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KARA YAMAGUCHI
Costume and accessory designer Photographer and researcher Sacred site tours

Kara is an Australian with Japanese/American roots and has nearly 30 years of experience living and working in Japan as a teacher, artist, tour guide, writer, researcher and translator. She has held exhibitions across Japan and is currently one of the few people in the world researching Japan's lost super-civilization in English and introducing this crucial information about what is possibly the world's oldest civilization! Kara also studied kimono making for five years with a special focus on creating ancient costumes, and is dedicated to the preservation of Japanese fabric for future generations. She is now currently sharing her research and exploration into the Jomon period which existed in Japan for more than 10,000 years, and may just hold the key to creating a new and harmonious world for future generations.

Publications

Spirit of Mu, Bungeisha 2008 Bungeisha

How to do Kamishibai, 2008 Doshisha Publishing

Costumes designed by Kara at the Manyoshu exhibition
KOKOKA Kyoto

Original hair accessories using Nishijin fabric available for purchase at the Nishijin Textile Center in Kyoto

ART ACTIVITIES

1995 3rd Seto Fashion Contest - Selected for First Round

1995 Design selected in Edo and Fashion Contest

1996 Work selected for Photo Category, Art Box Grand Prix

1996 Artist in Profile, Azabu Craft Museum

1998 Member of Studio NOPE, exhibitions and costume/bead workshops for children

1999 Group Exhibition Seven Color Heaven Gallery Fresca Tokyo

2000 Solo Exhibition Dreamtime , Gallery Wa Tokyo

2001 Work selected for Photo Category, Art Box Grand Prix Tokyo

2003-04 Workshops for children at RBR Art School Tokyo

2003 「Star of Lemuria」 selected in Japan Bead Grand Prix Contest

2004 「Spirit of Mu」 selected in Beads Art Japan Competition

2004-05 Photographs used for 「Shi no Kusuribako」,Yomiuri Weekly magazine

2005 Spirit of the Kami exhibition sponsored by the Japan Foundation, Australia

Interviewed on ABC radio

2007 Manuscript selected publication under the 2007 Bungeisha Book Visual

Award

2008 "Spirit of Mu" published by Bungeisha Publishing Photography and spiritual

essay based on Japan's lost civilization

2009 The Rainbow Goddess Exhibition Les Trois Maisons gallery, Kyoto

2010 Lost Civilization of Japan Exhibition NHK TV gallery Kyoto, Les Trois

Maisons gallery Kyoto, Cafe Dolce Gallery Tokyo

2011 Manyoshu Exhibition

Honenin Temple, Kyoto, Gallery Koto, Kyoto

2012 Manyoshu Exhibition

Kyoto International Community House, supported by the Japan Foundation

2013 Feature article on Kara's research into sacred sites in Japan featured in

ANEMONE magazine
2014 The Manyoshu, ancient journey of love exhibition Tikotin Musuem, Haifa, Israel
2016 Nishijin fabric accessory collection - Nishijin Textile Center, Kyoto
Interviewed about Japan's Lost Super Civilization by Cliff Dunning on Earth Ancients
2017 Tales of Persia - Artislong Gallery, Kyoto
2018 Handmade Group Exhibition Gallery Little House, Kyoto

2020 「POWER OF OGAWA」Exhibition, Furusato Land Ogawa, Nagano