In April 2018 Masuda Yoriyasu,1 director of Imadate Art Field, walked the corridors of Imadate Art Hall in Echizen, Japan, surveying the myriad installations that artists had assembled over the course of two weeks. The 2018 iteration of the "Imadate Exhibition of Contemporary Paper Art" was a special one, coinciding with the one-thousand-three-hundredth anniversary of the annual festival to the papermaking goddess. Throughout the papermaking village, papermakers were setting up their wares in the town square, homes were prepping rice balls and tea for soon-to-be-weary mikoshi carriers,2 and the shrine was bustling with community volunteers and media.
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