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灯す
Light a wish
Write it with a brush pen. Fold it twice. Let the river take it from there. No one reads it — not even us.
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Prologue / 物語
Chapter one — The crossing
Once, every summer
When the last
light falls,
the river remembers.
For three nights each summer, a forgotten water shrine on the Kamo river opens its gates to the other side. Paper lanterns carry the wishes of strangers. The water carries everything else. A white fox keeps the gate; she has been waiting longer than the shrine.
Yūgen animates that crossing. A ninety-minute walk through hand-drawn worlds, generative light, and a live score performed on koto, field recordings and the river itself. There is no map. The lanterns know the way.
“We do not make a spectacle of the night.— Aiko Mori, creative director
We simply make room for it.”
1,000+Hand-painted lanterns
90minA single journey
03nightsAnd then, gone
01wishYours to leave behind