Naoko Tosa

 

Project Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University

More about the Artist: Naoko Tosa’s Homepage

 

 

 

Sanctuary – Series

At this exhibition Naoko Tosa is exhibiting her artworks titled “Japanese Sanctuary” that expresses silence and at the same time dynamism based on Japanese“Zen” and “Shinto.”

 
 
雨滴声 – Raindrops voice
Naoko Tosa’s exhibition at Kennin-ji Temple
 
ZEN:Nothingness is everything
Credits: Toyoda & Co.,Ltd
 
能 – Noh
 
竜の夢 – Dream of Dragon
Direction and Video: Naoko Tosa
Noh: Soichiro Hayashi, Noh player at Kanze school
Flower Arrangement: Ryuho Sasaoka, Head of Misho-ryu Sasaoka school
Flower Designer: Dan Takeda
Cooperation: Tosa Laboratory, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability
 
Concept:
“Noh play of Izutsu featuring Ariwara Narihira as a dragon. 
The Experiment in creation of a new world of Yugen (subtle and profound) 
(subtle and profound)”
 
Sound of IKEBANA: Four Seasons – Series

“Sound of Ikebana” is a collection of new type of video artworks which are created by shooting Ikebana-like shaping, generated by giving sound vibration to liquid such as pastel color, oil, etc., by a high-speed camera.

This new type of ikebana (flower arranging) is created by capturing beauty of a physical phenomenon by shooting it with a high-speed camera of 2000 frames/second. The beauty is in one sense created by the collaboration between the physical phenomenon and an artist’s sensitivity and gives us an unforgettable strong impression. By utilizing various types of liquid the artist tried to express various kinds of color variations such as prayerful color in Buddhism, Japanese “Wabi-sabi” color, delicious color of food, cute color of Cool Japan, Peranakan color in Singapore, Indian color, Chinese color, etc. By using these color coordination, the artworks are intended to express Japanese seasons such as palm and cherry in spring, cool water and morning glory in summer, red leaves in autumn, snow and camellia in winter, Christmas season and New Year season. Adequate Haiku, Japanese short poems, are selected and are accompanied to each captured video.

 
Spring
“The spring night With cherry blossoms filled Has ended”
 
Summer
“Iris flowers To me comes a haiku An inspiration”
 
Autumn
“Autumn wind Blew out Second blooms left”
 
Winter
“The first ice What was spilled Between the stones”
 
 
Sanctuary – Series

At this exhibition Naoko Tosa is exhibiting her artworks titled “Japanese Sanctuary” that expresses silence and at the same time dynamism based on Japanese“Zen” and “Shinto.”

 
 
Silence
 
 
雲の上の山水 – Sansui on the Sky
 
 
雲の上の山水 – Sansui on the Sky