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rinn to hitsuji
Light of Life
The source of everything for me
Like the source of light itself
If you light a candle, it may become like a wing,
Perhaps like a prayer, all may become light
I can’t say what is visible and what is not visible
I just know that all sources are light
rinn to hitsuji
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We are pleased to present “Light of Life”, the first exhibition of rinn to hitsuji at Center for COSMIC WONDER. rinn to hitsuji was founded in 2007. The candles are made with soy wax, palm wax, rapeseed wax and beeswax, all 100% natural. All essences used are natural oils and carefully worked by hand. The candles are formed by the heart, like a friend who gently snuggles beside you. Their light is the light of love. rinn to hitsuji creates a light that shines like the beautiful and unwavering heart of a candle.
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Exhibition period:
December 12 – December 22 , 2019
The artist will be present on December 12.
Opening Live:
Luca
Thursday, December 12 / 6:00pm
Fee: 3,000 JPY
Number of seats: 30
*All the seats are booked.
LUCA
Born in Berkeley, California, Luca is a singer-songwriter who released her debut album “So, I began” in 2015. Her work includes vocal performances on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 8th solo album “async”, as well as some recent collaborations with haruka nakamura. In September 2019, she released the album “Light Waves” in collaboration with the Kyoto-based singer-songwriter There is a fox. She currently lives in Tokyo, having lived before in California, Denmark and Paris.
Location:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
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Shigeo Tanaka
Form of Love
Because I like antiques and especially pottery, I started making it myself.
At first it was fun to work on the wheel but recently I have made many things with hand gestures and string which allows me to express myself even more. I have come to meet a variety of interesting people in recent years and one of them gave me a particular suggestion: “Why not close your eyes when you work?” When I try it, something unexpected is sure to happen. With your eyes closed, you get a deeper sense of handling the soil, so you can focus on the dialogue with the soil. Another person said to me, “Your kiln has a will. Fire has a will. You are loved by the kiln”. This made me very happy and I wanted to converse with the kiln. These works are part of my dialogue with the earth and with the kiln.
Shigeo Tanaka
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We are pleased to present the 3rd exhibition; Shigeo Tanaka “Form of Love” at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
Tanaka lives an old house of 280 years old in Asuka village, Nara Prefecture, his works making from a Hole type kiln “Rikei gama” and “Touen-shiki Takigama”.
We will present a work that reveals the truth and beauty, born in an intimate dialogue with soil and kiln, connects the past and the present.
Exhibition period:
November 9 – November 17 , 2019
The artist will be attending on November 9
Opening Talk:
“Form of Love”
Shigeo Tanaka, Primi-Chibu, AAWAA
Date: Saturday, November 9 / 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Fee: Donation
Number of seats: 30
*All the seats are booked.
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: November 8
Miyakono Yasuda
ancient sound
The natural world plays a natural music of overtones that settles our breathing and steadies our nerves.
On this spherical, spinning Earth, silent vibrations constantly stir our blood and bones and revitalize our cells.
I thought that something similar was happening in earthenware pots.
Something was being transmitted by earthenware for years and years.
I tried to measure their frequencies.
Large open-mouthed pots have a low frequency, while narrow-mouthed vases have a higher frequency due to their faster resonance.
It depends as well on the thickness, form, and quality of the clay.
The same is true for a tuning fork.
A low frequency produces a dull reverberation and a high frequency rings with a clear sound.
I think it’s the difference between use value and taste.
Leave water in an earthenware pot overnight and its resonance will send ripples through the water.
If I play a small harp above an earthenware pot, it becomes an amplifier.
If I bury a clay pot in the soil it will absorb the sound from above the ground, which is why it has found a modern use as soundproofing.
I choose stone as a conduit to receive the frequencies emanating from the soil.
When I shape an earthenware pot on a stone, I can hear the same sound that the ancients heard.
I think this is a good way to feel their rich and sublime spirituality.
Miyakono Yasuda
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We are pleased to present the fiest solo exhibition; Miyakono Yasuda “ancient sound”.
Miyakono Yasuda mixed the cray and soil around the Jomon ruins with plants from unique perspective.
The soil is formed by hand-twisting, and the work is fired by noyaki process.
Yasuda is trying to make the sound of ancient people appear through her works.
It feels as an act of connecting sprit and thought in harmony with nature (God) to the present.
