The Chinese character for yama (mountain) is created with white cloths hung along a slope looking down on a river terrace. The 10,000 cloths, carrying prayers and wishes, were selected from submissions from the public Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
The work, created in 2006, has been moved from Kiwadahara. About 2,000 ceramic blocks are stacked into a cluster of trees, forming a "fort" in a quiet mountain park Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Three globes, constructed from logs, suddenly appear in the scenery. The natural material changes with the passage of time Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Visitors enter an apparently normal room. Then the storm strikes, and water floods through the ceiling Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Farming utensils and bowls found in a traditional Japanese house are suspended from string made of rice Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
With its walls gone, the frame of the house is laid bare. Trajectories are formed by string woven to radiate inside the pillars and beams of the building Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Objects created from trees and shrubs shaped by the snows of Echigo-Tsumari that have been carbonised. This year's collection includes contributions from local residents Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
There were only three students left in this school when it closed down three years ago Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
The artist wears a stuffed animal suit (the character Tamami the White Dog) and runs a booth. People provide the artist with personal items, which Tamami exchanges for items from other people. Three years from now, another booth will be set up to return the belongings, reuniting the participants Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Visitors are asked to bring old clothes and fabrics. The fabrics are ripped up and woven into small items such as coasters Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
In this house made both internally and externally of glass, drops of water fall gently. Photographs capture the faces of visitors as they observe Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
For their regular display on this subject, the artists this year created a snowman-shaped kofun (burial mound) out of styrofoam Photograph: Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno/Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
