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"Ten Thousand Things" is a Buddhist expression representing the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of everything in the universe.

CHIHAN ART PROJECT – artist performance & installation series – in Ohito, the Izu Peninsula

One of the best things about Japan are independent creative initiatives generated purely for love of the arts.

The "Chihan Project" located in the traditional Japanese house belonging for over two hundred years to a multi-generational family of art patrons is one of many beautiful examples of individual Japanese patronage of the arts now encompassing a global reach.

Situated on the Izu Peninsula (its mountainous and hot spring-filled landscape is touted in tourist literature for inspiring Nobel Prize laureate Yasunari Kawabata's Izu Dancer) the Chihan Art Project is an ongoing artist series. It includes live-in workshops, performances/installations on site, and a space for good food and company.

Visual artists, dancers, and musicians who come to Ohito collaborate in transnational circles with linkages between Japan, Europe, and the U.S.

The first Chihan Art Project event was a music concert featuring shakuhachi player Christopher Yomei, vocalist Mika Kimula, and pianist Ayako Ono on April 14, 2007. U.S.-based dancers/choreographers Roko Kawai and Leah Stein came to begin collaborating with Tokyo artists Hideo Arai (movement artist) and Mika Kimula In October 2007. These three collaborators joined U.S.-based percussionist Toshi Makihara in November 2008.

The website has details on upcoming events.

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