Tsuda Nao Jomon Project

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Tsuda Nao Jomon Project Executive Committee

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2015 Phase I Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Single Year Grant Program)

Photo by Sunao Tsuda

Photo by Sunao Tsuda

Photo by Sunao Tsuda

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Business Overview

One of the fundamental cultures of Japan is the Jomon period, when small rural communities were built for about 10,000 years, and people lived mainly by hunting, fishing and gathering. I later learned that even during the Great East Japan Earthquake, many of the Jomon remains survived the tsunami. It is for this reason that I would like to shed light on the Jomon culture that lies beneath our feet, and explore how the people of the Jomon period were able to coexist with the natural world and maintain a high sense of spirituality. This project, led by photographer Nao Tsuda, will focus on the expressive power and beauty of the Jomon period seen in unseen primitive landscapes and relics of Japan through field work in various regions, mainly in Tohoku and northern Kanto. As for the presentation, I would like to explore an exhibition method in which people can feel the beauty of the Jomon period, which can be said to be the origin of Japanese culture, through photographs, and use it to regenerate "Japanese thinking" that has been the basis of Japanese culture since ancient times, and to think about the way of life in Japan in the future.

implementation period

Monday, Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 30th (scheduled) Saturday, February 20, 2016 - Saturday, March 26

Place of implementation

Kurachi Yoshida Omotesando (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film (Minato-ku, Tokyo)

Profile

Tsuda Nao
Born in Kobe in 1976. A photographer who travels the world and continues to translate, through the viewfinder, the relationship between people and nature that has been continuing since ancient times. Since 2001, he has been active in many exhibitions both in Japan and overseas. In 2010, he received the Fine Arts Award for New Artists.
His main collections of works include "Ko" (Shusuishobo), "Smoke Line" and "Storm Last Night" (both published by Akakasha). In recent years, photo collections made from fieldwork "SAMELAND" and "NAGA" have been published successively from limArt.