Pop Over Musashino vol.2

The Landscape of Emotion re-examines the expressive fields of tanka and illustration through a shared focus on emotion. The exhibition space is designed as a single, unfolding story, allowing visitors to trace how emotions arise, shift, and transform into words or images.

How emotions take shape
Exploring the universality of feeling across time

A newly created large-scale work by Mika Pikazo is presented alongside the words of early modern tanka poets such as Yosano Akiko and Ishikawa Takuboku, inviting visitors to explore the timeless resonance of human feeling across different eras. The exhibition also places early modern tanka and contemporary tanka in conversation. This setting highlights the universality of emotion across eras and how certain feelings endure beyond their time. Rather than simply reading the poems, visitors can walk through the space and physically experience the world of tanka.

Installations that shift with each step
Encounters that stir emotion

In a space where works by illustrators and tanka poets are brought together, the exhibition design encourages visitors to focus on the emotions held within each piece.
Some installations blur the boundary between visitor and artwork, for example, mirror-like elements that make emotional fluctuations visible. Other installations separate words from images to reveal the “wordless” emotions that lie beneath the creator’s intention.
As visitors navigate the exhibition, they can embark on a journey shaped by their own perceptions, memories, and emotional responses.