Premier numéro No,1
Sans-façon
JYXYER Co., Ltd.
CONTENTS issuu vol.1 06 Autumn Hakone 08 Arts in Hakone area 10 Hakone Open Air Museum 12 Pola Museum of Art 14 Hakone Glass no Mori Venetian Glass Museum 16 Hakone Museum of Art 22 Interview Yukie Someya - 2019-20 ZENJIRO tea package designer 24 History of Hakone 28 People in Hakone - Shin Kaneko 36 Editorial notes
AUTUMN FOR ART
“Hakone Sans-façon” is a digital magazine for discovering the unknown attractions of Hakone Mountain Resort and introducing France to the people of Europe. After the previous preparation volume (vol.0), we will issue full-scale magazine from this volume (vol.1). Last time, we introduced the outline and highlights of Hakone. Hakone has many sightseeing spots for food, museums, hot springs, etc., and I can't tell you much. Therefore, this time we will focus on “art” and explore the charm of Hakone. Japan has a history of protecting and developing a unique culture, and these
are closely related to the four seasons we have cherished since ancient times. Spring when sakura cherry blossoms bloom, summer when cicadas cry, autumn when pampas grasses shake, and snowy winter. Japanese live with these seasons and have enjoyed the blessings of nature. The Japanese season will soon be autumn. At the same time that autumn is the harvest season, it has been popularly called “Autumn of Arts� because many art exhibitions are held in various places. We would like you to visit the museums in Hakone, a rare place in the world where many museums gather.
Pampas Grass A panoramic view of Susuki (Japanese pampas) grassland is recommended in Hakone during autumn. Located in Sengokuhara area in the middle of the Hakone mountains, 640m above sea level. The golden grass of the Susuki grass
Do you know Sankin-kĹ?tai, the
will heal many people, not only for tourists, but also as a stroll
by a daimyo in Edo? In 1636
area for locals. This area was once a vast wilderness with no
Tokugawa Iemitsu founded this s
trees, and people named it Sengokuhara in the hope that it
(feudal lords) all over Japan, i
would be able to harvest thousands of grains after reclaiming
system by the Tokugawa family.
land from wilderness. “Sengoku� refers 1000"koku". The "koku"
stay in Edo (Tokyo) for a year
was the unit used to measure rice that has been used in the
Daimyo in Western Japan could
past, and one "koku" refers to the amount of rice consumed by
Hakone. Therefore, at that tim
one person per year. So, Sengoku means a very large place
time here in Hakone mountains.
where can feed 1,000 people. However, because of the
every year, the Daimyo's process
volcanic ash soil and wetlands, people gave up rice farming
procession is composed of 17
and instead raised the Susuki grass that was the material for
slowly parades the old Tokaid
roofs at that time. An important source of the lives of people in
costumes recreate the gorgeous
the past is now being enjoyed by many as a beautiful
tourists can enjoy up close, it i
landscape.
tourists to visit.
Autumn foliage
Daimyo procession system of alternate attendance
6, the third generation Shogun
system and forced it to Daimyos
in order to establish a control The Daimyos were obligated to to prevent the rebellion. Most
The highlight for autumn is red leaves. In November of the
d not go to Edo without passing
plateau resort Hakone, the autumn leaves and azalea trees
me, many Daimyos had to pass
begin to color from near the Lake Ashinoko located near the top
. And today, on November 3rd
of mountains, and the autumn leaves area gradually spreads to
ssion festival is held. The Daimyo
Sengokuhara, Gora and Kowakudani halfway up the
70 constituting members and
mountains. There are many sightseeing spots for autumn leaves
do Main Street. Various classic
in Hakone, such as Owakudani, Choanji, Hayakawa Canyon
s shifts in the Edo period. Since
Bridge and Hakone Museum of Art. We would like to show you
is a big event for many foreign
the scenery of Hakone, where nature is abundant, dyed in red and yellow.
