugs in the plaza. At a corner of the venue, a workshop using 'OSUSOWAKE' gathered at the sideways was also held. There is no air like 'teach' anything to someone there. To the end this is also 'OSUSOWAKE', so everyone was tackled in an atmosphere that was very free and relaxing.

In addition to the luncheon box of a beautiful and unique shape used at the party in the Edo period at the venue, various lunch boxes of the world are introduced. Focusing on ingenuity and design for "eating" in our culture, think about communication between people and people that occurs through the act of "eating lunches".

Also, on August 20, "Kids Day" will be held on Monday of the closed holiday. We can enjoy relaxing with parents and children with enjoyable participation type program, as well as collaboration planning and workshop with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra during the exhibition.

Looking, listening, touching and having fun "BENTO Greetings Exhibition – Eating / Collecting / Connecting Design".
The hall is full of lovely "hospitality" and playfulness.
Why do not you feel the connection with your important person through everyone's favorite meals?

Summary

Exhibition name	"BENTO Greetings Exhibition – Eating / Collecting / Connecting Design"
Term	Saturday, July 21, 2018 – October 8 (Monday, congratulation) From 9: 30 to 17: 30 (entrance is until 30 minutes before closing) * Friday, July 27, Friday, August 3, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, until 21:00
Closed days	Monday, September 18 (Tue), 25 (Tue) * However, August 13 (Monday), September 17 (Monday · Holiday), 24 (Monday · Holiday), October 1 (Mon ), Opening on 8th (Monday · public holiday)
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery A · B · C
Admission fee	General 800 yen / college student / vocational school student 400 yen / over 65 years old 500 yen Group (more than 20 people) 600 yen / Visitors who are under high school students will be admitted free. ※Disabled persons (along with the one assistant) will be admitted for free upon presenting the Disabled Person’s Booklet or an equivalent form of government issued ID. ※ On October 1 (Monday), "anyone's day" free, anyone is free
Official site	https://www.tobikan.jp/en/exhibition/2018_obento.html

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National Museum of Nature and Science

A special exhibition INSECT is being held at the National Science Museum from Friday, July 13, 2018 to October 8 (Monday, congratulation). Since I participated in the media exhibition for media, I will tell you the state of the exhibition!

Speaking of summer, blue sky, straw hat, and insects collected!
So, the theme of this special exhibition of National Museum of Nature and Science ​​is INSECT.

This exhibition is the first large-scale special exhibition that the National Science Museum surprisingly holds on the theme INSECT. Its origin is said to be 480 million years ago and insects with a much longer history than us human beings have achieved remarkable diversification compared with other creatures while adapting to various environments. About 1,000,000 species of that species are currently named.

INSECT exhibition that introduces knowledge unique to the National Science Museum through specimens, CGs, experience-type exhibits, etc. about its structure, ability, ecology, it is good to go around seeing with family, it is exciting to say "cute" with a partner.

We will introduce the highlight ahead!

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Giant insect model of powerful force

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When entering the venue, it is a huge model with a total length of 2 meters that is outstanding. Stag beetle, Oomura saki, Japanese honey bee · · ·. It is a work of the entrance telling that supervisor "totally reproduced to the number of tactile clauses and leg length."
Although it is the body of an insect which is not particularly noticed usually, when you look at the model of a huge scale again, you will be surprised by its complexity, diversity and make you realize that wonder.

Tens of thousands of insects and "specimen corridor"

Also, it is a specimen of an insect which is very substantial at this exhibition. Insects who have been fascinated by many people with a variety of shapes and colors for a long time. Because there are so many specimens that can not be seen at the venue, everyone should surely be able to meet insects that "see for the first time".

