Works — Commercial
Mikawa Bushi no Yakata Ieyasu-kan | Armor projection mapping
2021.12 — 2022.01 | Projection mapping
At Mikawa Bushi no Yakata Ieyasu-kan in Okazaki, Aichi, I made projection mapping onto a suit of armor. Okazaki is the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu, a castle town where the story of the warlord who laid the foundation for a long peace still lives.
Updating an exhibition with film
Layering images of light onto a suit of armor standing still. When a historical object meets film, it begins to move in the viewer's imagination. A relic of the past behind glass rises up as a living story inside each person. An attempt to update the very experience of an exhibition through film.
Telling a story with light
Combining motion graphics and projection mapping, I wrote in light a story that can only be told in that place: the form of the armor, the air of the era, the spirit dwelling in it. I took care to layer the light gently, without erasing the texture of the real object.
Under the production of HITOHATA Inc., a Nagoya-based digital content company, I created the projection mapping content. The same year, I also took part in the “Heian picture scroll” projection mapping at Saiku in Mie. It is work that layers beautiful Japanese culture with today's visual expression.
I have worked on projection mapping in Nagoya since 2017. In 2019, I also took part in 3D projection mapping for Amazon Fashion Week (HIROKO KOSHINO).
- Venue
- Mikawa Bushi no Yakata Ieyasu-kan 1F entrance561-1 Kosei-cho, Okazaki, Aichi (inside Okazaki Park)
- Period
- December 24, 2021 — January 10, 2022
- Object
- An original suit of armor, 2 meters tallModeled on the “Iyozane Kuroito Odoshi Domaru Gusoku,” said to have been worn by Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara
- Method
- Composite projection mapping combining direct projection onto the armor with a rear-projection screenAbout five minutes of content, projected continuously
- Produced by
- Organized by Okazaki City and Okazaki Public Service / planned and produced by HITOHATA Inc.
- Role
- Projection mapping content production
Credits
- Organizer
- Okazaki City / Okazaki Public Service
- Planning and production
- HITOHATA Inc.
- Content production
- Narita Jun (WAVE CREATIVE)
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