Art museum As mentioned in the previous volume, Hakone is world-famous as the plateau resort where many art museums gather. Some tourists from overseas may wonder why there are so many museums. There are various hypothesizes, but as one; The Hakone area has been developed as a summer resort for the past 150 years. Inhabitants of the foreign residence ward avoided hot and humid summer of Japan and went to Hakone for summering. After that, business leaders and politicians of Japan followed their custom. In this way, soon after the opening of Japan, Hakone became a plateau resort area where Europeans and wealthy people with a high sense of aesthetics and beauty of art visit. Nowadays, for this reason, people admire that “the area of Hakone itself is like a museum� .� We would like to introduce some of the most famous museums in Hakone.
THE HAKONE OPEN-AIR MUSEUM
箱 根 彫 刻 の 森 美 術 館
The Hakone Open-Air Museum is the first open-air museum in Japan with a 50-year history that opened in 1969, and about 120 works by famous sculptors from around the world are on permanent display in a vast 70,000 m² garden. Since 2012, the world-famous fashion designer Hanae Mori has been serving as the director. As an example, the Picasso Pavilion, which opened in 1984, has been exhibiting the world's largest collection of 319 works, and the indoor exhibition hall is hosting various events, such as international exhibitions and workshops where children can learn and interact with art. There is also a natural hot spring footbath in the museum, and it is a recommended museum for adults and children to spend a relaxing time throughout the year. If you want to relax by seeing art works in the dynamic nature, why not come here and enjoy it?
Hakone Open Air Museum 1121 Ninodaira, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa http://www.hakone-oam.or.jp <Opening hours> 9: 00-17: 00 Open all year round <Fee> Adult 1600 yen / children fee and group fee are available
Pola Museum of Art ポ ー ラ 美 術 館
The Pola Museum of Art was built in 2002 to display artworks collected by Tsuneji Suzuki, the second generation of Pola cosmetics. His current collection includes Western art collections, paintings by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso and other world artists. Furthermore, Japanese and Western paintings, prints, sculptures, Oriental ceramics, Japanese modern ceramics, glass crafts, and makeup tools are exhibited. In addition to permanent exhibitions, the interior is filled with glass with a lot of transparency, and it also holds special exhibitions, lectures, and gallery talks. Visitors will be healed by the light from the huge window, the greenery of the surrounding forest and numerous masterpieces. After appreciating the arts, we recommend you to walk on the promenade in the park. You can enjoy a part of beautiful Fuji Hakone Izu National Park.
Pola Museum of Art 1285 Kodsukayama, Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa https://www.polamuseum.or.jp/ <Opening hours> 9: 00-17: 00 Open all year round <Fee> Adult 1800 yen / children fee and group fee are available
Hakone Glass no Mori Venetian Glass Museum 箱 根 ガ ラ ス の 森 美 術 館
The Hakone Venetian Glass Museum opened in 1996 and is Japan's first museum dedicated to Venetian glass. In addition to the Venetian glass collections that attracted the hearts of European nobilities from the 15th to 19th centuries, the museum exhibits innovative modern glass artworks of outstanding artists. The visitors can enjoy these artworks very close. There is also a workshop for experiencing the fusion technique that melts and joins the glass, as well as special exhibitions such as the Venetian Glass Sculpture Exhibition by Picasso and Chagall. The visitors can enjoy many events. The live performance events by Italian singers using glass instruments, workshop of sandblasting techniques that spray sand and carve patterns etc.
