Creative Projects

Special support: Tōdaiji Temple
Purpose: Photo art exhibition of National Treasure of Japan for preservation of important cultural heritage and welfare for the elderly. After the exhibition, 6 scrolls printed in wash paper have been donated to the Tōdaiji Temple
Photo equipment support: Canon Marketing Japan Co., Ltd., Iino Media Pro Co., Ltd.

Special support: Tōdaiji Temple
Purpose: Photo art exhibition of Important Cultural Property of Japan (not to be shown publicly) for preservation of important cultural heritage and welfare for the elderly. After the exhibition, 6 scrolls printed in wash paper have been donated to the Tōdaiji Temple
Photo equipment support: Canon Marketing Japan Co., Ltd., Iino Media Pro Co., Ltd.

Special support: Japan Camera Museum
Purpose: Photo project shooting elderly people and workers in nursing homes in disaster area of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Sendai) in 2014, using the large format view camera (8×10). Everlasting platinum/palladium prints of  these photographs have been donated to the respective home as a mementos of the 3 years anniversary of the disaster.

• Seated bronze statue of Vairocana Buddha (Birushana or Rushana in Japanese), constructed in 8th century, Nara Period; restored in Kamakura and Edo Periods
• Images of the World of the Lotus Sanctuary (Padma-garbha-loka-dhatu), 8th century, Nara Period (engraved on the lotus blossom petals of the Great Buddha)
• Standing statue of Fukū Kensaku Kannon  (Amogha-pasa Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva), hollow dry lacquer, gold leaf over lacquer, 8th century, Nara Period, Hokke-dō  Hall
• Standing statues of Nikkō Bosatsu (Surya-prabha Bodhisattva) and  Gakkō Bosatsu (Chandra-prabha Bodhisattva), colored clay, cut-gold foil on clay, 8th century, Nara Period, Tōdaiji Museum
• Inner Sanktum of the Nigatsu-dō Hall (Raidō), 17th Century, Edo Period

• Wooden standing statue of Senju Kannon (Sahasrabhuja-arya-avalokitesvara) and standing statues of the Four Guardian Kings (Caturmahārāja) in the Zushi (a cupboard-like case with double doors), 　Senju-do Hall of the Kaidan-in, 13th century, Kamakura Period
• Wooden standing statue of Senju Kannon (Sahasrabhuja-arya-avalokitesvara) , 9-10th century, Heian Period
• Wooden standing statue of the Eleven-faced Kannon (Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara; Ekādaśamukha) , Shigatsu-dō Hall, Heian Period
• Curved Wooden Gigaku masks (Chidō, Konron, Suiko-ō , Suiko-ju, Baramon/Suiko-jū, Karura, Rikishi, Taikofu). 8th century, Nara Period

• Curved Wooden Bugaku masks (Chikyū Sanjiu, Korobase, Nasori, Kitoku -Koiguchi, Shintoriso)

• Curved Wooden Bugaku masks (Kitoku-Jinmen, Genjōraku, Ryō-ō, Batō, Ninomai, Kotokuraku, Somakusha)
• Bugaku Costume (Ranryō-ō, Kitoku, Dakyū-raku, Koma-boko, Ban’e-shōzoku, Kochō, Azuma-asobi)
• Curved Wooden Gigaku masks (used for Kōfukuji Busshō-e)
• Kasuga Mandala
• Kasuga Deer Mandala (Kasuga Shika Mandara)

etc.

Tōdaiji Temple, Kōfukuji Temple, Tōshōdaiji Temple, Yakushiji Temple, Gangōji Temple, Kasuga-taisha Shrine, etc.

🔸Nōgaku Theatre

Mannojō Nomura V (Kyōgen performer, Izumi School of Kyōgen)

Hodaka Komparu (Shite-kata Noh performer, Komparu School of Noh)

Yukifusa Takeda, Tomoyuki Takeda, Fumiyuki Takeda (Shite-kata Noh performers, Kanze School of Noh)

etc.

🔸Gagaku (Bugaku)  Theatre

Nanto-gakuso Gagaku Troupe (Nara)

Shitenoji-gakuso Gagaku  Truope (Osaka)