Yukinori Tokoro, a leading expert in fine art photography, and Live Publishing Co., Ltd. have created NFT artworks of Mr Tokoro, who was selected as a representative of Japan and released them on XANALIA, a next-generation NFT marketplace for AR/VR developed by NOBORDER.z FZE (Representative: RIO TAKESHI KUBO).
■ About the NFT
Yukinori Tokoro is a world-renowned photographer who has been active in international magazine features and solo exhibitions. He was selected as the Japanese representative for “New Expressions of the World” at Photokina 92, the world’s largest photography fair in Cologne, in 1992. Yukinori Tokoro has selected the most famous works from his representative series “Einstein Romance” (14 works), “ONE SECOND” (53 works) and “Rabbit Girl & Black Rimmed Eyeglasses” (34 works) and released them as NFTs on the NFT marketplace “XANALIA” for the first time in the world.
「Einstein Romance」 series
A series of works on the theme of time, taken from a bullet train travelling at 300 km/h, as a tribute to Einstein’s theory of relativity, including two works from the MoMA collection.
「ONE SECOND」 series
A series of works expressing the city (Shibuya, Ginza, New York, Paris, Montreal), fashion, dance, and esoteric Buddhism within the flow of one second, including two works used at the Paris Collection and the beginning of the press pamphlet for HIROKO KOSHINO.
「Rabbit Girl & Black Rimmed Eyeglasses」
As with the other works in this series, the theme was time. A collaboration with the model’s beloved daughter.
This work will be exhibited in a virtual museum in XANA, the NFT virtual space developed by NOBORDER.z, and users will view it using VR or smartphones.
■ Sales link
【NFT Store】
https://xanalia.com
【Artist Page】
https://xanalia.com/artist/60ffb65b9d22af09aaf17242
■ Yukinori Tokoro
After graduating from Osaka University of Arts with a degree in photography, he began working as a freelance photographer in magazines, advertisements, and photo books.
In fashion, he has worked on posters in Germany and England and Japan, including photographs of models for fashion
magazines. His unique perspective towards the world has earned him a high reputation worldwide. From his early works, he has been presenting fantasy works of angels and fairies. His famous front covers include Tsuyoshi Kitazawa, Shigeo Nagashima, Coach Ivica Osim, Stojkovic, Bob Sapp, and speed skater Shimizu. The advertising consists of Cartier, Coca-Cola, Alan Silverstein, Michiko Koshino, Hiroko Koshino, WEST (Germany), HERB & SPICE COMPANY (London), Fuji TV, Nippon TV, TV Asahi, Shikoku Digital Tsuka, Panasonic, Nike, Canon, Casio, PARCO Theater, Mitsubishi Electric, and Mitsubishi Electric, Levi’s, Japan Riva, etc. In 2007, I created six sets of posters for the World Figure Skating Championships, featuring Miki Ando, Mao Asada, Yukari Nakano, Daisuke Takahashi, Nobunari Oda, and the ice dance pair of Kido and Watanabe. His miraculous works, which have a unique worldview and seem to float between reality and unreality, have surpassed the photography framework. He has received high praise from various fields as an individual artist in the world.
In 2007, he decided to reset his career as Yukinori Tokoro for the first time with a compilation of his works, “CHIAROSCURO: A Genealogy Leading to Angels,” published by Bijutsu Shuppansha in 2006.
In 2007, he began a new phase of his career as Yukinori Tokoro, focusing on the monochrome landscapes of Shibuya, Tokyo. In 2008, he started working on the One Second series, which incorporates a different concept of the time axis than the moment. In the autumn of 2008, he held his solo exhibition “Shibuya One Second Moment and Eternity” in Shibuya. In May 2009, he was featured in Eyemazing (a Dutch fine art photography magazine) for his “Shibuya one second” series, and in spring 2012, he was featured in the same magazine for his new nude series.
He is currently working on a series of articles for CAPA (Gakken) in Japan, titled Slow Photo, starting with the October 2011 issue. From April 2014 to March 2019, he was appointed as a visiting professor at Osaka University of Arts, where he lectures at local governments and takes photographs on the theme of time. Since then, he has been asked to give many lectures and performances by local governments and corporate universities such as Hiroshima, Takamatsu, and Kagawa Universities. As an artist, he continues to present his work on time in solo exhibitions and books.
