Tottori \u2013 Ephemerality and fragility are often evoked by sand: children\u2019s sand castles, waves washing away messages on the beach and the sands of time in an hourglass. In Tottori, however, sand is for creating and remembering.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The prefecture is known for its sand dunes and the Tottori Sand Museum<\/a>, which this year marked a milestone of 20 years of transforming sand into monumental sculptures, similar to how Sapporo has been using Hokkaido\u2019s snowy winters with its Snow Festival<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Sand Museum\u2019s exhibitions, which started outdoors in 2006 and moved indoors into a dedicated building in 2012, take on a new theme each year, usually a country, a continent or a historical period such as the Renaissance. Last year\u2019s show was Japan-themed; this year, the honor goes to Spain for an exhibition that began last month and runs through Jan. 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottori \u2013 Ephemerality and fragility are often evoked by sand: children\u2019s sand castles, waves washing away messages on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,3427,111,139,69,2751,2194,2029,221864,221862,221863],"class_list":["post-433233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sand","tag-sculpture","tag-spain","tag-spain-japan-relations","tag-tottori","tag-tottori-sand-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}