Exhibition period:
October 13 – October 20, 2019
*The artist will be attending on October 13
*Closed: October 11 – 12
*Temporary changed open time / 1pm – 7pm , October 13.
Opening Ceremony:
Saturday, October 13 / 4pm
Miyakono Yasuda
Born in 1972.
Started activities based on plants, minerals, and soil from 2012.
Create works by connecting ancient pottery formation, studies fired by Noyaki (open firing) with unique senses.
Yasuda has been involved in the activities and art production of Cosmic Wonder since its establishment.
COSMIC WONDER
Harmonic Meditation
The season when the water jug echoes the heavens
Beautiful dimensions ascend from the earth
Like myself and my true self
The sky and soil touch with light
Smiling angels and spirits rejoicing
Flickering all around like radiant stars
To bring all of life into harmony
Warmth rises up
Remembrances emerge from the past
New things made visible by the cosmos
According to the play of light
Take pleasure in the sight of art and clothing
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We are pleased to present the exhibition; COSMIC WONDER “Harmonic Meditation”.
The exhibition will feature new clothes of collection, include arts and crafts, available for purchase,
produced under the theme”Harmonic Meditation”, by artists curated by Yukinori Maeda, Cosmic Wonder.
Garments by
COSMIC WONDER
Arts and crafts by
Hiroki Tashiro (Sculpture)
Yasuhide Ono (Accessory)
Miyakono Yasuda (Earthware)
Masaru Kawai (Woodwork)
Kaoru Yokoo (Repair clothes)
CATHERINE EMIW (Old instruments)
rinn to hitsuji (Candle)
We will be given to the purchaser Harmonic Meditation’s bag made from Indian hand-woven cotton Khadi.
(It will end as soon as it is gone.)
Exhibition period:
September 14 – October 10, 2019
Openning tea:
Saturday, September 14 / 3pm – 5pm
Masaru Kawai
by trees
Furniture, flooring, dishes, or pencils that we usually see.
The trees used for them were originally grown in the mountains. Someone cut it, someone sawed it, and someone made it.
But do you fell there? What kind of mountain did you live on?
The Japanese view of nature changed dramatically after the 1964 Olympics. A line was drawn between people and nature.
And again, the Olympics are coming. I am scared.
I want to be by nature a little more if I can do it.
Masaru Kawai
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We are pleased to present the 3rd solo exhibition; Masaru Kawai “by trees”.
We live in the natural and live in symbiosis, in recent years we have done all things with the concept separated from nature.
And We feel the limit to that, and many movements to restore each view of nature take place among the artists active in the same period.
Kawai puts the concept of mountains, trees, and nature into a strong concept, and produces beautiful works that include mythical features such as offerings to the natural world.
In this exhibition, Kawai will present works that evoke the awakening of nature and universal beauty that all of us possess.
And also the works of the Japanese coniferous forest project SOMA.
On the opening day, We will have a breakfast party “The beauty of nature / Memories of life” with Kawai, Dr.Toshiro Inaba, and Shiori Goto.
We talked about the source of the beauty after eating Shiori goto’s breakfast.
Exhibition period:
August 3 – August 11, 2019
*The artist will be attending on August 3
Opening Event:
Breakfast party “The beauty of nature / Memories of life”
Masaru Kawai, Toshiro Inaba, Shiori Goto
Date:
Saturday, August 3 / 9:00am – 11:00am
Reservation required / Number of seats: 15
4,500 JPY (All the seats are booked.)
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: July 23 – August 2
Masaru Kawai
Born in 1979, Gifu Prefecture farmers
2007～ Start as woodworker
2016 Start from “SOMA” product treating a Japanese conifer
Planning a workshop and fieldwork of connect forest and person.
Toshiro Inaba
Doctor, Assistant Professor of Cardiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital. Doctor of Medicine.
Born in 1979, Kumamoto prefecture
Representative books “Awaken of anima” Published by anonima studio.
Shiori Goto
After Bhutan restaurant and Vegetable restaurant, became independent in 2012.
Based in Setagaya, Tokyo, as catered food and catering chef.
Takashi Ichikawa
Playing Wara with Chaguruma, Tea tools and Plants
Tea is a tree.
The tea planting of 1000 years of age, the origin of tea production in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan , was a tea plant that looked up.
The tea planting of Sichuan tea leaves in Chaozhou was a tea plantation.