■ Portrait of Yukinori Tokoro
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Yumi Matsutoya, Shigeru Sugiura, Patrice Leconte, Yasushi Machida, Tadanori Yokoo, Taro Okamoto, Akihiro Miwa, Gackt, Fumiya Fujii, Yasuyuki Suto, Tetsuya Kumagawa, Tamio Kusakari, Cornelius, Original Love, BUCK-TICK, Taro Okamoto, Fujio Akatsuka, Hinano Yoshikawa, Shinji Takeda, Kyoko Fukada, Etsushi Toyokawa, Hitomi Kuroki, Honami Suzuki, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kyoko Fukada, Kyoka Suzuki, Toshiaki Karasawa, Kunie Tanaka, Manami Konishi, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kyoko Koizumi, Eri Fukatsu, Goro Kishitani, Koichi Sato, Tomoya Nagase, Makiko Esumi, Kyozo Nagatsuka, Takashi Fujii, Seiichi Tanabe, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, Flipper’s Guitar, Shigeo Nagashima, Sadaharu Oh, Dragan Stojkovic, Michael Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, Hiroyasu Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Kitazawa, Hidehiko Yoshida, Mao Asada, Daisuke Takahashi, Keisuke Honda, Coach Osim (in no particular order), and many others.
关于XANALIA
XANALIA, developed by NOBORDER.z FZE and managed by XANALIA LIMITED, is an NFT marketplace that is currently attracting global attention, and ranked as the “No. 1 NFT Marketplace with high expectations” in Japan. By incorporating NFT and DeFi (decentralized finance), which are the fastest growing areas in the blockchain market, the diluted potential market capitalization temporarily exceeded $1.4 billion (about 165 billion yen) in just one month after its launch on March 7, 2021.
And even now, following the virtual currency market crash, it maintains a high value of $400 million (approx. 44 billion yen), indicating the high level of global attention.
The company has released several epoch-making NFTs globally, including an NFT of a virtual fashion show during Milan Fashion Week 2021, an official NFT artwork of Hokusai Katsushika, one of the greatest Japanese artists the first program-linked NFT in the Chinese TV drama industry.
■ About Live Publishing Co.
We are a publishing company with the theme, “Actively involved in what’s happening globally, and giving back to society a vibrant sense of joy. Established in January 2021, the company is based on publishing and seamlessly developing various businesses.
Official website: https://livepublishing.co.jp/
■ NOBORDER.z
We are a next-generation entertainment technology company with a vision of a “More Wonders No Borders”. The company’s vision is to create a world without borders, and it operates in five countries around the world, with offices in New York and Dubai. The company’s business combines cross-reality technologies using VR and AR, blockchain, NFT and AI with entertainment.
■公司简介
| 公司名称 | NOBORDER.z FZE |
| 地点 | Business Center, AI Smooch Building, UAQ Free Trade Zone, Umm AL Quwain, UAE. |
| 商业 | 开发VR、XR、AI、NFT和区块链技术和管理服务 |
| 首席执行官 | 里约-久保武夫 |
| 网站 | https://www.noborderz.com |
联系
| 部门 | 公共关系部 |
| 查询 | [email protected] |
Koichi Nakata (MEIBIS +), a video artist who handles the digital processing and collection of ukiyo-e, and Live Publishing Co., Ltd., is known for “Kanagawa Okinami Ura” and other works by Katsushika Hokusai “Fugakusanjuro”. XANALIA, the AR / VR compatible NFT market, developed by NOBORDER.z FZE (Japanese name: No Borders) (Representative: RIO TAKESHI KUBO), a next-generation entertainment technology company, released the NFT artworks of “Kei” (46 figures in total).
■ About the NFT
The “Fugakusanjurokkei” (46 figures in total), which is famous for “Kanagawa Okinami Ura” etc. is a collection of Fuji illustrations (large format Nishiki-e) which was published in 1831-34 (Tempo 2-5) by Katsushika Hokusai. This NFT consists of digital still images owned by Mr Koichi Nakata and all 46 figures that Mr Nakata has applied motion processing to. It will be released as the world’s first official NFT of Katsushika Hokusai, which has a worldwide reputation.
(Kouichi Nakata) Many ukiyo-e prints are not of high quality as a popular culture, so the beauty of prints is impaired, such as colour burn, damage, colour shift, worm-eaten, and stains. There are many. Hokusai’s work, which is currently said to be the first edition, is priced at tens of millions of yen.
The images to be released this time are scanned, modified and restored in various editions by utilising the technology acquired by our original 28 years of ukiyo-e image restoration, securing copyrights, and the network with antique art owners built during that time. -It has been revised and has been evaluated as the closest digital art to the first edition.
In addition, this work will be exhibited at the virtual museum in the NFT virtual space XANA developed by NOBORDER.z, and users will be able to view it on VR and smartphones.
■ Sales link
https://xanalia.com/artist/60ec85d177e852a2dfe0a65f
■ About the original author
Katsushika Hokusai is an ukiyo-e artist in the late Edo period and one of the representatives of Kasei culture. His representative works include “Thirty-six Views of Tomitake” and “Hokusai Manga”, and he is a world-famous painter. In 1999, he was the only Japanese to rank 86th in the “100 People in the World Who Made the Most Important Achievements in the Last 1000 Years” project of the American magazine “Life”..
