| schema:description 2 | "Masayuki Nagare (1923–2018), born in Nagasaki Prefecture, learned Shintoism and Bushido (the code of the samurai) from his father and learned to make Japanese swords in Kyoto. After World War II, he began stone carving, and based mainly in Aji Town, Kagawa Prefecture, he embarked on wide-ranging activities, including monument-making in Japan and elsewhere, garden-making and environmental design. The work pictured here is a half-size reproduction of a monument with the same name which was installed at the World Trade Center in New York in 1975 but had to be dismantled following the September 11 attacks. It was created to serve as a fortress of peace to protect Hokkaido....(more)" |