Hakone Glass no Mori Venetian Glass Museum 940-48 Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa http://hakone-garasunomori.jp <Opening hours> 10: 00-17: 30 Open all year round <Fee> Adult 1500 yen / children fee and group fee are available
HAKONE MUSEUM OF ART
箱 根 美 術 館
The Hakone Museum of Art is the oldest museum in Hakone, opened in 1952, and exhibits mainly ceramics collected by Mokichi Okada. The potteries and Haniwa clay images of the Jomon period which ended in 300 BC are exhibited, and these are designated as important cultural properties of the country. And other precious ceramics from the ancient times of Japan, such as the Muromachi period and the Azuchi Momoyama period are also displayed, visitors can learn about Japanese history. The outstanding point of this museum is the Japanese style garden. The garden area of about 100,000 m² in Hakone Gora area includes about 130 types of moss and 200 Momiji red leaves trees, and it has separately “moss garden” , “Mino road” and “bamboo garden” . These are must-see beautiful figures. Especially in November, it is a famous highlight for the colorful autumn leaves in the garden. The Japanese garden seen from the tea room attracts tourists from all over the world. You can enjoy seasonal sweets and green tea while looking at the landscape of the moss garden.
The Hakone Museum of Art 1300 Gora, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa http://www.moaart.or.jp/hakone/ <Opening hours> 9:30-16:30 Closed day: Thursday and New Year's holidays <Fee> Adult 900 yen / children fee and group fee are available
As you can see, there are many attractive museums in Hakone such as painting, sculpture, glass and ceramics. In addition to the museums introduced in this volume, we would like to introduce you to the unique museums where you can feel free to touch arts. There are a lot of museums and exhibition facilities in Hakone, such as those operated by individual artists and public history museums. Most of the art museums have restaurants, so why not take a break during a walk?
OKADA MUSEUM OF ART https://www.okada-museum.com Narukawa Art Museum http://www.narukawamuseum.co.jp The Little Prince Museum http://www.tbs.co.jp/l-prince/ Hakone Missen Antique Museum http://www.hakone-meissen.com Lalique Museum Hakone http://www.lalique-museum.com Hakone Museum of Photography http://www.hmop.com DOLL HOUSE MUSEUM HAKONE http://hakonedollhouse.jp HONMA YOSEGI MUSEUM http://www.yoseki-honma.com HAKONE EKIDEN MUSEUM http://www.hakoneekidenmuseum.jp
tcha-tcha http://zenjiro.jp
SPECIAL INTERVIEW - ZENJIRO DESIGN AWARD 2019 Package designer, Ms. Yumie SOMEYA (Japan)
The JYXYER Group opens the door to new designers to change our unique cubic package design every year. We interviewed Ms. Yumie Someya, who won the best award for the 2019-20 package. This new package will be available after October 2019.
Introduction After graduating from a design school in Japan, Yumie SOMEYA has worked for a design company with a focus on promotional item works since 2016. Since 2019, she has been working as a freelancer and is raising her baby. Her clients’ requests are various, but her works are mainly sales promotions and graphic design. “ZENJIRO and tcha-tcha” are the representative works as she has just started working as a freelancer.
"When I have a fun time with my family, curiously, my works go well.", she says. "Since I work while raising my baby at home, I value my time with my family. During working, my baby often plays with the keyboard of my PC or doodles on paper, my baby often plays with the keyboard of my PC or doodles on paper."
designer Yumie Someya
https://yumie-someya.jimdosite.com Yumie can also receive offers from Europe, Japanese or English language are available.
About design for ZENJIRO & tcha-tcha “I designed it to incorporate Japanese expressions into European expressions without any sense of incongruity. Therefore, I used a traditional Japanese pattern. For “ZENJIRO” 's “cloisonné “pattern, which means represents ties and harmony, is simple and gorgeous as a pattern, so I think it will be familiar to Europeans. For “tcha-tcha” , “San-kuzushi “pattern that expresses stone pavement, which was used on kimono and yukata is a simple and familiar pop pattern, so I think it will be playful. There are many wonderful patterns that have been handed down in Japan as well as in every country in the world. There are many things that are easy to incorporate into everyday life, such as handkerchiefs and fashion accessories, so customers of this product can easily incorporate traditional Japanese patterns into their daily lives. It is very interesting to know its origin and meaning, so I would be very happy to share this idea.”