Both the small round tea of Taiwan tea and the thin long tea of Chinese tea return to the shape of leaves at the time of tea.
The tea was a leaf.
When tasting tea, the aroma, taste, bitterness, astringency, and afterglow spread in the mouth.
The more you know about things related to tea serving manner, manners, tools, wabi, sabi, yin and yang, and tea, pretty deep.
Tea is a very interesting field with many elements to explore.
I want you to enjoy such tea lightly and to feel the taste of tea. How are you going? I have a good tea.
I served tea by “Chaguruma” which creates a place for tea outdoors regardless of the location.
I made “Chaguruma No.9”at last year. Also “Chaguruma No.10” at this year…
When I reconsider the tea as “Happening of Water, Leaf, Yang (fire) and Human”, I feel the margin of imagination. It seems like something can be done.
Is there anything to replace “Leaf”of “Happening of Water, Leaf, Yang (fire)and Human”with flowers, seeds, steams and roots?
What would happen if it were other plants than tea leaves? Feel various, try and return to tea, maybe…
In this exhibition, I’m pleased to present the pottery for roasting, toasting, baking, crushing, steaming, kneading etc…with a focus on Chaguruma and tea tools.
Takashi Ichikawa
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We are pleased to present “Playing Wara with Chaguruma, tea tools and plants”, by Takashi Ichikawa, sell the new Chaguruma and tea tools.
On the first and second day of the exhibition, We will hold a tea ceremony “Happening of Water, Leaf, Yang(fire)and Human” by Ichikawa, Cooking artist of Nao Uekusa and Sound artist of MAMIUMU.
*Chaguruma: Mobile storing table for exclusive use of the tea.
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Exhibition period:
June 29 – July 7, 2019
*The artist will be attending on June 29 and 30.
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: June 19, June 28
Opening Event:
A tea ceremony “Happening of Water, Leaf, Yang (Fire) and Human”
Date:
Saturday, June 29 / 11:30am, 2:30pm, 4pm, 5:30pm
Sunday, June 30 / 11:30am, 2:30pm, 4pm
Number of seats: 6 in each time / Reached the fixed number.
4,500 JPY (All the seats are booked.)
Farmoon
COSMIC WONDER Khadi work Haori
“An Empty Vessel” Film Screening Party
Khadi cotton “Farmoon” work haori
We are pleased to present work haori for “Farmoon” founder and owner-Chef Masayo Funakoshi, from the early summer collection of COSMIC WONDER”Celestial Aura”.
We will hold a film screening ”An Empty Vessel” which explores the memories of the land on the stage of Nara, with the present of work haori made of Indian hand-woven cotton Khadi and serves meals inspired “Celestial Aura” by Masayo Funakoshi.
This event will be held as a related event of the Pop up store.
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Date:
Saturday, June 1, 2019
7pm − 9pm
Place:
Farmoon
9 Higashi-kubota cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyou-ku, Kyoto
Number of seats:
30 / Reached the fixed number
6,000JPY
Please feel free to contact “STARDUST”.
*We stopped accepting applications for this event.
Curated by:
COSMIC WONDER
STARDUST
Farmoon
POP UP STORE:
COSMIC WONDER at STARDUST
June 1 – 9, 2019
Opening Talk:
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Cosmic Wonder Yukinori Maeda and STARDUST Kana Shimizu / Guest: Farmoon Masayo Funakoshi.
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An Empty Vessel (Japanese title: Kara no Utsuwa)
Year 2016. Chef Masayo Funakoshi goes to Nara, Japan. She is now in front of the camera sharing stories taking place from Japan’s ancient land. With an anthropological and artistic approach to discovering Nara, follow her as she explores the roots and culture of the land’s faith and food. Watch her as she creates links as she collects and explores “materials” from her quest, going beyond the boundaries of presenting just a meal. A collaborative feature-length documentary featuring Hiroo Ninomiya as Director, Cinematography from Masato Indo and original music score from Takeo Toyama. Pre-released in Paris in 2018, this will be the second screening in Japan following a successful showing at Wanderers Studio. (Japanese/English subtitles/ Running time: 79 minutes / Production: FOOD CARAVAN)
Masayo Funakoshi
Farmoon Owner-Chef Upon majoring in Sculpture at Pratt Institute, feeling inspired with the expression of cooking, Masayo attends culinary school in New York City. Funakoshi continues to learn how to cook at one of New York City’s most esteemed kitchens, Blue Hill, and travels on to Europe and regions of Asia to explore food culture and cooking. Her travels take her across the Pacific Ocean as chef for an Australian cruise ship, as well as chef for a long-established hotel in Bali. Masayo returns to Japan as director and head chef to open kiln, a restaurant located in central Kyoto. In May 2018, Masayo opened her own atelier, tea salon, private restaurant, Farmoon.