Particularly, the fifth chapter is filled with masterpieces, where walls are filled with collections of various research institutes, researchers, and enthusiasts. These collections are the foundation of insect research, but the collection policy differs depending on researchers, some people have made huge collections of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

How did this happen? Beautiful insects, annoying insects

This exhibition introduces the diversity of insect ecology along keywords such as eating, living in and fighting, and you can see various ecology acquired by insects to survive. I am watching the unique forms of it and I am not interested and it stimulates curiosity as "How did it become like this?"

By all means, please try looking for your "favorite" insect!

Fear! "Room of G"

A corner of 'G' that is particularly distinctive in the venue. This insect has been given a codename "G" because there are too many people who dislike it, but originally it is close to the line of a mantis and it is not a thing that never hurts human beings.

That's why I thoroughly saw through the glass. I felt as if I was "cute" in the way I was eating food "munching muggets …" all the while. So why do we hate G so much? Again, it seems that our developed hygiene idea and "imprinting" since childhood are great. For those who can not be helped by hating G, this section is recommended!

Insect world of the masterpiece

In addition, there are 4-frame manga by Izumori · · like Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Izumori, 3D insect that can observe small insect by turning 360-degree image, corner showing "Horotype specimen" of only one point in the world at the venue There are lots of attractive exhibits everywhere.

Furthermore, there is also a corner where you can learn "correct insect extraction" at the venue, so it is perfect for your child's summer vacation homework.

Some people love insects, others do not.
Why not try experiencing "insect world" full of unknown and romance this summer?

Summary

Exhibition name	Special exhibition INSECT
Term	Friday, July 13, 2018 – October 8 (Monday, congratulation) 9 am – 5 pm (Admission is 30 minutes before each closing time) ※ Friday · Saturday until 8 PM, August 12 (Sun) ~ 16 (Thu), 19 (Sunday) until 6 PM ※ There is a possibility to change about the hall hours and closed days
Closing day	July 17 (Tue), September 3 (Monday), September 10 (Monday), September 18 (Monday), September 25 (Monday)
Venue	National Science Museum
Admission fee	General · University students 1,600 yen Elementary, junior high and high school students 600 yen ※ Friday · Saturday only pairs Night tickets are 2 people 1 pair of 2,000 yen (2 people at 5 p.m. after the time of simultaneous admission, regardless of gender, only on the day of the venue) ※ Free when you are not in school ※ Person who has disabled note book and one carer is free
Official site	http://www.kahaku.go.jp/english/exhibitions/ueno/special/2018/konchu/

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Shitamachi Museum at Taito Ward

Shitamachi Museum at Taito Ward located on the bank of Shinobazu Pond.

On October 1, 1980, it was opened to tell the culture of old good town being lost to future generations. About 90% of the exhibits in the hall are based on donation items from inside and outside of Taito Ward, which makes it possible to feel the lives of the people of Meiji, Taisho and Showa familiar with the Edo era from the daily items etc. actually used I will.

During the period from 3rd July(Tue) to 2nd September (Sun) in 2018, as the museum hold the event to tell us about the “Living in summer in a downtown” with a theme “Edo’s summer food, clothing and shelter + play “, We visited the museum.

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The moment you step in the hall, another world spreads out there.

In the permanent venue of the first floor, the streets of Tokyo and downtown Taisho era have been elaborately reproduced and caught by the illusion as if time slipped.

Especially with commitment The period setting before the Kanto Great Earthquake is because the earthquake severely damaged the scenery so far.

It was built with the desire to convey to the future generations the cityscape that can feel the taste of Edo before the earthquake.

The greatest feature of this museum is not only that it can actually go up to such a reproduction house, but also to be able to touch its furnishings. Please take it and feel the life at the time.

"Well end meeting" was a place of important communication for housewife of those days.

Meanwhile, a cheap sweet shop, which is a social gathering place for children.
Immediately behind you, the room is connected, but you can see the way you live while you run a store at home.

What surprised me is that people's settings of residents are also done.
As I can go up to the cabin and look into the chest drawer, I can see what kind of person is from clothing.