CHIMOTO – Yumoto Honpo Many tourists enjoy shopping in the shopping street when they get off Hakone Yumoto Station, the entrance to Hakone. "Chimoto" is located on the most mountain side of the station square and is a popular Japanese confectionery shop that is crowded with shoppers as soon as it opens at 9am. Most of customers are wanting to buy “Yumochi” . Representative sweets of Hakone, which is made from kneaded soft rice flour for dumplings made by glutinous rice of Japan, cut into finely chopped "Yokan - a sweet beans jelly" , and scented with "Yuzu". Its softness is the smoothness reminiscent of skin that has been soaked in hot spring water. It is also selected as a designated confectionery in Kanagawa Prefecture.
The main ingredient for "Yumochi" is "Shiratama flour (rice flour for dumplings)". Shiratama flour is made by finely pulverizing glutinous rice called “water-drawing” and drying the finely crushed rice while adding moisture and exposing it many times. Its glutinous rice is mainly produced in Chiba prefecture. The point of good taste is moderate adjustment of the stiffness and moisture. This greatly changes the taste. It's no exaggeration to say that the delicate manufacturing process is artistic. "Mochi (glutinous rice)" is a traditional food that can be preserved and eaten for celebrations such as New Year's, but glutinous rice is used for both Japanese sweets and Shiratama flour. Until about five years ago, "mochi" was not popular with foreigners. Recently, however, Japanese-style Mochi sweets are very popular among foreigners living in Japan.
湯もち -Yumochi-
Commitment to Chimoto Japanese sweets Japanese sweets are vegetable cakes. Japanese sweets are made from only beans, sugar, rice, agar, chestnuts and green tea, all from the earth and the sea. Therefore, the life of natural blessing can be called “expiration date” . 八里 -Hachiri-
Chimoto also manufactures all domestic ingredients by hand. For example, brown sugar is from Hateruma Island in the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa Prefecture. Brown sugar is completely different in taste just because it was made on the neighboring island. Also, the taste changes depending on the year, especially depending on how many times the typhoon has come. This is because the sugar cane in the fields rises in tide due to the strong winds and the seawater. わらび餅 -Warabi Mochi-
When you come to Hakone, be sure to enjoy the special Japanese sweets. HACHIRI is a "Monaka" wafers filled with "Nerian (Azuki bean jam)". "Warabi-mochi" is kneaded "Warabi-ko (bracken flour)" and wrapped "Koshi-an", and is sprinkled with "Kinako" made of domestic soybeans.
CHIMOTO – Yumoto Honpo 690 Yumoto, Hakonemachi, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa 250-0311 TEL：0460-85-5632 OPEN：9:00 ～ 17:00 http://www.yumochi.com/
箱根の歴史 The history of Hakone Vol.2
武士の時代
Around the 12th century, when the Kamakura Shogunate ( 鎌倉幕府 ) began to rule the country by depriving the power of the Imperial Court, Japan was importing the latest knowledge and technology from China. Based on many technologies imported at this time, original Japanese culture was formed after that. After studying abroad China in 1199, monk Eisai ( 栄 西 ) started to create a new Zen sect ( 禅 宗 ), the Rinzai sect ( 臨 済 宗 ), and with the support of the Kamakura Shogunate, created new Zen temples throughout Japan as Kamakura Buddhism. With reference the effective trade that China exported tea to northern horse-riding nomadic people and imported military horses, monk Eisai ( 栄西 ) expanded the production of green tea ( 緑茶 ) and the production of mulberry trees ( 桑 ), which are raw materials for raw silk, throughout the country, and the Shogunate sponsored his projects positively. Green tea has a northern limit of production, but mulberry trees can be grown their habitat up to the Tohoku region. Zen-shu ( 禅 宗 ) was a Buddhism for intellectual people and closely linked to green tea drinking.
