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The Art of Chindogu in a World Gone Mad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Kawakami Kenji's weird inventions have brought him notoriety in his native Japan and in Europe, where some call him a surrealist genius and even a neo-dadaist. But there is method in his madness.

Let's be frank. Kawakami Kenji looks a bit barmy: hooded eyes staring unnervingly beneath what appears to be shaved eyebrows, topped by an unruly mop of spindly hair. And this is before he happily poses for photographs with a toilet-roll dispenser on his head. “It's for sufferers of hay fever,” he explains. “They blow their noses a lot.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 8 , August 2005 , e20
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