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Untitled / Giffany - Limited Edition 1 of 1 Photograph

Hideki Fukada

United States

Photography, Color on Paper

Size: 52 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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Japanese Culture and Copy, Remake   Essentially there is no distinction between an original and the copy in Japanese culture. While material culture is made by stone in the western nations, wood is used in Japan. Destroying the original is a final destruction which can never be brought back to life and as a result material culture becomes completely extinct. Paris was fighting constantly trying to protect its culture’s destruction in this way. However material culture in the West and in Japan was licentiously left to its self­indulgence until its preservation was actively planned according to modern cultural principles. When we think about war or fire in the past, the survival of material culture is indeed merely coincidental. We can’t say that only select and good quality pieces were left in a historical manner. The finest sculpture of Praxiteles in Greece might still lie deep in the mediterranean sea. But the fate suffered in the past by the Japanese formative arts that depended on woods and papers were much more thorough than this. The cultural assets that were lost in the Onin war were countless and the temples and shrines in Kyoto that survived this war survived by sheer luck. Probably, the relationship to such materials is one of the reason why the adherence to material culture is comparatively thin in Japan and why the transfer to cultural forms with premise disappearance is characteristic. In this theory, the destruction of the original results in not just the absolute destruction of the original but also a decisive value difference between the original and the copy never occurs. We can see this in the simple example found in the rebuilding of the shrine (Shikinen sengu) in Ise Grand Shrine. (Shikinen Sengu takes place periodically at Ise Grand Shrine. Two primary buildings,Naiku(Kotai­Jingu) and Geku(Toyouke­Daijingu) and the other 14 adjacent shrines attached to this shrine are rebuilt and refurbished together with the deities every 20 years. At the same time Hoden gai heiden, Torii, Mikaki, and Mike­dono etc. total 65 buildings and other treasures, artifacts and the Uji bridge are also refurbished or rebuilt. ) The Shikinen Sengu was begun in the reign of Empress Jito about 1300 years ago but the newly built Ise Grand Shrine becomes the original. The previous “original” entrust its life to the new “original” and dies down and then the copy becomes the original. Comparable to the burden of the Classical Period of Greek sculpture that we can only see them today through the copies of the Roman Period, the culture concept of the Shikinen Sengu in Ise Grand Shrine is much more unique. Like “Honkadori” (Elaborate adaptation from a famous poem. Mention later.) and others in the art of Tanka poetry, this kind of culture concept still occupies a deep part of our heart today. With a peculiar national character, history, geographical location and climate in Japan, the national traits in the culture is remarkable. The traditional patterns that Japanese entertainment such as Noh and Kabuki is a clue for the transmission to its successors who are also stimulated by the clue itself. Formality constantly arousing freedom is a feature of the Japanese performing arts. Since early 20th century’s naturalism, Japanese modern novel which seems at first sight the most unfettered genre made several times more effort for the literary style than the ideology even though it was unintentional. Japanese writer Yukio Mishima says that the essence of culture is not found in either materials or in the spirit of a nation. Although it is the consequence of materials, it is “a form” which may be metaphorically described as a crystal through which we can see the spirit of a nation. No matter how much the crystal becomes opaque, it still holds enough transparency to see them. Therefore it includes not only material culture but also the deeds of the people and the pattern of those deeds.

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Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:52 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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