KATANA Where there is the Samurai Shogunate and its army corps, there is mass demand for weapons was born. A master sword craft group called Soshu-den ( 相 州 伝 ) was born in Sagami ( 相
模 ) area, where is Kanagawa
prefecture nowadays. This area is on the west side of Tokyo, ranging from Kamakura（鎌 minutes by car, to Odawara,（小
田
倉）, which is 30 原）which is 60
minutes by car. The Kamakura Shogunate was placed around 1250, and many katana swords ( 日本刀 ) were produced. As Iron, sand, clay, pine, charcoal, and clean water are necessary for the production of Japanese swords, the location of the base of the mountain is best location for swords production. Therefore, many swords craftsmen were based in Odawara ( 小 田 原 ), which was the base of Hakone's mountain. Ceramics production also developed in Japan, but it was impossible to raise the temperature of the furnace until it melted the iron, and as a technology to compensate for it, the forging technology of the Japanese sword developed.
People in Hakone Vol.2 In “People in Hakone” , we would like to share with you the insights of the people living or working in Hakone by interviewing them, in order to explore the depth of the region from inside.
EXPLORE HAKONE
Shin KANEKKO
Hakone is a rare place where vario
ous authentic things are gathered.
There are many authentic museums right next to nature. Hakone is a great place to relax. There is no doubt that Onshi Park was the best relaxation place because it was a villa of the emperor.
RenĂŠ Lalique's Museum, which has been active in both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco eras, the Pola Museum displaying the works of Monet, Renoir, Picasso and Leonard Fujita, and the Okada Museum of Art displaying Japanese art. There is also a Japanese traditional craft Yosegi marquetry Kaikan. These are scattered next to nature.
Link to the parquet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvOMHoLRBY&feature=youtu.b
Hakone is a place where you can face people and face yourself.
The head of the Amazake Chaya, which has been in its 13th generation since the Edo period, has been offering travelers rest with amazake and Japanese sweets for over 300 years. At Daijozan Saijoji, you can face yourself through Zazen.
I am happy to be able to help customers through this w Shin is thinking of expanding the service not only to Hakone but also to the surrounding area. Daijozan Saijoji temple for Zazen meditation, and the Odawara castle, Mishima- Numazu area and Mt. Fuji. Because these area can be reached in 30 minutes or 1 hour from Hakone, and it is not far from foreigners.
work to “precious memories once in a lifetime” EXPLORE HAKONE
Shin KANEKKO / CEO Born in Hakone. After finishing secondary education at Colmar, France, he graduated a US university. After working for one of the largest retail companies in Japan, he started a guide in Hakone in 2011. Shin's mother is actress Mie HAMA. Appeared as the first Japanese bond girl in the fifth in the James Bond series “You Only Live Twice” starring Sean Connery. Currently, her old private house is also used as event spaces. shin@explore-hakone.com https://explore-hakone.com/video/
Editorial Note
This ‹‹Hakone, Sans-façon›› is the first volume following the previous preliminary volume as of July 2019. This time, we collected information about Hakone's museums and presented the arts. We hope that many people around the world, including French, will experience one of the typical reasons for your visit to Hakone. In the editorial process, even our Japanese editorial staffs were surprised to learn that many kinds of artworks are being exhibited at various museums in Hakone. One hour away from Tokyo, here Hakone is a place where the spirits of many artists are gathered together in rich natures. In addition, we believe that Hakone's value is that allows you to spend a relaxing time by touching the artworks slowly while feeling passions of the artists. In the next issue, we will feature the history of the region about 100 km from Tokyo to Hakone. This includes why Hakone has grown into a leading resort in Japan. We sincerely hope your deep understanding of Japan by this ‹‹Hakone, Sans-façon››.
Sans-façon Premier numéro No,1
Chief Editor:Michio JIBIKI Deputy Editor:Yuuya S ZONE Translator : Tasnime Akbaraly Staff:Eri MURAKAWA Cooperator:HAKONE JAPAN https://hakone-japan.com/ Publisher:JYXYER Co., Ltd.