Exhibits will change according to the season at stores.
Shaked ice for the current time. It used to be flattening icy officials in the past.

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Then, the exhibition “Edo’s summer food, clothing and shelter + play ” held at the 2nd floor.

Tools related to everyday life such as clothing, food and living, and materials related to play to enjoy summer are displayed on the theme of “Summer Living in Downtown”.

Let's take a peek into the lives of the people living in the Taisho, Showa, and Heisei downtown from the Meiji era which keeps the remnant of Edo.

Especially eye-catching was the mosquito net hanging in the center of the exhibition hall.
It was generally used until about the end of the Showa 30 's. Since hemp and cotton used for weaving mosquito nets have the function of escaping the muffled heat, the interior is felt cool.

In the era when there was no air conditioner, people tried to incorporate coolness from the ears from the eyes. Wind chimes is a summer tradition that is also transmitted to the present age, but in addition to that, directing light bulbs from incandescent lamps to blue to produce coolness.

Also, “monouri” which was thriving in Edo is taken up. A monouri is a merchant who sells goods while carrying it. Products sold were essential items such as foods, clothing, miscellaneous goods, medicines, etc. The items sold by time and season changed.
The merchant shouting the good’s name on the street. And with this voice, the residents learned about the change of the season.

While the era will change from Edo to Meiji, the items to be treated will gradually change, but one of the ones that were handed over from Edo as it is “Jyosai-ya”. It was a merchant who sold medicines for a suffering from summer heat and the box he was carrying was called a “Jyosai-bako”.

Every time a Jyosai-ya waiks, metal fittings attached to the box make a sound like a clatter, so this sound is a signal that the merchant came. In addition, the Jyosai-ya without wearing a shade under the scorching sun, this meant that he appealed the efficacy of the medicine with his own body.

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"Life under wartime" permanently exhibited on the second floor. You can see the lives of the people of downtown at that time from postcards and circulation materials of the time. Those postcards handled by Mr. Junichi Nakahara known for girl painting.

It reproduced the room around the 1950s. You can go up to the room and enjoy the atmosphere.

The series which was used in the public bath in Taito Ward has been relocated as it is. You can enjoy the scenery from the series.

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Although the exhibited items are valuable materials that convey history, they can be touched in practice, so it was a valuable opportunity to feel the breath of the people of those days.

During the period, mosquito nets are suspended in the copper pot builder on the first floor, and there are also events that can actually enter, so please feel and experience the summer scenery that has been lost now.
※ This event will be held between Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays during the period and during the Ueno Summer Festival (July 14 – August 12) from around 4 pm

Summary

A session	July 3 (Tue) – September 2 (Sun) of 2018
location	Shitamachi Museum at Taito Ward (2-1 Ueno Park, Taito-ku)
Opening hours	9: 30 am – 5: 30 pm (Admission is until 5 o’clock)
closing day	Monday (Next weekday if Monday is a holiday)
Admission fee	General 300 yen (200 yen) Small, medium, high school students 100 yen (50 yen) * In parentheses, group fee of 20 people or more ※ Persons who have a handicapped Person with disability or medical care beneficiary certificate for medical treatment for the disabled and their carers are free (proof of necessity at entry) ※ Every Saturday, small and junior high school students living and staying in Taito-ku and their leaders are free
inquiry	03-3823-7451
URL	http://www.taitocity.net/zaidan/shitamachi/

Gallery Talk

There is a commentary on the highlight of this exhibition by the curator in charge.
Date and time Saturday, July 7th, Saturday 21st Saturday August 4th Saturday 11th Saturday 18th Saturday September 1 Saturday 2pm
From about 20 to 30 minutes
2nd floor planning exhibition hall
※ No reservation required. Everyone who entered can participate.
※ For details please visit the Shimomachi Museum official website http://www.taitocity.net/zaidan/shitamachi/ · facebook 【Shitamachi Museum】 · Twitter 【Shitamachi Museum】or confirm with the telephone.