About Haraguchi Level Field
From 2012 to 2020 Haraguchi undertook repairs and renovations to this place where he lived and worked. Changes to the property since 2023 also reflect Haraguchi’s stated design and construction preferences. The following four areas are open for viewing.
Main gallery / 1F (Former studio)
Small gallery entrance / 1F (Former studio)
This part of Iwate Prefecture that Haraguchi called his “level field” was his base during the years 2011–2020. It is where the artist went about his daily life, worked, and continued to explore different processes and philosophies. This space, fundamental to those explorations, now serves as permanent home to Oil Pool (year), allowing visitors a spatial and temporal experience of this seminal work, alongside its maker’s workspace.
Library/archive 2F
The library houses books acquired by Noriyuki Haraguchi from 1963 to 2020, plus associated literature collected from 2021 up to the present. Displayed in the space on the second floor is a selection of past production notes from the archive.
Work space Annex 1F
Visit
Admission is by appointment only.
If you would like to visit, please contact us in advance by email or phone to let us know the number of people in your group and the desired date and time of your visit. Make sure you receive confirmation before visiting.
Email: levelfield@nhart.jp
Tel. 0197-62-4941
Admission
General: ¥1000
High school students and younger: Free
Directions
Address: HARAGUCHI LEVEL FIELD 11-120-1 Fushiushi, Kitakami, Iwate 024-0101 Japan
By train:
10 mins. by taxi from Shin-Hanamaki Station (Tohoku Shinkansen / JR Kamaishi Line)
By car:
Approx. 10 mins. down Kitakami-Towa Road, after turning right off the Kamaishi Expressway “Towa IC” exit.
Parking available
Renovations to Haraguchi’s former studio
2012: Haraguchi relocates from Zushi, Kanagawa
Renovation of the 2nd floor ceiling, bookshelves, and black Japanese-style room
2013: 1st floor studio
2015: 1st floor bathroom
2019: 1st floor workshop level foundations
2018: 1st floor office
2020: Private rooms
2023: Repair and renovation of other buildings on the site (under the supervision by Sotaro Yamamoto)
Building Details
Built 1960; 2 stories wooden with tile roof, 66.28㎡, Site 4572㎡