By LISA VOGT/ Special to Asahi Weekly
May 24, 2022 at 14:30 JST
Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, believed to be the world’s largest international art festival, is a massive exhibition with lofty ideals of reconnecting art and nature. It takes place in a rural region spanning 760 square kilometers in Niigata Prefecture. (Photo by Lisa Vogt)
Echizen (current Fukui / Ishikawa Prefecture), Etchu (current Toyama Prefecture) and Echigo (current Niigata Prefecture)--these old area names all have something in common. The first part is the kanji meaning to “to crossover” or “to pass through”, and it derives from the geographical location of people “having to go beyond” this region to get to the emperor when the center of Japan was in Kyoto. [Read More]
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