iTokyo Photographic Art MuseumEbisu Garden Place, Meguro
Senses Replicated: Daido Moriyama (Tokyo Smart Culture Project)
This exhibition has ended.
About 140 works by Daido Moriyama paired with digital reinterpretations by Nara Women's University engineering students, exploring AI and technology's extension of his photographic legacy.
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Next to Moriyama's 1982 Light and Shadow pictures, the students have laid out prints, frames and magnifying loupes. You lean in with a loupe, which is the point: the room is their attempt to rebuild what Moriyama saw and felt in his body while he was shooting.
About 140 gelatin silver prints from the museum's own Moriyama holdings fill the basement gallery, picked and arranged by engineering students from Nara Women's University. It tours from a 2025 show they made in Nara, with more Tokyo prints added: Poster (Nakano) from the Tokyo series, Dog of Misawa (1971), and street titles like Shinjuku, Aoyama and Tachikawa. Copy/Scatter splits photographs across several surfaces to show a picture being printed, copied and used up.
No critic has reviewed it yet. Part of the show is online: a 3D city model on the ToMuCo site drops you onto the spots he shot. Entry is free, it's on B1F, Thursday and Friday run to 20:00, and it closes 18 October.
Look for
The Light and Shadow loupe installation
Look for the 1982 Light and Shadow pictures set out with frames and magnifying loupes, built to recreate how Moriyama saw while shooting.
Copy/Scatter
A three-dimensional piece that pastes photographs across several surfaces, tracing how one image gets printed, copied and consumed.
The World of DAIDO MORIYAMA shown by AI
Image generation imagines what lay outside his frames, where his subjects came from and where they went next.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want a curator's Moriyama: students picked and arranged every print here.
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- Tokyo Photographic Art MuseumYuya Tamai / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Marimekko: Art of Printmaking — Beauty, Dream, LoveCourtesy of Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
- The Beauty of Coolness: Edo-Tokyo Museum Glass Craft CollectionCourtesy of Edo-Tokyo Museum
- Suikoden: The Water Margin, Outlaws of the MarshCourtesy of Tokyo Station Gallery
- Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art MuseumKakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0