Interview with Oscar Oiwa

This work, titled “Travelling around the World (New Country)”, is created by Mr. Oiwa himself by hand directly on the first-floor entryway glass at JICA Yokohama. Inspired by the scene of emigrant ships departing the Port of Yokohama in the early 20th century, the work depicts emigrant ships departing the Osanbashi Pier and the Red Brick Warehouse in Yokohama bound for new lands and the ocean towards the Central and South America. It will honor the Japanese emigrants who departed for the new world overseas.

This work, "Osanbashi", displayed on the second-floor entryway glass, depicts Yokohama's Osanbashi Pier in the early 20th century and the actual emigrant ship "Tenyo Maru" that departed from it. It aims to evoke in visitors, as they walk towards the entrance depicting the Osanbashi Pier of that era, the scenery of the time and the emotions of the Japanese migrants.

This work, displayed on the five pillars facing the second-floor atrium, depicts seven emigrant ships (Kasato Maru, Hawaii Maru, etc.) that actually departed from Japan carrying Japanese migrants for Central and South America, Hawaii, the United States, and other countries.