Tanaka Fumio Library (Tsumari) 妻有田中文男文庫

Opened in 2007 in a former community centre in Shimojo, the library holds the research on the rural houses of Akiyama gathered over fifty years by master builder Tanaka Fumio, staged in 2009 by the artist Yamamoto Sotaro with an installation of books lit in seven colours.

A venue of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, opened in 2007 in the former premises of a community centre (公民館) in Shimojo, in the municipality of Tokamachi (address: 十日町市下条1-325, 〒949-8603). It houses the book collection donated by Tanaka Fumio, a master builder known for his studies of the traditional wooden rural houses (minka) of the Akiyama area, gathered over about fifty years of research. In 2009 the artist Yamamoto Sotaro created there an installation of books lit in seven colours, which places display elements beside real books to make the eye waver between the everyday and the extraordinary. A separate source reports that the works ‘天の光、地の光II’ and ‘農具の時間’ (the latter with farming tools suspended in mid-air) have also been shown in the same space.

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Gejō, 上新田

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