- 湖独の舞／2023
Seigow Matsuoka×Mirai Moriyama
松岡正剛×森山未來
- ART EXHIBITION
The title of this exhibition, "Ahead of the Rediscovery," is based on Masayoshi Matsuoka's idea of "Another Real Style" and its practice, "Omi ARS."
Masayoshi Matsuoka saw a different possibility in art and artists in his later years, and Mirai Moriyama approached him as a collaborator. Then, implementing the experience of the collaboration between the two, they try to expand the exhibition.
Masayoshi Matsuoka
Editorial Engineer
Born in Kyoto in 1944. Editor-in-chief of the object magazine 'Yu', director of the Editing Engineering Research Institute, and principal of Isis Editing School. He founded "Editorial Engineering," which connects relationships across research results from multiple fields, from life science to cognitive science, from Japan culture to religious studies, from design to calligraphy culture, and applies its methodology to media creation, system development, and planning and conception of various projects. He is also known as a leading expert in the study of Japan culture and advocates the "Japan method". Based on the concept of "bookware", he also produces many bookshelf spaces based on his own array of knowledge. His main books include "The Editing Engineering of Knowledge", "The Science of Flowers, Birds, Wind and Moon", "Fragile", "Landscape Thought", "The Way of Japan", "The Core of Japan Culture", "The World Was Too Interesting", "Hundred Books Riot", and "It's Good in Another Japan", which describes the activities of Omi ARS, and many others. Passed away in August 2024. The book navigation "Thousand Nights and Thousand Books" on the Internet, which began serialization in 2000, became a life's work of 1,850 books.
Image of the work: Photography: Yuji Hamada, Collection: Omi ARS
Omi ARS official website
https://arscombinatoria.jp/omi
Masayoshi Matsuoka Thousand Nights and a Thousand Books (A Thousand Nights and a Thousand Books Talking about ARS: "Double Vision")
https://1000ya.isis.ne.jp/1811.html
"It's okay in another Japan." Introduction page
https://www.hyakken.co.jp/works/7
Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/hyakken_official/
Mirai Moriyama
Born in 1984 in Hyogo. He learned various genres of dance from the age of 5 and made his stage debut at the age of 15. In 2013, he stayed in Israel for one year as a cultural exchange envoy of the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
, Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company based in European countries.
In search of "physical expression that rises from relational values", he is developing activities in Japan and abroad across domains.
As an actor, he has won many film awards so far. He was in charge of the opening solo performance at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In 2022, he established Artist in Residence KOBE (AiRK) in Kobe City and is involved in its operation. Post-Butoh school.
His recent works include the performance "STILL LIFE" (24-26, choreographer: Alan Lucien Øyen, co-choreography, performance), "Sanbutaro Festival" (24, Forest Art Festival: Okayama, Sunny Country, planning composition, appearance), the special exhibition "1995-2025: 30 Years of Us" (24-25, co-production with Tetsuya Umeda, Hyogo National Museum of Art), and the dance performance "The Magic Flute" (24-25, choreography, Ei Kasai), Kyukaku Ushio performance "Wonderful Coincidence" (Setouchi International Arts Festival 2025, composition, choreography, performance), etc.
The stage performance "Chi -About the Earth's Movement-" is being performed from October 8, 2025.
Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/mirai_moriyama_official/
Seigow Matsuoka
Born in Kyoto in 1944, Seigow Matsuoka served as editor-in-chief of the object magazine Yū, director of the Editorial Engineering Laboratory, and principal of the ISIS Editing School. He founded the field of “Editorial Engineering,” a method that links knowledge across diverse disciplines—ranging from life sciences to cognitive science, from Japanese culture to religious studies, and from design to the culture of calligraphy. This methodology was not only theoretical but also applied to media creation, system development, and the planning and conception of numerous cultural and intellectual projects.
Matsuoka was also widely recognized as a leading scholar of Japanese cultural studies, advancing the idea of “Japan as Method.” He extended his editorial philosophy into spatial design through the concept of “bookware,” producing innovative library spaces that embodied his unique ordering of knowledge.
