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Yukiya Izumita describes his work as an exploration of \"wave-like forms\" that emerge as the artist's intentions and emotions are impressed into the clay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/tc\u003e","brand":"THE ART of ESPACIO NAGOYA CASTLE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54169820233941,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/7139\/0421\/files\/01_P12_YukiyaIzumita_003_Fin.jpg?v=1783417195"},{"product_id":"hakuryu","title":"White Dragon","description":"\u003ctc\u003eThe plaster wall artwork White Dragon by plaster artist Shuhei Hasado welcomes guests at the banquet entrance of ESPACIO Nagoya Castle. Employing traditional plastering techniques, Hasado created two White Dragons in descent rather than ascent. 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Above you, a beautiful dragon, its form raised from plaster and trowel relief, floats, its body spreading out as if enveloping the space. 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The resulting clay lumps are molded into ceramic panels, and the distortions that occur during molding and firing are left as they are. As Takao Nakamura, who created this work, describes it as \u0026quot;sculpture made of clay,\u0026quot; the unique, natural fluctuations that are not shapes intentionally created by humans bring a distinctive character and a quiet breath to the space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'ＭＳ 明朝'; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE ART of ESPACIO NAGOYA CASTLE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54169872171221,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/7139\/0421\/files\/P143_TakuoNakamura_002_Fin.jpg?v=1783418751"},{"product_id":"not-vessel01","title":"Vessel Not a Vessel - Houoh Suite","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u0026quot;The Vessel That Stopped Being a Vessel\u0026quot; is a work that creates a new relationship with space by not possessing the physical form of a vessel. The pair of ceramic panels, which make use of the natural deformation and distortion of clay, blur the boundary between inside and outside, while also carrying on the aesthetic sense of continuity and discontinuity seen in the planar compositions of Tawaraya Sōtatsu and Ogata Kōrin, and in picture scrolls, into the modern age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'ＭＳ 明朝'; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE ART of ESPACIO NAGOYA CASTLE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54169881116885,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/7139\/0421\/files\/P154_TakuoNakamura_001_Fin.jpg?v=1783418891"},{"product_id":"houoh-no-hane_hasado","title":"Phoenix Feathers","description":"\u003ctc\u003eInstalled in the \"Daichi\" guest room, this dynamic work serves as its symbolic centerpiece. 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