Exploring Toba Nakamichi

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Visited the lovely seaside town of Toba Mie Prefecture, this week. Toba is well worth the visit. Gorgeous in that it has been able to keep a lot of it’s old character in the beautiful wooden buildings, temples, shrines, and continue to be friendly and outgoing to visitors.

Soaked in a bit of quiet, rural Japan and attended the Toba Stories Art Project.  Stayed at the KAMOMEnb guesthouse near the train station.

A photo journey of my visit through Toba and the bonus of enjoying an exhibition by the students from Joshibi University. Their task; to speak with the people of Toba and create artwork from these conversations.

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Accountant Tanuki
HabuShyuu Tanuki

 

At Sainenji Temple, Artist Sarah Brasier spotted these two little cats in an antique hanging scroll which she chose to recreate in a single painting. Their very oddness, as if the original painter had never seen cats irl.
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Pinhole Camera Photography by Furuichi Kako
Furuichi Kako’s Pinhole Camera Photography in the gorgeous Kadoya Bldg

 

Glass work by Ootake Mika in Kadoya Bldg
Ootake Mika: In Toba-shi “…I feel there is a shared space rather than a flow of time.”
Kubo Miki – Oil on Canvas
Omori Miho: Spinning Lite
Kadoya Bldg – Previously a drugstore, it was the town’s bustling gathering point as remembered by a senior town member.
I find the best things in the most out of the way places! Yummy, lemon, basil seed drink from Thailand…at the Circle K :)

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