The "Nokumon Jomon Dogu Banzai Exhibition" will be held on March 11th in Hirosaki's gallery "Narumi Kayo Memorial Tohbokan" (Kadaoura, Hirosaki, TEL 0172-82-2902).

Eight artists based in Hirosaki who are active in Aomori exhibit the theme of "Aomori and Hakodate clay figurines". Masaharu Nagauchi, a sawdust craftsman living in a wooden town and one of the founders, said, "When I thought about doing a project to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen, I thought about an exhibition event with the theme of "Dogu". ".

"The shader clay figurine, which is well known, was found in a wooden town, and Hakodate has a hollow clay figurine designated as the first national treasure in Hokkaido," said Mr. Nagauchi. “Aomori and Hakodate have a lot of artifacts from the Jomon period, so if you can get excited with clay figurines across the strait,” he smiles.

Shogo Aoyagi, one of the exhibiting artists and mobile author, said, “This is the first time to do a cutout of a clay figurine, and when I tried to make a cutout of a clay figurine, I tried to arrange it, but I could not do anything to the finished design. Reveals." "Mr. Toru Narita, who was from Aomori and worked on designs for Ultraman, was also influenced by the design of the clay figurines," he said.

During the exhibition, Mr. Aoyagi will hold a "Chokichoki Dogu Kirie" workshop. Create a clay figurine with a paper cutout and put it in a frame to create a clay figurine frame (500 yen), and create a mobile with three papercutting papers. The date and time of the event will be March 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 13:00 each day Mr. Aoyagi says, "If you can feel the clay figurine a little closer to you."

Mr. Nagauchi calls for visitors to say, "The charm of the clay figurine is that you can touch the high aesthetic sense and design sense of the people at that time. People who are not interested should definitely visit."

Opening hours are 9:00 to 16:00 (closed on March 14). free entrance. Until March 20th.