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Osaka/Kansai Expo Signature Pavilion “Playground of Life Jellyfish Hall” sponsored by Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns with 1000 Years of History
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The Osaka/Kansai Expo Signature Pavilion “Playground of Life Jellyfish Hall” is an expression of a place to reaffirm the value and charm of Japanese traditional crafts and pass them on to the next generation, through collaboration with the Six Ancient Kilns Japan Heritage Utilization Council. Incorporate.
The signature pavilion “Jellyfish Museum, Playground of Life” (producer: Sachiko Nakajima, musician, mathematician, STEAM educator, representative of steAm Co., Ltd.) of the 2025 Osaka/Kansai Expo theme project “Enhancing Life” , Jellyfish Museum) creates a place of co-creation where people can feel the joy and joy of living and enhance their lives together through play, learning, sports, and art. On the first floor of the Jellyfish Hall, “Suikei”, you will find the Six Ancient Kilns Japan Heritage Utilization Council (Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture, Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture, Koka City, Shiga Prefecture, Tanba Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture, Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture). With the support of (elongated tiles) will be incorporated into part of the exhibit. We are planning a production in which visitors to the pavilion will be able to experience the charm of traditional crafts that have been honed over a deep history through dialogue with “things” called clay bars.
Shigaraki ware, one of Japan’s six oldest kilns, has been included in exhibitions at the past two World Expos (1970 and 1990), providing an opportunity to spread the appeal of Japan’s traditional crafts to the world. At the 2025 Osaka/Kansai Expo, the circle will expand even further, with six pottery producing regions joining forces. This support by the Six Ancient Kilns Japan Heritage Utilization Council as a “supplier” was made possible because the council sympathized with and sympathized with the concept of “Jellyfish Museum, a Playground of Life.”
[Message from Sachiko Nakajima, producer of the Osaka/Kansai Expo theme project “Enhancing Life”]
Although it is a prestigious traditional craft that has been passed down over a long history, its essence lies in the “joy of creating”, which is something familiar to each of us that can be felt in our daily lives. When we create something, we feel pure joy within ourselves through dialogue with the object, and we stuff that joy into the object. This is not limited to traditional crafts, but is common to all creative activities such as architecture and mathematics. At the Jellyfish Museum, we aim to “democratize creativity” and create performances that allow each participant to view the “joy of creation” as their own. One example of this is the exhibition of clay bars in a waterscape created in collaboration with Japan’s Rokko Kiln. Many children will also be participating as creators before the event begins. Please come and experience their clay bar filled with the joy of creating.
At the same time, the Jellyfish Museum will help all those involved in this project (inheritors, creators, viewers, etc.) reaffirm the value of traditional Japanese crafts from their respective perspectives, and connect them to a more open world. It will be a place for. We hope that many people will participate.
▶ “Playground of Life Jellyfish Hall” 2025 Japan World Exposition Theme Project Official Website
https://expo2025-kuragepj.com/
[About Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns]
Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns is a collective term for the six pottery production areas where pottery production has continued from about 1,000 years ago to the present day, and is the oldest existing group of pottery production areas in Japan. “Shigaraki ware” from Koka City, Shiga Prefecture, “Tamba ware” from Tamba Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture, “Bizen ware” from Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture, “Echizen ware” from Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture, “Seto ware” from Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, Aichi Prefecture. There is “Tokoname ware” from Tokoname City, Prefecture.
In April 2017, Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns were recognized as one of the Japan Heritage Sites by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Currently, six production regions have formed a council to revitalize the region through the use of cultural assets and traditional culture for tourism.
▶Official website of the Six Ancient Kilns Japanese Heritage Utilization Council https://sixancientkilns.jp/
[About the Osaka/Kansai Expo Six Ancient Kilns of Japan related projects] In Koka City, Shiga Prefecture, one of Japan’s six oldest kiln production areas, Koka EXPO 2024 will be held this fall with the common themes of “Creating momentum for the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo,” “Achieving SDGs goals,” and “20th anniversary of the city’s
incorporation.” ‘ will be held. Sachiko Nakajima, producer of the Osaka-Kansai Expo theme project “Enhancing Life,” and architect Tetsuo Kobori, who is in charge of the basic design of the jellyfish museum, are also scheduled to participate in the event.
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