Information on the "Woodworker Masami Tokuda Exhibition"

As the trees shed their leaves day by day, the attention-seeking Japanese knotweed stands alongside the golden ears of silvergrass, delighting the eyes.

Utsushiki will be holding an exhibition of woodworker Masami Tokuda .

Please take advantage of this rare opportunity to come and experience the life in the works of Tokuda, who sees the changes that occur over time in wood as a part of its life and approaches his craftsmanship with this in mind.

Woodworker Masami Toda Exhibition Period: November 18th (Sat) - November 27th (Monday)
Business hours 13:00-17:00
Artist presence date: 18th (Sat)
Store closed on 21st (Tue) and 22nd (Wed) during the event
Location

Speaking and writing

I've used words and I still do, but sometimes I hate them.

At times like that, I am often quiet and only write short sentences (which is why I make things in the first place).

If you live in society, you have no choice but to use it.

Speaking and writing.

Why do I start to dislike it? I thought so later on.

Do you feel uncomfortable with the idea of ​​thinking with words alone, giving answers, and controlling things?

Is it a virtual sense of values ​​that is created by something like a name tag that has no substance to represent something and takes on a life of its own?

I'm even writing this here

I guess it can't be helped, but I hope it doesn't come to that.

This is a slightly different story, but I originally listened to music on records.

It's sometimes inconvenient to listen to records, so I record them on cassette tapes.

I listened to it until the tape stretched.

(I still think the sound of stretched tape is great, that swaying sound.)

When it was released as a CD, I thought the clear, high-fidelity sound was great at first, but

It hurts my ears and I don't know why it makes noise, and I feel like it's bad for my body and brain.

Records make sound even without electricity if you put your ear close to them

But I ran out of records so I listened to it on CD.

Then subscription services started. CDs are still physical.

It's a subscription service where the music floats invisibly through the air via WiFi, can be captured on your iPhone, and then listened to.

I felt like if I listened to something less substantial, music would get boring.

Digital technology erases the range of sounds that humans cannot hear, but still allows you to hear

I'm sure they cut it vertically and only left the cross section, so it's like a table of contents.

I haven't done any verification or research, I just want to write what I feel.

The amount of contents changes depending on the interval at which you separate the books, so the CD has a lot of contents because the intervals are short.

Subscriptions will reduce data usage, so there will be longer intervals and fewer table of contents

What is music?

I care as much about the sound of the guitar as I do about the ensemble and melody, or maybe even more.

I like the voice and the sound itself

What is that?

What I want to hear most is the sounds that I can't hear!

After all, it's just a table of contents, so I thought it would be fine to subscribe to it.

Live performance No. 1

Next, records (although there are hardly any analog recordings or mixes these days, they are still played on the spot)

At least listen to the third verse on CD.

Cassette tapes are also exceptionally good.

This makes the role of subscriptions clear and there is no other method that is as convenient and appropriate, so it feels like everything is in order.

I went off the rails a lot, but when I got back on track

Words are a way for people to communicate with others, to preserve things, or to capture something sensory in a visible form.

I think of it as a subscription or table of contents that makes it possible to think about academic subjects.

I think it's just a means to achieve a goal, and the true essence of it isn't there.

There are cultures that do not use writing but are passed down orally, and we know this because it is something that has substance, a voice.

The sound is important, and it conveys something scary, or gentle, or happy, or sad, etc.

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An era without words

Imagine what it must have been like inside a human's head.

Currently, people can only recognize things once they have words and names for them.

Primitive, a world of sensations without beginning and end, of the present moment, which cannot be perceived and therefore cannot be thought of!

That means that the inner world is connected somewhere and is an infinity freed from the table of contents.

Wow! What a sensory world it is!

I admire you so much I want to get closer!

Although, it might be impossible for me now that I know the words.

When you make something, you scoop it out of the mud.

It can't be made from clear water, but it's the waste that is important and cherished.

Become the most useless person in the world and create the most useless thing in the universe!

Masami Tokuda

"An exhibition is about capturing the present moment of yourself as you move towards a certain goal," says Tokuda.

With the onset of winter, the days get shorter and shorter.

When I was watching the plants change color in the Utsushiki Garden,

This moment seems irreplaceable.

In this irreplaceable moment

I am truly looking forward to being with you all.

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Exhibition of woodworker Masami Tokuda