My home for the last month at the Tokyo Wonder Site Residency.
I spent much of my time at the Tokyo Wonder Site Residency exploring
the streets where rivers and other types of waterways existed once. These areas
are called 暗渠、”ankyo” in Japanese. Many of them became promenades,
some are used as sewage lines while others were just covered and water
eventually dried out. My research at the TWS was to study the buried rivers in Tokyo.
Almost everyday, I put on my hiking shoes and headed out to explore these
“ankyo” streets.
I became a city walker or "散歩人"in Japanese
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| Harajuku, Tokyo (Shibuyagawa/Shibuya River) |
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| Nishi Shinjuku, Tokyo (Izumigawa/Izumi River) |
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| Nishi Shinjuku, Tokyo (Izumigawa/Izumi River) |
See more photos from my "ankyo" walk on
Instagram.
I spent much of my time at the Tokyo Wonder Site Residency exploring
the streets where rivers and other types of waterways existed once. These areas
are called 暗渠、”ankyo” in Japanese. Many of them became promenades,
some are used as sewage lines while others were just covered and water
eventually dried out. My research at the TWS was to study the buried rivers in Tokyo.
Almost everyday, I put on my hiking shoes and headed out to explore these
“ankyo” streets.
