This week marks the annual Obon (Bon) festival in Japan, a celebration which commemorates and honors deceased ancestors. Isamu Noguchi’s ‘Awa Odori’ is inspired by this festival and the Awa Odori dance, which takes place each year in Tokushima, Japan, located to the south of Noguchi’s studio in Mure. “For three nights in the middle of August the dance flows down the streets, wave after wave of the most spectacular dancers of the Bon Festival. The rims of their straw hats tied beneath their chins
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