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[Image: ©SATO Shintaro, Courtesy of PGI]

Shintaro Sato “The Origin of Tokyo”

PGI
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Artists

Shintaro Sato
Tokyo is undergoing a major wave of change in preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games. Rather than focus on these changes, Shintaro Sato has chosen to photograph one of the only locations not to be affected – the Imperial Palace. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Shogun who moved the nation’s capital to Edo, employed Chinese geomancy when designing the palace and planning the city. Sato found the difference between the virtually alien ways of the past and the current goings-on of modern Tokyo to be both perplexing and fascinating. All photographs in this series were made on clear winter nights during the so-called “blue hour.” The contrast between the bright city lights, the dim tree-lined palace and the distant Mt. Fuji reveal that not all nature has been swallowed up by the city. This exhibition will feature five archival pigment prints.

Schedule

Feb 27 (Wed) 2019-Apr 13 (Sat) 2019 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
11:00-18:00
Closed
Sunday, Holidays
FeeFree
Websitehttp://www.pgi.ac/en/exhibitions/4325/
VenuePGI
http://www.pgi.ac/index.php?lang=en
Location3F TKB Bldg., 2-3-4 Higashi-azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044
Access4 minute walk from the Nakanohashi exit of Akabanebashi Station on the Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 6 at Azabu-juban Station on the Namboku or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 1 at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line.
Phone03-5114-7935
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