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Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Book Art launched during Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2009 is a museum of a picture book whose story spreads out in the entire space of the closed school building, what we named “the Walk-in-Palette”. The wooden school building of the former Sanada Elementary School located in the center of the Hachi village in Tokamachi-city, Niigata stands as the stage of the Museum of Picture Book Art. Various lives such as children who used to come to the school and Toperatoto who eats laughter and chattering have turned into artworks and jump about in the school building. In the schoolyard, Shizuka, the goat, born from the picture book, and her baby goats and the diverse range of small creatures live in the biotope created in the abandoned rice field. Please enjoy the spectacular art space of Tashima Seizo whose picture book story spreads out over the entire village in a rich satoyama.

Signs of Life: The Story of Towa and Toto