YOSHITAKA NANJO
STATEMENT
Born in Kagawa, 1977. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2002.
Yoshitaka Nanjo creates landscape paintings using actual soil based on his field-work.
He has been working on many subjects based on Japanese people’s religious views, manners and landscape views that came from their travels or journeys such as ‘Isemoude’(travel culture of Shinto and Edo period), ‘Edo five routes’, ‘Mt.Fuji worship’, ‘Tokyo Bay’(‘Edo-mae’ in front of Edo bay=Tokyo bay culture), ‘Kumano Kodo’(animism) and ‘Mountain Worship’.
