”Touching the Intangible”,an exhibition commemorating the 40 years of the POLA Foundation for the Promotion of Traditional Japanese Culture.

The “Touching the Intangible” exhibition, held for the first time to commemorate the 40 years since the inception of the POLA Foundation for the Promotion of Traditional Japanese Culture, starts by taking apart our conventional view of traditional Japanese culture, dividing it into three categories: “traditional performing arts”, “traditional craftsmanship” and “folk entertainment”. It then reconstructs it from a design perspective, all the while drawing inspiration from the thinker Rudolph Steiner’s“twelve senses” and appealing to our present-day senses of beauty, wonder and familiarity.