AMABIKI 2006
April 1, - June 4, 2006
Organizer : Executive Committee of Amabiki Village and Sculpture
Place : District of Aoki, Takamori and Haneda, Sakuragawa city, IBARAKI

Greetings
About the exhibition of AMABIKI 2006
Comments from the artists
Documents of AMABIKI 2006
Guide map (PDF/812kb)

参加作家 43作家・1グループ　Artists : 43artists and 1group
写真：斎藤さだむ　Photographs : SAITO Sadamu

Event:
Opening ceremony:
15:00- Saturday, April 1,
Place: Community Center "Yamato-fureai-center CITRUS"

Opening party:
16:00- Saturday, April 1,
Sculpture tour by bus:
10:40-16:00 Sunday, April 9,
10:40-16:00 Sunday, May 21,

Related plan:

From AMABIKI "Exhibition of the planning for AMABIKI 2006"
Period: 11:00-18:30 Monday, April 24, - Saturday, April 28, 2006
Place: Gallery SEIHO
8-10-7 Ginza Chuo-ku Tokyo 104-0061. Tel. 03-3573-2468

Event by the volunteer:

Yamato Nade Shikoan:
(drink and snack service)
Each Sunday during period

Demonstration and sales of soba noodle of volunteer group "Teuchi-soba-daisuki-kai":
(Demonstration and serving of hand-made soba; buckwheat noodles)
Each Sunday during period; also Thursday, May 4,

Support:
Sakuragawa City, Sakuragawa City Board of Education, Ibaraki Prefecture Government, Ibaraki Prefectural Board of Education, The Ibaraki Shimbun Co.,Ltd., The Joyo Geibun Center and NHK Mito broadcasting Station

Cooperation:
A department of Stone in chamber of commerce and industry of Yamato, KIGUCHI Co.,Ltd., YAJIMA FORESTRY and Watanabe building stone trading company Ltd.

Landowner:
Sakuragawa city, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Aoki Shinto shrine, ASAGA Jin, ARAKI Sawa, IWABUCHI Susumu, KATSUTA Masanori, KOBAYASHI Kunio, SATO Yu, SEKIMURO Jyunkei, TAKAMATSU Katsuko, TAKAMATSU Cyoichiro, Takamori Shinto shrine, TANAKA Minoru, YANAKA Syogoro, TSUTSUMI Koumei, TSUBOI Seiichi, Haneda Shinto shrine, HIROSAWA Umeo, HIROSAWA Koichi, HIROSAWA Yoichi, FUKAYA Syoko, MATSUMOTO Naoe, MATSUMOTO Masamitsu, Yakuohji Temple, YAMAZAKI Shigeru and YAMAZAKI Fumio

Head of district:
In 2006: YANAKA Terukazu (Aoki district), TAKAMATSU Katsuaki (Takamori district), TSUBOI Kazuyoshi (Haneda district)
In 2005: FUKAYA Reijiro (Aoki district), AKASAKA Fumio (Takamori district), YOKOTA Hideji (Haneda district)

Subsidy:
: Japan Arts Fund
: Musashino Art University - Joint research Project (English translation of the text)
"Satoyama scenery and sculpture: Practical research into the formation and internationalization of new values in outdoor symbolic arts"
What is "Satoyama"

Volunteers who gave their assistance:
Yamato Nade Shikoan:
ICHIKI Toshiko, TANAKA Yukie, TSUKADA Tomoe, FUJITA Mitsui, MASUBUCHI Fumie, YUGE Kazuhiro, YUGE Momoyo and YUGE Yoshiko
Handmade Soba Appreciation Society:
HIROSAWA Shiro, KAKUTA Koichi, HIROSAWA Umeo, SUZUKI Yukio, TANAKA Hiroshi, ABETA Osamu, MASUBUCHI Sakae, YANAKA Hisashi, INO Jun, TAKAHASHI Kei, OGAWA Hiroshi, SUZUKI Sadao, OJIMA Mitsuo, SEKI Yoko, DAITA Mitsue, KATSUTA Yoshiko, OGAWA Yoshiko, KOMORI Masako, SUDO Taiko, MINAGAWA Chieko, CHIKATSU Masahiro, SUDO Minoru, OHKUBO Yuhei, YASUNO Moriya, OHWADA Yutaka, NAKAGAWA Genichi, FUKAYA Shoe, INO Hayashi, TAKAMATSU Shinpei, TSUKADA Chie, MIYAMOTO Tamiko, HIROSAWA Yoichi and OKAMURA Fujio
Sculpture Bus tour (driving etc.):
YUGE Kazuhiro and SUGIYAMA Fumio
Wildlife observation group leader:
(Explanation of flora, fauna, and insects living in Amabiki, the environment and topography)
ISHII Syozo (Ibaraki prefecture environmental advisor)
"Amabiki Village and Sculpture, and the natural environment"

Information center reception:
KARUBE Kumiko, TAKANO Misae and YAMAGATA Masaya

Catalogue of AMABIKI 2006
Published by : Executive Committee of Amabiki Village and Sculpture
c/o Commerce, industry and sightseeing section of Economic department
in Sakuragawa city office Makabe office building
911 Iizuka Makabe-machi Sakuragawa-shi IBARAKI 300-4495 JAPAN
Tel 0296-55-1111 Fax 0296-23-8200
as of August 2006
Edited by : Executive Committee of Amabiki Village and Sculpture
Designed by : TANAKA Sayoko
Printed by : ELITE Printing Co., Ltd.
Photographs by : SAITO Sadamu (p13:KANEKO Itsuo, p79:YAMAMOTO Tadasu, p87:MIYAZAWA Izumi, p89:TODA Yusuke, p100-101:volunteers of Exhibition's artist)
Date of Publication / September 2006
Copyright of this catalogue is retained by Executive Committee of Amabiki Village and Sculpture © 2006.
Copyright of the photographs contained in this catalogue are retained by the photographers who took them.
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We would like to express our deepest appreciation to newspapers and broadcasters, many people and organizations for its generous support as well as to all the other above-mentioned individuals, who helped make the AMABIKI 2006 the great success.