Elelfa Moshiri House — Studio Room
Room in Moshiri, Akabira, Hokkaido
A room in Moshiri House, the residence of the Elelfa art collective in Akabira, Hokkaido. The northernmost of three artist-in-residence rooms, closest to the visual-arts studio. The room with the most natural light — wide windows, low sun in winter, long white days in summer. Latitude 43.54. Built for painters, illustrators, printmakers, ceramicists, photographers, collage artists, anyone whose practice is downstream of their eyes. Step out of bed and into the studio. The wood workshop is down the hall. The small music studio — Diatone soundsystem, 8-channel mixer, bass, guitar amp — is a few doors over if your painting needs a soundtrack. Moshiri is remote, mountainous, buried in snow for half the year. A Hokkaido artist residency for people who want distance from the city more than proximity to it. Bears in the hills, onsens in the valley, a rural northern Japan most visitors never see. A creative retreat for the kind of artist who came to work. $80 per night. Nightly pricing rewards longer stays. Book directly — no application, no portfolio, no interview. A studio with a bed attached is still a studio. The bed is incidental.
