HAMAMOTO KANADE

It is said that this area may have been named “Yoyogi” because there once stood a great fir tree. The tree was so tall that one could see all of Edo from its top, but over time, it withered away. At another time, this place was a military training ground where Japan’s first test flight was conducted.
When the Washington Heights was in existence, Yoyogi Park was enclosed by fences. Even though the fence separated the inside from the outside, the sunlight fell equally on both sides.
I have collected old photographs taken around this area and used sunlight to expose them into blueprints. Today, Yoyogi Park sits in the middle of a concrete jungle. And yet, when I look up, the sky stretches endlessly before me. The same sunlight shines as it once did.

Archival Photos Supplied by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association
Source: The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan *Processed Aerial Photographs