Art Lucky Bag
Thinking I’d pick up an art-themed lucky bag for the new year, I headed to “NADiff a/p/a/r/t” in Ebisu.
NADiff opened for business on Saturday, January 5, 2019, at noon.
Unboxing!
Now let’s open it up. The paper bag itself is a simple, thin brown thing, but the lucky bag has a solid, hefty weight to it.
Before opening, since I had bought something at the store, I could also enter a lottery limited to 140 buyers, in which artists offered New Year’s greeting cards.
The plan was to receive a card from one of six artists: Sachiko Kazama, Fuminao Suenaga, Sho Tanaka, Motohiro Tomii, Koji Nakano, or Yuichi Yokoyama.
The artist this writer drew was sculptor Koji Nakano.
Now, the contents of the lucky bag itself:
1) Christo’s art book
An art book jointly credited to Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude: “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Water Projects (Pb).”
It sells for over 4,000 yen even on Amazon. This one item alone more than covers the price.
Encounters with artists one wouldn’t normally buy for oneself are one of the joys unique to lucky bags. I’d like to sit down and read through it slowly when I get the time.
Summary
So that’s everything included in the lucky bag.
Financially it’s clearly a great deal, but it also became one of my favorite lucky bags thanks to the encounters with artists I hadn’t known before.
Above all, 3,000 yen tax-included is just too cheap. Thank you very much.
