Tokyo Light Odyssey & Woodland Shade at Japan House
There’s always something new and exciting to explore at Japan House. Now there are two exhibitions running parallelly: Tokyo Light Odyssey, which is a 360o immersive motion graphic exhibition, transporting visitors into a vibrant and colourful vision of a pulsing sleepless city.
Woodland Shade is an interactive exhibition of traditional Japanese wooden dolls, called: kokeshi dolls and otaka poppo toys.
The exhibition gives us a glimpse into to old local craft of Tohoku region of northern Japan. Having been recreated by digital technology, these wooden dolls and toys allow visitors to discover more about their history throughout fun interactive digital experiences.
The two exhibitions are FREE and open until 22 March.
Tokyo Light Odyssey
The 5 minutes 25 seconds motion graphic experience transports visitors into Tokyo’s vivid night lights.
Visitors ride through millions of illuminating windows, fly among glowing skyscrapers, run through an underground, sprint with the traffic in a tunnel and wonder around mini planets of lights and sleepy local homes.
Woodland Shade
Kokeshi dolls were traditional toys with simple painted decoration. Some of these decorations were made for healthy growth of children as kokeshi dolls were believed to have spiritual power and can protect children from the evil and from harm. Today kokesi dolls are sold as souvenirs.
130 faces of inhabitants from Yamagata Prefecture are projected to undecorated kokeshi dolls.
You can have your face scanned by a computer and the simplified version of your portrait will appear on one of the wooden dolls displayed. (I’m the second one from the left-hand side)
Visitors can create their own virtual wooden toy while learn more interesting facts about them.
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