She is also active in global and local projects relating to topics such as food anthropology, art and design.
MASAYO FUNAKOSHI / Instagram
Farmoon / Instagram
An Empty Vessel, 2016, ©︎narafoodcaravan
COSMIC WODENR
“Ryugu” Masonry Traditional Repair Work Course
We are pleased to present “Masonry Traditional Repair Work Course” with Jun Nishikawa of landscape coordinator and Kazuo Akao of repairing a masonry at Miyama, Kyoto.
We will rebuild the collapsed masonry and work on improvement around the masonry so that the masonry will not collapse in the future.
A year ago, when Nishikawa visited Yukinori Maeda’s atelier “Ryugu”, I consulted Nishikawa about the fact that the masonry was broken.
“I want to repair the broken masonry, I do not want to use concrete to solidify the masonry if possible…because the finish is natural and beautiful..it is environmentally friendly”.
“Old people did not use concrete… I want to restore it in the old way”. We repeated discussion with Akao about how to repair and how to maintain it.
As well as rebuilding the masonry, we will do repair work including the cause of the breakage, and we will disclose the basics of how to pile the stone and work to the local people and those who are in trouble.
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Schedule:
May 15 − May 21, 2019 / 9am − around 5pm
15th (Wed.): Preparation of work, Square stone partial dismantling removal
16th (Thu.): Square stone partial reloading
17th (Fri.): Building improvement work
18th (Sat.): Masonry restoration work
19th (Sun.): Masonry restoration work
20th (Mon.): Improvement work on surrounding area of masonry
21st (Tue.): Adjustment date, Clean up
Place:
Kayabuki-no-sato, Miyama, Kyoto (National preservation district of historic buildings)
Fee:
2,000 JPY ( Fee is uniform regardless of the number days)
Lunch:
500 JPY (Indian Curry and Original dishes etc by Cooking department of Kousagisya farm)
Recruitment number:
5～8 (each day)
Apply in e-mail. Send your name, telephone number, address to the following address.
*We stopped accepting applications for this event.
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Kazuharu Wakao
Director of Art Land Limited.
He is good at landscaping civil engineering work using natural stone and natural materials in consideration of the environment.
Manufacturing Meister, Director of regeneration of the earth in Kanto-Koshinetsu region.
Jun Nishikawa
Landscape department of Kousagisya.
Working in environment-friendly agriculture in Chino-sho, Mie prefecture.
He had been coordinating environment harmonic gardening.
Celestial Festival
Beautiful Festival of Stars
From holy me
From holy you
Shine light of universe
Echoing the light sound of heaven and earth
Now We are playing to live in harmony with everything on this star.
We are enjoying it as the earth is rising. A lot of lights dance from the sky, and we are entering a new era.
We are pleased to present all Space Blessing Festival “Celestial Festival” at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
Mirei Hattori will be poetry reading and Facilitator, Hoshi-no-bouzu tells us the voices of the shining stars,
Feminyan reads the stars of the Heaven and leads them to a beautiful dimension.
Art sound unit “Jue and Anoa” will perform a primitive performance.
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Date:
Saturday, May 25, 2019
1pm − around 4pm
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*It will be open from 3:30pm on the 25th.
Number of seats:
70 / Reached the fixed number
5,000 JPY
*We stopped accepting applications for this event.
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Hoshi-no-bouzu
Hoshi-no-bouzu write stories from the star’s voices, while farming in Saku, Nagano Prefecture.
Feminyan
Feminyan uses western astrology, oriental four pillars of destiny and feng shui to understand the resonance with stars and nature, read through each person’s life drawing.
Mirei Hattori
Autor, Chief Editor of “murmur magazine”, Poet.
Jue and Anoa
Art sound unit of MAMIUMU (sound artist) and Yukinori Maeda (Contemporary artist and Founder of Cosmic Wonder).
Japanese handcrafted Baskets Part Ⅳ
Sinomenium acutum basket, Kagoshima Prefecture
Japanese handicrafts made with natural raw materials are an embodiment of appreciation, awe and respect for nature.
