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(Event Cancelled) Line of Sight: Navigating the Transition from the forefront of Tsunami and Radioactivity with Atsunobu Katagiri and Yoshihiro Yabe, Director, Nishiaizu International Art Village [JP]

Date: 9/18 Time: 17:30-17:00

Venue: KYOTOGRAPHIE Infomation Lounge & Books Web upload with limited live audience
Language: JP
Limited live audience

Please join Atsunobu Katagiri and Yoshihiro Yabe to discuss the changes in Fukushima over the last decade, looking at Yabe’s revitalization activities Nishiaizu, along with the challenges still faced in the region.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.
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Atsunobu Katagiri
​​Born in Osaka in 1973. In 1997, Atsunobu Katagiri became head of the long-established Misasagi School of ikebana in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Katagiri’s style ranges from traditional ikebana to contemporary artistic approaches, and he collaborates with artists from many different fields. In September 2013, two and a half years after the Great East Japan earthquake and nuclear accident, mizu-aoi, a rare flowering plant in the water hyacinth family designated a near-threatened (NT) species by the Ministry of the Environment, repopulated in the wake of the tsunami. Katagiri was invited to try using mizu-aoi in ikebana, and traveled to the city of Minami Soma, in Fukushima. There, in a landscape scarred by the tsunami but with signs of lives that had once been lived there, he created ikebana flower arrangements using mizu-aoi and other flowers blooming in the stricken area that were published as a photo book, Sacrifice—The Ikebana for Regeneration, Offered to the Future (Seigensha 2015). Katagiri has done numerous solo exhibitions, and recently collaborated with Van Cleef & Arpels on LIGHT OF FLOWERS—Hana no hikari (Daikanyama T-SITE GARDEN GALLERY 2021).
Yoshihiro Yabe
Born 1978 in Nishi-Aizu Cho, Fukushima Prefecture. Landscape architect. Previously worked at RYOKO UEYAMA LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIO in Tokyo and NITA DESIGN GROUP in Shanghai. The 19th head of a 360-year-old community deep in the mountains, Yabe works to preserve the sustainable lifestyle based on his knowledge and experiences as a landscape architect. Recent projects include NIPPONIA Narayama Community, a decentralized, residency-style old housing hotel, and NextCommonsLab Nishi-Aizu. His running theme is “an old-new future” in searching and executing new ways to live, societal organization and structuring, and sustainability of the local economy.

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Information Lounge & Books (Sanjo Ryogaemachi Building)
73 Mikuracho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-8166
Kyoto City Subway “Karasuma Oike” exit 6. 3 min on foot.

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