A sculpture for the entrance of a restaurant in Agora Kanazawa hotel. With their concept "garden of tea-ceremony house" in mind, we drew our inspiration from Hakusan (Mt. Haku) which holds key spring for pure water used in traditional tea ceremonies. Hakusan stands tall across three prefectures- Ishikawa, Fukui, and Gifu, and it has always been respected and protected as the holy ground of sacred mountain worship. For people in Kanazawa, Hakusan is also a shrine of gods that provides the Water of life.
The work expresses ” the spring rain of joy falling on Hakusan” and its moistured shiny surface of the mountain. Actual terrain data that shows the height difference of the mountain was used to shape this sculpture and 3,136 Hanasaka pottery stones was used with gold glazing for decoration.