Prayers contained in beliefs and customs. The sense of the people that is at the bottom of all of them. A solo exhibition by Terada Hideji will be held.

Nakada-cho, Tatebe-cho, Okayama Prefecture, was once home to samurai who guarded the borders of neighboring clans, as well as merchants and craftsmen who supported their daily lives. The former Omura Residence of the former Tatebe-cho Aburaya Honke, which still remains, was converted into a gallery complex calledfirst".

It deals with six categories: clothing, food, housing, fun, knowledge, and beauty. The store focuses on the display and sale of contemporary art, and also introduces crafts, and has a teahouse.

In such a same gallery,Terada HidejiA solo exhibition "The People" will be held by

Terada is an artist who focuses on the Japanese calendar, annual events, folk beliefs, and other folk activities that live in people's daily lives, and tries to capture the thoughts and feelings of the people in their prayers and wishes.

The Gallery describes "the people" as follows.

This exhibition explores the prayers and wishes that have been passed down through Japanese events, beliefs, and customs as part of daily life. The exhibition will explore from a contemporary perspective the sensibilities of the "people" that underlie these events, beliefs, and customs. Terada has been creating works that explore the boundary between form and meaning, placing herself between the scenery and descriptions left in old historical documents and the structure and poetic nature of ideographic characters such as Chinese characters. In this exhibition, she will present a variety of forms of "people," a faceless group of people, centering on "ODOLI," which depicts a primordial dance without a form as free body movement, recalling the origin of Bon dance. It is a resistance to make visible in the present age the collective memory and voiceless voices that tend to be buried in history and institutions, and at the same time, it is a connection to the unconscious memory engraved in the body of each one of us. HITOTSUMI HATSUNE hopes that this exhibition will awaken the sense of "Japan" that lies dormant within the viewer, and provide an opportunity for a new landscape to emerge between the past and present, the individual and the collective, and the visible and invisible.

The extensive merchandise sales are also not to be missed.

This is a shochu brewery located in Kushima City in the southernmost part of Miyazaki Prefecture.Shoro Sake BreweryShochu in collaboration with "Terada". It is covered with a label newly drawn by Terada. Inside is a sweet potato shochu made by combining traditional methods with innovative distillation methods and storing the original in wooden chestnut barrels. It has a clean aroma of sweet potato, a herbal aroma like white flowers, and a creamy, round, woody aftertaste derived from the barrels.

Dead stock Kutani-yaki flower vases painted by Terada will also be on display.

The exhibition introduced above starts on Saturday, October 4. The Setouchi International Art Festival is held once every three years during the same period, so it is recommended to visit in conjunction with the festival.