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Mr. Kazutoshi Iiyama, a ceramic artist who reflects human instincts glimpsed from Jyomon earthenware and the landscape felt from the nature of Mt. Yatsugatake on his works. He has talked about the ancient romance he has been attracted to since childhood and his works for us.
The feel and sense of air I experienced in my childhood has formed my current senses.
The feel and sense of air I experienced when I was running about on the ground of Jyomon at the foot of Mt. Yatsugatake by barefoot in my childhood has formed my current senses. At the time you could pick up pieces of Jyomon earthenware in the fields here and there. Pieces of earthenware were collected as my important treasure in an empty box of snack with cotton spread in it.
Jyomon earthenware is a means to describe the beauty human beings have been originally equipped with.
When I am looking at elaborate Jyomon textiles and shapes of its potteries, I feel that time for lives of ancient people passed very slowly so that they had enough mental capacity to be able to create those figures, which induces me to think that Jyomon earthenware has been a means to describe the beauty human beings have been originally equipped with, which comes from their instincts.
The landscape and ancient romance I once felt to be described in 3D works.
I love to create decorative works, too. I figure that the landscape and ancient romance I once felt in the fields or forests to be described in 3D works faced with current myself is an act driven by the instinct within myself.
Ceramic art educes my instinct and makes it distinct.
The accidentality created through burning works made with clay in the oven is peculiar to ceramic art. I name it “playing with clay”, not ceramic art, sculpture or artwork. For me, ceramic art is very attractive in being able to describe the invisible in 3D works to make my instinct distinct.
Kazutoshi Iiyama / ceramic artist
Ceramic artist from Chino. Member of Japan fine arts exhibition, to which he exhibited his work in 1994 to receive an award. Received Contemporary arts and crafts award of Japan contemporary arts and crafts exhibition. Attracted by Jyomon earthenware picked up in childhood to “play with clay” to describe what he felt from the nature of Mt. Yatsugatake.
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Sohei Hara / Boulangerie Kerock
Beautiful water, locally produced and consumed
Making of bread possible only in this place
Want to take the most out of nature’s blessings -
Jyunichi Akatsuka / manager of nature park, Mt. Kirigamine nature protection center
Beautiful landscape of Mt. Kirigamine
Nature that people have created and protected
“Want to protect the nature with everyone’s ideas” -
Yoshikazu Tanaka / Dairy farming department, Nagato pasture
Attracted by the sea of cloud
Nature and location cannot be replaced by anything
“Living with family under the beautiful starry sky” -
Yukie Otake / curator in Obsidian experience museum
Attracted to obsidian
Miraculous power that connects people from Jyomon era (an ancient, primitive era in Japan)
“Want to appeal the peace of Jyomon era” -
Ken Watabe / the owner chef of B&B sora&sora Meshi
Delicious gibier of Tateshina
Eat fresh deer meat with your own hands
“Delicious deer meat of Tateshina at a reasonable price” -
Keiko Yamada / Chino Omotenashi (hospitality) team
The most hilarious festival in Japan / Mibashira (one concerning the historical pillar)
Women also want to participate
“ ‘Omotenashi’ with Kiyari (singing for labor or to cheer up hard work)” -
Yukio Kitazawa / chairman, Chino-shi agriculture & sightseeing promotion committee
Committed to organic farming without pesticides
Want to convey the importance of food
“To be led to children with bright eyes”