Triennale Aims to Energize Tokyo's Odaiba Area with Art

   Tokyo, Nov. 27 (Jiji Press)--A major international art festival will be held in Tokyo in October-December 2025, with an aim to bring new energy to the Odaiba waterfront area of the Japanese capital.
   Organized by the Tokyo metropolitan government and a related executive committee, "Tokyo Odaiba Triennale 2025" will have the theme "Peaceful sleep disturbed by Jokisen--Wildness, Chaos and a New World," inspired by a "kyoka" comic poem from the 1850s. Jokisen means a steamship or a kind of high-quality green tea in Japanese.
   The poem is said to have been written to describe the confusion caused to Japanese society by the arrival near Edo, now Tokyo, in the 1850s by then U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry's steamships with the demand for the opening up of the closed Asian country. Artillery batteries were set up in the Odaiba area following the arrival of the U.S. ships.
   The organizers of the festival, scheduled to be held from Oct. 18 to Dec. 25 next year, say they aim to "adorn this district with something extraordinary by harnessing the power of cutting-edge art."
   The triennale will take place across Odaiba, which has both modern attractions and important history, with event venues including Daiba Park, the head office building of Fuji Television Network Inc. and the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, better known as Miraikan, according to the organizers.

(2024/11/27-20:34)

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