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teamLab, “Walk, Walk, Walk,” Moso Bamboo Forest, 2021, Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi, Voices: Yutaka Fukuoka, Yumiko Tanaka © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

Interactive Projections Transform Historic Japanese Garden Into a Candy-Colored Kaleidoscope

Kairakuen is referred to as one of the “Three Great Gardens of Japan,” alongside Kenrokuen Garden in Kanazawa and Korakuen Garden in Okayama. Teamlab has installed several interactive digital works across the park's extensive grounds, utilizing an 800-year-old giant tree, 1,500 plum trees, a bamboo grove, pine trees, azaleas, and even a fallen tree. These works transform natural sites—which have been around since the end of the Edo Period in 1842—through projections of light, moving illustrations, and sound.

teamLab, “Ever Blossoming Life Tree,” Giant Taro Cedar, 2021, Digitized Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

teamLab, “Concrete and Abstract,” Between Yin and Yang, 2021, Interactive Digital Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

teamLab, “Enso in the Natural Spring,” Togyokusen, 2021, Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

teamLab, “Resonating Pine and Azalea,” 2021, Interactive Digitized Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery