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Events

Events

Memorial services, lectures, markets and concerts at Ankokuin and Tachibana Gallery.

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Past events

  1. Lecture
    Buddhism, AI and Mountaineering — You too can be captured by a cultOpen & zoom

    Ohens Yachiyo Civic Gallery, Exhibition Room 4 (2510 Murakami, Yachiyo, Chiba)

    Buddhism, AI and Mountaineering — You too can be captured by a cult

    A free two-session lecture by the chief priest (capacity 15). Everyone is unknowingly captured by something — values, prejudice, fixed ideas. Buddhism teaches the way to let go of such attachments. AI, optimising against an evaluation function, likewise gets trapped in narrow valleys and on isolated peaks — much like the attachment Buddhism describes — while climbing toward a wide horizon mirrors the human path. A cult deliberately plants attachment; knowing the difference helps us see through the many cult-like phenomena of today.

  2. Event
    The 100th Hair Memorial ServiceOpen & zoom

    Gyokusenzan Ankokuin · Tachibana Gallery

    The 100th Hair Memorial Service

    “Gratitude to hair, pride in our trade, and thanks to our customers.” For the memorable 100th service, barbers and hairdressers joined hands to give thanks for their daily work and to pray for the future of their trade. After the memorial rite (12:00–13:00), the internationally active hair artist Mieko Ueda — former beauty director of Shiseido — dedicated a hair show and talk in Tachibana Gallery (13:30–15:00), styling the chief priest in front of the Recurrence Flowers folding screen. Master of ceremonies: Yoshiko Sugiyama.