Washimi has exhibited new three-dimensional works and a video in the café space of Fab Café Tokyo. The works were created on the back of research on Enshu Dai-nenbutsu, an obon event which has been held in the Enshu region of Shizuoka Prefecture since the Edo period. Enshu Dai-nenbutsu folk performances often take place in the “niwasaki” (the area of garden near the veranda) of the private houses of people marking the first obon after the death of a family member. Although the niwasaki is a very private spot for the people who live there, it is also a special place where the outside and inside, the public and private, intersect. The exhibition gave a sense of the extreme importance of the role of the niwasaki in Enshu Dai-nenbutsu proceedings as an environment connecting this world and the next. Based on this, rather than hold the exhibition element of this project in the “white cube” of a gallery, Washimi decided to hold it in a café, a space that is comparatively connected to everyday life and similar to the niwasaki in terms of how the outside and inside, the public and private, intersect. For this exhibition Washimi created and installed one new video work and six new three-dimensional works in an attempt to explore anew the relationship between materials and forms in “transformation” – a theme Washimi has continued to explore – from the starting point of the keyword “niwasaki.”