The WABI SABI area
With an area of 840 sqm entirely put off for traditional Japanese culture, the WABI SABI area is back for the festival’s 15th anniversary, with an exhibit, demonstrations, workshops and on stage performances, with no less than a hundred artists coming all the way from Japan!
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Since 2011, the WABI SABI area allows the public of Japan Expo to take a deep dive into the heart of Japanese traditions and culture’s most beautiful aspects, thanks to an area that still keeps on growing and evolving every year. In 2014, it extends to over 840 sqm where an exhibit, a performance stage, another stage for demonstrations, a tea house, a true torii and a yagura tower are distributed, all brought together in one area only and giving the impression of being at a true matsuri.
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The WABI SABI area offers, for the 4th year in a row, a Japanese art and handicraft exhibit, promoting for example the yuzen dye, the art of lacquer, and even Hinadolls made of ancient fabrics.
The big stage with a giant screen welcomes all kind of artists, Jôruri puppets, traditional music, awa odori and nihon buyô dances. The program also includes modern demonstrations, such as projection mapping.
On a second stage, Japanese artists come and meet you with demonstrations and calligraphy, textile arts and traditional game workshops.
Real torii gates mark the entrance to the WABI SABI space, like sanctuary torii, the heart of matsuri. The Enshû tea house invites all of those who need to take a relaxing break around one of Japan’s most popular traditions: the tea ceremony. Finally, at the center of all this, the yagura tower allows you to spot the area from afar. The word yagura finds its origins in the towers built at the enclosure of Japanese castles, but nowadays, it also refers to the little towers we find on the streets duringmatsuri, and on which dancers and musicians perform.