Series: Yuichi Tsukada | Haptic Botany, Part 12: The Reading Room as Spring Fades
With books in hand, on the rooftop, as spring fades.
Vol. 12: A Reading Room for Fading Spring
The zelkova and hackberry trees surrounding the greenhouse are rapidly drawing up water, their soft leaves rustling. The postponed "Reading Room for Early Spring" will be held as "A Reading Room for Fading Spring."
With books in hand, on the rooftop, as spring fades. And "Hana-tsuna" begins as vol.0.
Text and Photos by Yuji Tsukada (Representative, Onshitsu Co., Ltd.)
May there always be a world where we can say, "How beautiful."
During the three o'clock break, I'll call her.
The cherry blossom buds have really swollen.
They say you won't get married if you don't put away the Hina dolls...
The near future that should have been.
The exciting rendezvous that should have been.
The warmth that should have been.
A momentary vacuum.
After that, I don't remember anymore.
The birds will eventually chirp, and the flowers will lift their heads.
People will smile again, too.
May there always be a world where we can say,
"How beautiful."
Kerria Japonica
Selected by: Maha Harada (Novelist)
Takumi Akaba (Photographer)
Kenji Nagata (Tax Accountant)
Onshitsu
Planning: Onshitsu
In cooperation with: Lim Green, Makoto Matsuyama, Aikawa Horticulture
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sunday, April 17, 2011, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Admission: 500 yen
Location: Rooftop, Hillside Terrace Annex B, 30-2 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku
Tel. 090-3420-3514 (Tsukada)
A Reading Room for Fading Spring x Hana-tsuna Archipelago Project
At Onshitsu, prompted by the Great East Japan Earthquake, we are advancing the "Hana-tsuna Archipelago Project" to convey the power of flowers.
This time, on a small scale, we want visitors to arrange flowers at the "Reading Room for Fading Spring" event. Like a flower chain poem, an installation will emerge from the flowers each person inserts. A multitude of flowers will bloom in the space of Onshitsu, our reading room, and we hope to convey our feelings, entrusted to flowers, to those affected by the disaster. This will be streamed online, either as video or photographs.
We plan to continue this for as long as possible, borrowing various spaces. We will provide the flowers. Please join us in creating a space of flowers. On this night, soon to be a full moon, let us wish for regeneration under the moon.