Tetsuo Harada’s major artwork : “the Earth Weaving“ for the Tazawako dam. An environmental sculpture in granite integrated on the dam. Ordered by the Japanese Ministry of Equipment as the first realization of the Japanese ecological program. Inaugurated on October 19th. The artwork is made of four types of red and pink granite. With its waves, roots, links, rocks, sun, it stands in harmony with the dam, the mountain of Tazawako city and Komagatake volcano. Law relief, 120 meters in length, 16 meters high, around 500 polished pieces produced in Madras Chennai in India and Lanhélin-Brittany in France, transported by boat and truck into the Akita mountain at about 1200 m of altitude.
Also free standing landscape sculpture. On the right side of the dam : “Frienship bench“, circle 6 m, platform 25m2, in massive black granite. On the left side, a blue granite scupture “River“ H 2,9 m, floor 36 m2. In the entrance “le Tricot du Parc Culturel“, H 4m, surface 12 x 12 m, in pink granite.