For centuries, Amanohashidate has been known
as one of the “Three Most Scenic Views of Japan.”
The uniqueness of the sand spit has inspired human beings
since ancient times, and is the subject of many mythical stories. On this special occasion, sound artist Marihiko Hara who works on the texture / the silence of the soundscape,
and lighting designer Shiho Nagamachi who creates
the lights arrangement in the environments,
will turn the Amanohashidate beach
into a dream-like atmosphere of sound and light.

Amanohashidate, one of Japan’s “three most scenic spots,”
features a project called “Between Reality and Fantasy,”
which uses light, moving image, and sound to create a fantastical experience. The artwork “Double Horizon” intends to describe
the original meaning of “Amanohashidate.”
In the Japanese language, both the sea and the sky are called “Ama."
Why are these two different elements expressed with the same sound?
Saito’s installation work suggests a space that
—derived from the origin of Amanohashidate—looks beyond the horizon.
The work will be exhibited at the approach to Motoise Kono Shrine,
a sacred place that inherently occupies a liminal margin between two worlds. Please feel free to experience this artwork, which makes use of looming fog and projections to give us the illusion of a three-dimensional sea surface, or flowing clouds.

The Amanohashidate area, one of the three most scenic spots in Japan,
will be created into a fantastic world of digital art using light,
images, and sound under the theme of "between reality and fantasy."
This year, we will exhibit "data-verse 1" by Ryoji Ikeda,
one of Japan's leading electronic music composers and visual artists.
The audio-visual work "data-verse 1" that draws viewers into the vast world of data expresses the process of moving from the micro level to the human level to the macro level in three ways. Viewers, both visual and auditory, are drawn into the vast world of data, into the stream of data that overflows our everyday lives. By combining various elements such as acoustics, vision, materials, physical phenomena, and mathematical concepts in an integrated manner, Ikeda, which transcends existing concepts, explores the limits of human senses and digital technology while exploring "extreme". , And the "infinite" world. Experience his work, which is open to the imagination of the viewer, without being restricted by his own words.

Amanohashidate, one of Japan’s “three most scenic spots,” will be transformed into a dreamlike atmosphere, with light, video projection, and sound-based digital art on the theme of “Between and Fantasy.” From November 20th (Friday) to 23th (Monday / National Holiday), between the front of Kyoto Prefectural Tango Regional Museum and the ruins of Tango Kokubunji Temple, Seiichi SAITO (creative director of Rhizomatiks Architectire), will unveil his latest artwork in the “JIKU” series.
A site-specific artwork series, “JIKU” explores the hidden axis within this place, using light and sound to illuminate the invisible. “Work #009” in the series takes place in Tango Kokubunji Temple. The work finds its primary inspiration in the eye and mind of famed painter Sesshū Tōyō—uncoveing this axis through Sesshū’s masterpiece “View of Ama-no-hashidate.”
Sesshū’s “View of Ama-no-hasidate” painting, is a national treasure, and for the first time in 40 years, it will come home to the Kyoto Prefectural Tango Regional Museum, located in the front of Tango Kokubunji Temple ruins. Since there is no actual place from which one can see the entire Amanohashidate area as it is painted in Sesshū’s work, it is presumed that he had visited multiple vantage points, and then connected what was in his mind to produce a single work. This work in the “JIKU” series uses light and sound, to try and express the viewpoints that were in Sesshū’s mind.