![]() A keen collaborator, Mori worked with other artisans, including a glassmaker who helped him create a spectacular glass coffin. Mori dabbled with the use of diamonds in this show with one memorable piece where he sculpted a leopard almost entirely from Swarovski crystals. The exhibition also borrowed some of Warhol’s modern pop iconography using images of Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson. The 2014 “Kingdom” exhibit focused on his deep love of animals, something he’s carried since childhood when he was crazy for crocodiles and dinosaurs. In addition to his famous grandmother and sister, Mori’s father was a player in Andy Warhol’s New York scene and is noted for bringing the seminal magazine Studio Voice to Japan. And his love of art and design is unsurprising considering his family’s creative tendencies. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, he’s lived a fairly nomadic life moving between Tokyo and the U.S. He’s the grandson of legendary Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori and his sister is the TV talent Izumi Mori. He first showed there in 2014 with his “Kingdom” exhibition and, since then, has had three large scale solo shows at the Sezon Art Gallery in Jingumae, Shibuya ward. Several exhibitions and events running concurrently in these spaces, which boast impressive views of Shibuya below.Īrtist and fashion designer Ben Mori is no stranger to Hikarie. Many visitors, however, aren’t familiar with the art spaces located on the building’s 8th floor. Several floors are dedicated to the latest fashion and food trends and, like most new hotspots in Tokyo, is crowded from dawn ’til dusk. Frost Tsuji Architects designed the overall restaurant and courtyard, working with Len Brackett to create the izakaya façade and interior carpentry.The gigantic Hikarie complex in Shibuya is, for most, a retail and foodie paradise. The Building is a complete restoration of two existing structures: one a 1906 earthquake cottage, the other a 75 year old mechanics’ garage. The bar is a single slab of hinoki cedar that separates guests from the open kitchen. He made the interior booths from 100-year-old Redwood wine casks, and used the iron-rich red soil from Sylvan’s childhood home in Nevada City for the mud walls. Sylvan’s father ( East Wind, Inc.), who apprenticed as a temple carpenter in Kyoto, built the space using post and beam construction and hand-planed wood. We make our own tofu, umeshu, umeboshi and other fresh pickles. Our Wasabi root is grown in Half Moon Bay and ground on a sharkskin board. Our udon is kneaded, rolled and cut by hand. We grill pasture-raised chicken over a binchotan-burning Yakitori Grill. Rintaro is the food of a Japanese Izakaya by way of California. Rintaro hand-rolled udon “carbonara” with a raw egg yolk, butter, ginger, scallion and freshly-shaved katsuobushiĢ020 Kamptal, Austria (Zweigelt, Sanct Laurent, Pinot Noir) ![]() ![]() Rintaro hand-rolled udon with two fishes dashi broth scallion Garlicky shoyu-marinated chopped San Diego Bigeye tuna over rice with a raw egg yolk, ume sesame and Ariake nori Rice and Becker Lane pork, Meiji tofu, Yamaki barley miso, ginger, hot chili and sansho pepper Housemade silken tofu with Meiji soy milk, freshly shaved katsuobushi, ginger, scallion and shiitake shoyuįancy folded omelet with Riverdog Farm eggs and freshly shaved katsuobushi dashiįried San Francisco anchovies "Southern Barbarian" style with carrot, onion and kumquat in a spicy vinegarīecker Lane Berkshire pork gyoza with chicken foot jelly and "wings" ![]() Bragg black cod with Hikari Farm cucumbers in a sweet vinegar Hikari Farm chrysanthemum greens with charcoal-grilled Sonoma Liberty duck breast and kumquat Hikari Farm mizuna, tokyo turnip, fuji apple, scallion and Monterey Bay squid with mustardy sweet white miso Sashimi plate for two with pacific mebachi, Baja kanpachi, konbu-cured hirame and Half Moon Bay wasabi ![]() Konbu-cured San Francisco hook and line halibut with Half Moon Bay wasabiīaja yellowtail amberjack with yuzu kosho and Half Moon Bay wasabi Wild pacific bigeye tuna with wasabi leaf pickle and Half Moon Bay wasabi ![]()
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