A new art installation at Toda Building

We have recently added a new art installation to the garden space on the 4th floor of Toda Building. We invite you to come and experience the piece during your next visit.

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"Foundation Stone from the Kano Family Storehouse in Kyobashi"

2025-2026

Stone excavated from the Toda Building construction site, with laminated glass

During an archaeological survey conducted at the Toda Building construction site from 2015 to 2020, a wide range of artifacts and structural remains were unearthed that shed light on the culture of Edo townspeople. Most notably, the survey revealed that this site was once the estate of the Nakabashi Kano family, painters in the official service of the Tokugawa shogunate, and numerous foundation stones from a storehouse dating to the mid- to late Edo period (1603–1868) were among the items recovered.

For this project, the artist TODO collected, cut, and beautifully polished a foundation stone, bearing the imprint of history, then inlaid it with laminated glass. Reviving centuries of memory and history held within the stone and reconnecting it to the present, the object returned to the building in 2026 as what might be called toki no tsugi-ishi (stone that joins time), a term that evokes both the repair stones long used in architecture and the role of connecting memory from one era to the next.