AMABIKI 2022

Nest 2022
Logs, Blocks, Steel Pipes
500×500×450(h)cm

AMABIKI 2019

Nest at Mt. Haneta

Logs, Ceramic Blocks, Steel Pipes
800×600×800(h)cm

AMABIKI 2015

Kodama-Kodama

Twigs

φ30cm×8(pieces),φ75cm×1(pieces)

AMABIKI 2013

Dragon Pagoda AMABIKI 2013

Log, Ceramic block, Steel pipe

2,000×1,000×1,600 (h)cm

Taking a serene stroll around the Amabiki village gives me a sense of spirit and being in a blessed place.
I feel the Amabiki spirits here at the location of the 2013 exhibition, and this place will always hold a special place in my heart.
It is my hope that you will view this place and my sculpture as one.

AMABIKI 2011 In the midst of winter

Dragon Pagoda 2011

Log, Ceramic block, Steel pipe

800×800×1,200 (h)cm

Dusk comes early in North Kanto in the winter.
How many days did I spend alone, gazing at the low, red sun?
I was brought up at 30 below, so the Amabiki winter is mild and friendly to me.
I wanted to build a dragon god here in the clear sky to watch over the fields.

AMABIKI 2008

Flowers

Log, Brick, Steel pipe

800×800×200 (h)cm x2 pieces

By visiting Amabiki many times, one can understand those things that change and those that do not.
There are unchanging things amid those that are transient, and those that do not move on eventually disappear.
I want to gaze quietly upon the things that do not change, and be taken in by transient existence.
Nothing will remain, and nothing can remain.
After a long enough time of circulation and repetition, there is no one thing that I am satisfied with.

AMABIKI 2006

Dragon Pagoda 2006

Logs, Ceramic blocks, Steel pipes

800×1000×1600 (h)cm

Seen from the south-facing slope of Mt. Haneda, the beautiful, red sun is a striking sight as it sets to the west, beyond the fields and the rice paddies of Kanto Plain that stretches all the way to Mt. Fuji.
In this rice-growing area at the edge of the mountains where the plains start, I wanted to build a tower for the dragon god as an effigy to protect the rain.
My sculpture always embodies the wish to be touched by a great, invisible something.

THE 5TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

Pagoda

Log, Brick, Steel pipe

400×400×1200 cm
3000 kg

I always start my work by getting a read on the atmosphere of the place.
I'd like to put something up in one corner of a copse with Mt. Tsukuba in the background in the misty distance to draw the spirit of heaven to earth.
My sculpture could be an object drawing the spirit of heaven near, like the weather of Amabiki (literally "Rain-Drawing) Village.
I want to make a tower-shaped sculpture with the image of gathering rain.
My hope is to have some big thing here, something that can be sensed by not seen.

THE 4TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

Nymphaea

Log, Brick, Rubber tube

1100×1100×250 cm
2000 kg

Walking around the rice-growing area of Amabiki Village, one becomes aware that water is a gift that spins into life.
The moment I saw the reservoir pool with Mt. Tsukuba behind it, I wanted to float my work there, like a flowering lotus.
I wanted to create a work that, like a lotus, would represent the invisible cosmos between this world and the world beyond, the resting place.
I wanted to see it with my own eyes and make it part of the scenery of Amabiki.

THE 3RD EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

Altar of Rain

Bricks, Logs

600×600×800 cm
750 kg

I was amazed by the number of holding ponds around Amabiki Village.
In rice-growing regions, water itself is a gift that leads to life.
I felt the hardship of the way modern culture is heading, denying the direct link between nature and life.
I wanted to create an abode for the gods in order to call for rain.