𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐈 𝐁𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐎𝐎 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄.

𝐎𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟑 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞́𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐢 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐥𝐲 – 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜

ICHIKAWA Youna (born 1988, Ibaraki)

Nichigetsu-shōshin
“The Sun, the Moon and the Stars”

Rinkō-ami, circular plaiting in arcs

Trained at the Ōita Prefectural Bamboo Craft Training Center and later under Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, Ichikawa Youna combines technical rigor with great formal sensitivity.

The title Nichigetsu-shōshin refers to the sun, the moon, the stars and, by extension, all phenomena of the universe. Made in rinkō-ami, a circular plaiting technique based on arcs, the work unfolds a fine, open and almost immaterial structure, evoking a celestial vault. Between transparency, spiral movement and the depth of lacquer, it makes bamboo the support for a cosmic meditation, where emptiness becomes a space of union with the world.