野口哲哉 Tetsuya NOGUCHI

「Target Marks 1580」94.0cm（Left）

「Target Marks 1610」96.0cm（Right）

Mixed media　2009

Exhibited: “MEDICINE AND ART” Mori Art Museum

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Crafts statues of warriors by his own hand, from molding the polymer clay to painting, clothing, and equipping the figures.

In addition to expressing the aging of a samurai, this work validates the effectiveness from a psychiatric perspective of Japanese armor and helmets in the fight against death experienced during war.

Noguchi also made new figures for this exhibition.

The time from the Warring States period to the Azuchi-Momoyama period saw major changes for Japanese armor.

The figures depict a youth in his thirties wearing armor at the Warring States period and how the same man looked thirty years later.

The influx of Western culture towards the beginning of the Azuchi-Momoyama period dramatically changed circumstances in Japan.

Armor also evolved I accordance with changes in the materials imported and in the methods of fighting.

By putting on armor in non-standard shapes and boldly decorated with a coat of arms and colors, samurai hoped to have a strong impact on both friend and foe as well as lift their own spirits.

In addition to protecting one’s body, armor doubled as an effective psychological support that relieved the warrior’s fear of misery and

death.

Born in 1980 in Takamatsu, Kagawa prefecture, Japan, and now lives in Kanagawa prefecture.

(Mami Hirose, Mori Art Museum Project Manager) Mori Art Museum “MEDICINE AND ART” Heibonsya 2009

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