The world is in a dizzying state of change, as if in a hurry to get on with life. Tokyo is a city equipped with such functions, where the development of

civilization has brought a rich lifestyle, yet it continues to expand further.

In the midst of all this, I feel that ‘culture’ is being left behind.

No, pedantic ‘engagement with traditional culture’ is partly taking place.

However, as a rare artist once asked the Japanese people and lit a fire in their hearts, ‘No other nation has received the blessing of tradition so much

as the Japanese’ but has lost sight of it in their daily lives’, it would be good if ‘culture’ and ‘civilization’ were closer.

People enjoy the wisdom that has been built up from the past and accumulated in the present, and in their daily lives, they devise and create new

worlds. AGUNÌTE was born out of the desire to express such a situation in a ‘Japanese’ context.

The present is the eternal now, pregnant with both past and future.

From the made to the made.

As an alternative to Japanese culture, AGUNÌTE's existence and wish is to become a ‘place’ where this contradictory self-identity is nurtured.