From 2000, he launched Senya Sensatsu (“Thousand Nights, Thousand Books”), an ambitious online book-navigation series that became his life’s work. Over two decades, it grew to encompass his commentary on 1,850 volumes, forming a vast intellectual landscape for readers across generations.
He passed away in August 2024, leaving a legacy as Japan’s pioneering editorial director and cultural thinker.
Mirai Moriyama
Born in Hyogo in 1984. He began learning various genres of dance at the age of 5 and made his stage debut at the age of 15. In 2013, he stayed in Israel for one year as a cultural envoy for the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and worked in European countries with the Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company as his base.
Seeking "physical expression that arises from relational values," he is active across a range of fields both in Japan and overseas.
As an actor, he has won numerous film awards. He will be performing the opening solo performance at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He will be founding and running Artist in Residence KOBE (AiRK) in Kobe City from 2022. He is a recipient of Hyogo Arts Encouragement Award in 2023 and the Kobe City Culture Award in 2012. He is a post-dance dancer.
Recent major activities include: [Performance] "FORM ULA" (22, planning, directing, and performing), solo performance "Osmosis" (23, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, planning, directing, and performing), "STILL LIFE" (24-26, choreography by Alan Lucien Øyen, co-choreography, and performing), " Sanbutaro Festival" (24, Forest Art Festival Sunny Country Okayama, planning and performing), [Stage] "Lingering Ghosts and Monsters" (21), "Dancing Couple" (25) , [Film] "Shin Kamen Rider", "Yamaonna", "Hokaage" (23), "iai", "The Great Absence", "Bakeneko Anzu-chan" (24), " Paripi Koumei THE MOVIE (25) [Drama] "Paripi Kongming" (23), "Asuka Clinic is Raining Today" (25) [Special Exhibition] "Namuhamudahamu Exhibition ' Kiiki! Haisetsutosi'" (23, Ota City Museum of Art & Library), "KOBE Re:Public Art Project" (23, Kobe City, curation), "1995 ⇄ 2025 Us in Our 30th Years" (24, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)
Masayoshi Matsuoka saw a different possibility in art and artists in his later years, and Mirai Moriyama approached him as a collaborator. Then, implementing the experience of the collaboration between the two, they try to expand the exhibition.
Masayoshi Matsuoka
Editorial Engineer
Born in Kyoto in 1944. Editor-in-chief of the object magazine 'Yu', director of the Editing Engineering Research Institute, and principal of Isis Editing School. He founded "Editorial Engineering," which connects relationships across research results from multiple fields, from life science to cognitive science, from Japan culture to religious studies, from design to calligraphy culture, and applies its methodology to media creation, system development, and planning and conception of various projects. He is also known as a leading expert in the study of Japan culture and advocates the "Japan method". Based on the concept of "bookware", he also produces many bookshelf spaces based on his own array of knowledge. His main books include "The Editing Engineering of Knowledge", "The Science of Flowers, Birds, Wind and Moon", "Fragile", "Landscape Thought", "The Way of Japan", "The Core of Japan Culture", "The World Was Too Interesting", "Hundred Books Riot", and "It's Good in Another Japan", which describes the activities of Omi ARS, and many others. Passed away in August 2024. The book navigation "Thousand Nights and Thousand Books" on the Internet, which began serialization in 2000, became a life's work of 1,850 books.
Image of the work: Photography: Yuji Hamada, Collection: Omi ARS
Omi ARS official website
https://arscombinatoria.jp/omi
Masayoshi Matsuoka Thousand Nights and a Thousand Books (A Thousand Nights and a Thousand Books Talking about ARS: "Double Vision")
https://1000ya.isis.ne.jp/1811.html
"It's okay in another Japan." Introduction page
https://www.hyakken.co.jp/works/7
Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/hyakken_official/
Mirai Moriyama
Born in 1984 in Hyogo. He learned various genres of dance from the age of 5 and made his stage debut at the age of 15. In 2013, he stayed in Israel for one year as a cultural exchange envoy of the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
, Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company based in European countries.
In search of "physical expression that rises from relational values", he is developing activities in Japan and abroad across domains.
As an actor, he has won many film awards so far. He was in charge of the opening solo performance at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In 2022, he established Artist in Residence KOBE (AiRK) in Kobe City and is involved in its operation. Post-Butoh school.
His recent works include the performance "STILL LIFE" (24-26, choreographer: Alan Lucien Øyen, co-choreography, performance), "Sanbutaro Festival" (24, Forest Art Festival: Okayama, Sunny Country, planning composition, appearance), the special exhibition "1995-2025: 30 Years of Us" (24-25, co-production with Tetsuya Umeda, Hyogo National Museum of Art), and the dance performance "The Magic Flute" (24-25, choreography, Ei Kasai), Kyukaku Ushio performance "Wonderful Coincidence" (Setouchi International Arts Festival 2025, composition, choreography, performance), etc.
The stage performance "Chi -About the Earth's Movement-" is being performed from October 8, 2025.
Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/mirai_moriyama_official/
Seigow Matsuoka
Born in Kyoto in 1944, Seigow Matsuoka served as editor-in-chief of the object magazine Yū, director of the Editorial Engineering Laboratory, and principal of the ISIS Editing School. He founded the field of “Editorial Engineering,” a method that links knowledge across diverse disciplines—ranging from life sciences to cognitive science, from Japanese culture to religious studies, and from design to the culture of calligraphy. This methodology was not only theoretical but also applied to media creation, system development, and the planning and conception of numerous cultural and intellectual projects.
Matsuoka was also widely recognized as a leading scholar of Japanese cultural studies, advancing the idea of “Japan as Method.” He extended his editorial philosophy into spatial design through the concept of “bookware,” producing innovative library spaces that embodied his unique ordering of knowledge.
From 2000, he launched Senya Sensatsu (“Thousand Nights, Thousand Books”), an ambitious online book-navigation series that became his life’s work. Over two decades, it grew to encompass his commentary on 1,850 volumes, forming a vast intellectual landscape for readers across generations.
He passed away in August 2024, leaving a legacy as Japan’s pioneering editorial director and cultural thinker.
Mirai Moriyama
Born in Hyogo in 1984. He began learning various genres of dance at the age of 5 and made his stage debut at the age of 15. In 2013, he stayed in Israel for one year as a cultural envoy for the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and worked in European countries with the Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company as his base.
Seeking "physical expression that arises from relational values," he is active across a range of fields both in Japan and overseas.
As an actor, he has won numerous film awards. He will be performing the opening solo performance at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He will be founding and running Artist in Residence KOBE (AiRK) in Kobe City from 2022. He is a recipient of Hyogo Arts Encouragement Award in 2023 and the Kobe City Culture Award in 2012. He is a post-dance dancer.
Recent major activities include: [Performance] "FORM ULA" (22, planning, directing, and performing), solo performance "Osmosis" (23, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, planning, directing, and performing), "STILL LIFE" (24-26, choreography by Alan Lucien Øyen, co-choreography, and performing), " Sanbutaro Festival" (24, Forest Art Festival Sunny Country Okayama, planning and performing), [Stage] "Lingering Ghosts and Monsters" (21), "Dancing Couple" (25) , [Film] "Shin Kamen Rider", "Yamaonna", "Hokaage" (23), "iai", "The Great Absence", "Bakeneko Anzu-chan" (24), " Paripi Koumei THE MOVIE (25) [Drama] "Paripi Kongming" (23), "Asuka Clinic is Raining Today" (25) [Special Exhibition] "Namuhamudahamu Exhibition ' Kiiki! Haisetsutosi'" (23, Ota City Museum of Art & Library), "KOBE Re:Public Art Project" (23, Kobe City, curation), "1995 ⇄ 2025 Us in Our 30th Years" (24, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)