Art workInstallationPixel Art
Tatsuta Road Kamenose Picture Scroll
2023
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A visual work created to convey the story of the Japan Heritage site “Tatsuta Ancient Road and Kamenose,” weaving together the landscape of the Tatsuta Ancient Road in the Nara period with local legends handed down since that time. The “Tatsuta Ancient Road” was developed as Japan’s first official road connecting Yamato (Nara) and Kawachi (Osaka) from the Asuka period onward, and in the Nara period in particular it was known as a road traveled by emperors and government officials that played an important role in the nation’s development. Through pixel animation, it meticulously recreates the processions of imperial visits, the dragon said to have descended on Mt. Goza, and the natural scenery depicted in Manyoshu poems.