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Wonderful Mirror of Japanese Soul, Shibuya

This work is based on the "Meikyo Yamato-damashii shinpan (Wonderful Mirror of Japanese Soul, Newly Published)" created by Japanese painter Kyosai Kawanabe in 1874. In the Meiji era (1868-1912), he presented his work as resistance to the rapid westernization of Japanese society. However, is it resistance or tolerance that is important in the contemporary world of numerous and ever-increasing divisions? Referring to Shibuya in Tokyo as a video game stage, this work, in which Halloween in the West and Hyakki Yagyo (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) in the East, and the real and the virtual coexist, revels in the various differences in the world and enshrines the soul.

In Japanese folk belief, long-aged materials are believed to have a soul. These are called Tsukumo (ninety-ninth or #ffffff), and their nightly parade is called Hyakki Yagyo. This digital data will also have a soul after long ages.

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