Every time I visit the Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, I cannot help thinking of the song ‘Kuchibue’ (meaning ‘whistle’ in Japanese) in my head. The lyric says: though tangible things lo
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Because of its topology, Kagawa prefecture has never been bound with abundant rainfall, and the rivers in the area run short with a rapid flow. Therefore, locals built lots of reservoirs to irrigate t
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During the Edo period, the most famous products of Kagawa prefecture the “Sanuki-san-paku讃岐三白”, “the three white of Sanuki”, were sugar, salt, and cotton. The sugar produced in Kagawa is called Wasanb
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Goshoji, the 78th temple of Shikoku Pilgrimage, is located in the south of Utazucho in Kagawa prefecture, on a higher terrain at the foot of Aonoyama mountain looking like a lighthouse illuminating th
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Kagawa, the smallest prefecture in Japan, was once called Sanuki province, and its smallest local government was Utazu located in the middle of Sanuki. However, Utazu was the political center of Sanuk
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In 1952, Mister YANAGI Soetsu (also called YANAGI Muneyoshi) the father of the Mingei movement, established the concept of folkcraft which means the hand-crafted art of ordinary people, and also the b
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Castles, as an important part of human history, were not only military buildings but also the centers of economy and politics. In Japan, tenshu (天守) is the most important and symbolic architecture of
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