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Ho Tzu Nyen: Night March of Hundred Monsters
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
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Ho Tzu Nyen
Ho Tzu Nyen creates works that cross genres and involve multiple media, including video, installation, sound, and theater. His dynamic, mysterious art fascinates viewers and mainly engages with themes and issues in Asia, especially his birthplace of Singapore.
In this exhibition, one hundred bizarre and humorous Yokai parade through the darkness, as if in an old picture scroll. Among them, we find a number of Japanese who took part in the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II (Singapore was part of Malaya until 1965). They include General Yamashita , who lead the Singapore Attack, and Yutaka Tani, the Japanese bandit who became the model for the hero protagonist of 1960s TV show “Kaiketsu Harimau”. Both Yamashita and Tani were given the nickname “Tiger of Malaya”. In the Yokai parade, they are accompanied by soldiers, spies, and thinkers of the time whose work stayed in the background. The Yokai – monsters that emerge from the cracks of everyday life, much like in the war – reflect an era that was fascinated by evil.
As times changed the Yokai, these beings that fascinate people and fill them with fear and curiosity, have wandered between folklore and science, nature and the supernatural, oblivion and nostalgia. They may have gradually disappeared from our daily lives as people stopped believing in their existence but are now roaming freely in the imaginary worlds of anime and manga. They disappeared with the dawn of the modern era, then war swept the world, and now the Yokai are back in Japanese contemporary culture. At the intersection of past and present, Japan’s complex spiritual history emerges.
In this exhibition, one hundred bizarre and humorous Yokai parade through the darkness, as if in an old picture scroll. Among them, we find a number of Japanese who took part in the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II (Singapore was part of Malaya until 1965). They include General Yamashita , who lead the Singapore Attack, and Yutaka Tani, the Japanese bandit who became the model for the hero protagonist of 1960s TV show “Kaiketsu Harimau”. Both Yamashita and Tani were given the nickname “Tiger of Malaya”. In the Yokai parade, they are accompanied by soldiers, spies, and thinkers of the time whose work stayed in the background. The Yokai – monsters that emerge from the cracks of everyday life, much like in the war – reflect an era that was fascinated by evil.
As times changed the Yokai, these beings that fascinate people and fill them with fear and curiosity, have wandered between folklore and science, nature and the supernatural, oblivion and nostalgia. They may have gradually disappeared from our daily lives as people stopped believing in their existence but are now roaming freely in the imaginary worlds of anime and manga. They disappeared with the dawn of the modern era, then war swept the world, and now the Yokai are back in Japanese contemporary culture. At the intersection of past and present, Japan’s complex spiritual history emerges.
Schedule | Oct 23 (Sat) 2021-Jan 23 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1000; University and High School Students ¥800; Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free. | ||||||
| Website | https://www.museum.toyota.aichi.jp/en/exhibition/ho-tzu-nyen-temporary-title/?t=plan | ||||||
| Venue | Toyota Municipal Museum of Art https://www.museum.toyota.aichi.jp/en/?en | ||||||
| Location | 8-5-1 Kozakahonmachi, Toyota-shi, Aichi 471-0034 | ||||||
| Access | 15 minute walk from the East exit of Toyotashi Station on the Meitetsu Toyota line, 15 minute walk from Shin-toyota Station on the Aichi Loop line. | ||||||
| Phone | 0565-34-6610 | ||||||
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