They reflect the traditional Japanese satoyama lifestyle that people and nature coexist sustainably. (In a satoyama, people typically forms a community (=sato) with farmlands, on the border of a forest (=yama). A forest is a resource for their living, being managed sustainably by sato residents.)
In such satoyama living, the art of livingware handcrafting has been passed along from generation to generation, producing practical and useful objects. They provide insights into a lifestyle in harmony with nature.
For this exhibition, Naoyoshi Maeda (Cosmic Wonder, Light & Will) sourced handcrafted baskets by visiting local craftspeople in various places from Akita to Okinawa.
Each of their work is unique and representative of the regions where they are crafted. Their rustic beauty attracts us.
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Japanese wingnut tree large basket, document tray and accessories tray, Akita Prefecture
Wild grapevine basket and travel bag, Akita Prefecture
Suzutake and moutain cherry tree basket, Miyagi Prefecture
Japanese bird cherry palm winnow, Niigata Prefecture
Keyaki and wild grapevine basket, Niigata Prefecture
Walnut tree basket, Niigata Prefecture
Madake fugo, herb-gathering basket, Biwa basket, Chiba Prefecture
Medake palm, Chiba Prefecture
Nemagaridake vegetable basket and basket, Nagano Prefecture
Hanon bamboo tray and shopping basket, Nagasaki Prefecture
Kinchiku and mountain cherry tree winnow, Kagoshima Prefecture
Hedge bamboosa basket, Okinawa Prefecture
Toutsurumodoki harvest basket, Okinawa Prefecture
Shell ginger rope shoulder basket, mat, pillow, Okinawa Prefecture
Kuba leaves basket, shoulder basket, Okinawa Prefecture
etc.
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Exhibition period:
May 11 − May 19, 2019
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: May 1, 10
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 11 / 3pm − 6pm
*Naoyoshi Maeda will be attending on May 11.
Japanese wingnut tree basket and flower vase, Akita Prefecture
Exhibition
COSMIC WONDER
Celestial Aura
Organic cotton light lawn Lac and Catechu herbal dyed gray-moon mythic wrapped dress
We are pleased to present 19S/S collection “Celestial Aura” at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
New items has be available from comfortable Linen, Kadhi and Organic cotton’s beautiful Mythic dress collection.
Dyeing from Sumi-dyed Sumikuro, Lac herbal dyed amethyst, Lac and Catechu herbal dyed gray-moon, precious Ryukyu indigo grown on Okinawa island etc.
Date:
from Saturday, March 16
Opening reception:
Saturday, March 16 / 4pm − 6pm
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: March 11 − 15
We will serve special sweets “Celestial Jelly” by Yoshihiro Ishida of “Shizuku”.
We will offer Kadhi bag to purchaser.
*Limited quantity
Kaoru Yokoo
The Awakening Universe
Waist-gathered dress with lace like beard and like moss
We are pleased to present Kaoru Yokoo repaired the clothes of Cosmic Wonder’s “The Awakening Universe” at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
Cosmic Wonder’s clothing which has dyed natural materials occasionally some things that can not be handed over due to color spots and fabric cracks.
Kaoru Yokoo will perform art handwork such as embroidery and knitting to breathe new breath to them.
Tea room “Yokoo and A.K Labo” will be opened for only opening day at the 3rd exhibition.
A.K Labo of Kichijoji makes special production using the ingredients of Cosmic Wonder’s production base Miyama, Kyoto.
Please enjoy Kaoru Yokoo’s repaired clothes collection “The Awakening Universe” of the beautiful technique and her creative worldview.
Exhibition period:
December 15 − December 24, 2018
*The artist will be attending on December 15
*It will end as soon as it is sold out.
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
Opening Event:
Tearoom “Yokoo and A.K Labo”
Saturday, December 15 / 11:30am, 2pm, 3:30pm, 5pm
Number of seats: 4 in each time / Reached the fixed number.
2,500 JPY
Kaoru Yokoo
1979 Born in Tokyo.
Active mainly on rectification by handwork such as embroidery or the crochet.
Patisserie A.K Labo
French confectionery store opened in Kichijoji in 2003.
French local sweet and traditional confectionery.
We will serve daily snacks.
There is also a cafe and gallery.
Wrapped dress with hand-embroidered like rice cooked in the earthenware pot