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Every year, the Susukino Queen of Ice, a female beauty contest, is held at the site. [5] On 7 February 2012 (63rd Festival), a snow sculpture of Snow Miku (Hatsune Miku) collapsed on the Odori Park 6th Venue, where a female tourist was injured. This accident was the first injury in the history of the Snow Festival from the collapse of a snow ...
Mexican sculptor Abel Ramírez Águilar working on an entry for an ice sculpture competition. Ice Festival, Ice and Snow Festival, or Snow and Ice Festival may refer to one of the following events. Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China; Sapporo Snow Festival, Japan; World Ice Art Championships, Alaska, United States
Japanese sculptors have made many contributions to the art. Notable Japanese ice sculptors include Yukio Matsuo, author of "Ice Sculpture: Secrets of a Japanese Master," Mitsuo Shimizu, author of several Japanese books on ice sculpture, and Junichi Nakamura, winner of multiple world ice sculpting titles.
Kamakura (かまくら or カマクラ) is a type of traditional snow dome or quinzhee in snowy regions of Japan. Kamakura may also refer to the various ceremonial winter celebrations involving those snow domes, or to the Shinto deity Kamakura Daimyojin ( 鎌倉大明神 ), who is revered during some of those celebrations. [ 1 ]
Ice sculpture of the Sphinx erected for the 2010 festival. Swing saws are used to carve ice into blocks, taken from the frozen surface of the Songhua River. [13] Chisels, ice picks and various types of saws are then used by ice sculptors to carve out large scaled ice sculptures, [14] many of them intricately designed [13] and worked on all day and night prior to the commencement of the festival.
1994 : "Greenland Glacial Moraine Garden", Ukichiro Nakaya Museum of Snow and Ice, Kaga City, Japan (Architect : Arata Isozaki), Kaga; 1998 : Fog Sculpture #08025: F.O.G., Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (Permanent Collection) 2001 : IRIS, Fog Sculpture in collaboration with Shiro Takatani in Valencia Harbour, The 1st Valencia Biennial, Spain
Although most are wooden, 12 entries in the list are bronze, 11 are lacquer, 7 are made of clay and 1 entry, the Usuki Stone Buddhas, is a stone sculpture. Typically hinoki, Japanese nutmeg, sandalwood and camphorwood were the woods used for the wooden sculptures. Wooden sculptures were often lacquered or covered with gold-leaf.
Jukkasjärvi Icehotel interior. Sculptures by Jörgen Westin. In 1989, Japanese ice artists visited the area and created an exhibition of ice art. In Spring 1990, French artist Jannot Derid held an exhibition in a cylinder-shaped igloo in the same area. One night there were no rooms available in the town, so some of the visitors asked for ...