The long-running era of material abundance, mass consumption, and economic priority has left the Earth completely polluted.
It is we, humans, who have destroyed the natural environment of our blue Earth.
People are finally starting to realize this.

Ippodo inherits the idea of preserving the finest Japanese culture and the Japanese spirit of "Mottainai."

For this project, Maetake Yasue's off-gear pieces are gentle sculptures made from discarded materials such as iron, paper, and fiber.
He is a popular artist in America and Europe who expresses the Japanese aesthetic sense of "wabi-sabi," the beauty that decays over time, through iron rust and copper verdigris.

Takahi Hitoshi traveled to England and studied English gardens, and began creating sculptures using small hawthorn branches that were used for garden fences and then pruned and discarded, tied together with hemp string.
He is active in Europe as a craftsman close to Japanese bamboo crafts, and in 2020 he won the Loewe Craft Prize.


Exhibiting Artists
Takadoi Kazuhito| Maetake Yasue