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2020/09/08Vol.058- The Generation Gap between Mr. Mende and Me
2020/09/04World Lighting Journey Review
2020/09/04Night Watching Tour in Oouchijuku
2020/09/04Global Lighting Survey: Tsukuda/ Tsukishima, Tokyo
2020/09/04Global Lighting Survey: Sydney, Australia
2020/09/04Remote Salon Vol.02 English Ver.
2020/09/04Vol.62 Round Table Discussion, Review on Ikebukuro
2020/09/04Vol.65 Night Walk: Ikebukuro
2020/09/03Newsletter Vol.102
2020/08/25Newsletter Vol.103

Other Activity

World Lighting Journey Review

World Lighting Journey 2019 Annual Report, A chief interview 2020.02.26　　Erina Hosono We interviewed Shomei Tanteidan Leader Mr. Mende this year again as an annual round up to our weekly World Lighting Journey postings in 2019 to the Shome…

Nightscape Watching Tour

Night Watching Tour in Oouchijuku

Night Watching Tour：Oouchijuku Let’s go look at lights on the snow-scape! 2020.02.08- 2020.02.09　Namiko Watanabe + Noriko Higashi In search for a festival of lights in Japan, we headed to the Winter festival at Oouchijuku. Our 19 members he…

Global Research

Global Lighting Survey: Tsukuda/ Tsukishima, Tokyo

Tokyo Survey: Tsukuda / Tsukishima 2019.11.18　　Kyoko Takubo+Yuichi Anzai+Namiko Watanabe An overview of Tsukishima. In contrast to the bright large city buildings, the small alleys and storefronts don’t leak much light Tsukuda is an fisherm…

Coffee Break

Vol.058- The Generation Gap between Mr. Mende and Me

Interviewer: Namiko Watanabe Watanabe：In terms of human interaction, I would like to talk about the generation gap between you and me, today. You and I have a lot in common and sometimes I even feel that our sense of value is similar. Mende…

Mende's Note

Vol.82 – Learning Lighting Design from Cinematography Part 2 “Tokyo Story”

In the warm family picture painted by Yasujiro Ozu there are two types of natural light; glaring, bright sunlight and the incandescent lamp, symbolic of a cozy family. In the film, daytime scenes always seem very carefully calcu…

Mende's Note

Vol.81 – Learning Lighting Design from Cinematography Part 1 “Diva”

I ran across a manuscript from a series published in Housing Magazine 25 years ago. There was no magazine title or published date, but for the series titled “From Screen/ I want to copy this interior design!” I used to analyze…