关于XANALIA
XANALIA is an NFT marketplace that is currently attracting worldwide attention, with the number one expected NFT marketplace in Japan. Developed by NOBORDER.z ZFE and operated by XANALIA LIMITED. With the introduction of NFT and DeFi (Decentralized Finance), which are currently the fastest growing areas in the blockchain market, the diluted potential market capitalization is temporary $ 1.4 billion in just one month after launch on March 7, 2021. It has exceeded (about 165 billion yen) and remains at 400 million dollars (about 44 billion yen) even after the collapse of the virtual currency market, showing its high level of worldwide attention.
Global breakthroughs such as NFT of virtual fashion shows developed in Milan Fashion Week 2021, official NFT artwork of Katsushika Hokusai, the highest peak of Japanese artists, and the first program-linked NFT Chinese large-scale TV drama world Refrain from releasing many popular NFTs.
■ About the creator
Nakata calf (MEIBIS Tasu)
(Koichi Nakata)
first attache type PC developed world in 1985 (manufacturing Melbourne).
April 23, 1992 Development of the second CD ROM writer in Japan (Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, page 1 article published).
November 1, 1993 Announcement of composite photography technology (Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun article announcement).
With the above development and release, images will be edited, modified, repaired, and converted to CDR.
For the release of this CDR photo book, many images were needed, and at the same time, it was essential to secure the copyright.
In the process of collecting as described above, I came to meet many ukiyo-e and antique art owners and also worked on repairing and repairing damaged works.
In addition, many users want the copyright of such images, and they are now on sale as CDR works.
Among the antique art, many of the colour prints are ukiyo-e prints, so this is the main product.
Other works (scanning + correction restoration + colourisation) include antique art images centred on Japan, original antique photographs (each field), and old drawing prints in each area.
■ About Live Publishing Inc.
A publisher with the theme of “actively engaging in what is happening in the world and returning lively joy to society.” Based on publishing, we will seamlessly develop various businesses. It was established in January 2021.
■ NOBORDER.z
We are a next-generation entertainment technology company with a vision of a “More Wonders, No Borders“. The company’s vision is to create a world without borders, and it operates in five countries around the world, with offices in New York and Dubai. The company’s business combines cross-reality technologies using VR and AR, blockchain, NFT and AI with entertainment.
■公司简介
| 公司名称 | NOBORDER.z FZE |
| 地点 | 商务中心，AI Smooch大厦，UAQ自由贸易区，乌姆阿勒奎因，阿联酋。 |
| 商业 | 开发VR、XR、AI、NFT和区块链技术和管理服务 |
| 首席执行官 | 里约-久保武夫 |
| 网站 | https://www.noborderz.com |
联系
| 部门 | 公共关系部 |
| 查询 | [email protected] |
Masami Tanaka, the world’s leading aurora photographer, and Live Publishing Inc. have been invited to participate in XANALIA, an AR/VR-enabled NFT marketplace developed by NOBORDER.z FZE (CEO: RIO TAKESHI KUBO), a next-generation entertainment technology company operating in five countries around the world. XANALIA, an AR/VR compatible NFT marketplace, has released a total of 134 aurora works by world-renowned aurora photographer Masami Tanaka on the platform.
■ About this NFT
Masami Tanaka has been photographing the aurora borealis in Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada) for 23 years, and has been featured in various media, including a particular program on NHK, and has many fans overseas. A total of 134 works, including 100 still images, 6 VR360 PANORAMA videos, 18 time-lapse videos and ten rare real-time videos, will be released in NFT format. The works will be exhibited in a virtual museum in XANA, the NFT virtual space developed by NOBORDER.z, where users can view them via VR or smartphone.
■ Masami Tanaka XANALIA Store Link
https://xanalia.com/artist/60ec85ec77e852a2dfe0a660
关于XANALIA
XANALIA is a global NFT marketplace, developed by NOBORDER.z FZE and managed by XANALIA LIMITED. By incorporating NFT and DeFi (decentralised finance), the two fastest-growing areas in the blockchain market, NOBORDER.z FZE’s diluted potential market capitalisation temporarily exceeded $1.4 billion in just one month after its launch on March 7, 2021.
The company’s diluted potential market capitalisation exceeded $1.4 billion at one point within a month. It remained at $400 million even after the virtual currency market crash shows the high level of global attention it is receiving.
The company is about to release several groundbreaking global NFTs, including the NFT of a virtual fashion show during Milan Fashion Week 2021, the official NFT artwork of Hokusai Katsushika, one of the greatest Japanese artists, and the first NFT linked to a TV show in the Chinese TV drama industry.
■ About the creator
Masami Tanaka
Born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Since childhood, he has been interested in photography. At the age of 18, he built a darkroom in his house and started developing colour photographs and reversal films.
After graduating from photography school, he worked for a film company doing hand-burning. After two years, he became independent and started taking nature photos on his own. At the age of 23, he met a kingfisher in a mountain stream and was fascinated by its sight, which he spent the next 12 years photographing. He published his first photo book in Japan (Yama Jade).In 1988, he began photographing nature above 60 degrees north latitude. His current focus is on still and moving VR360 panoramas and motion timelapse.
He teaches Aurora and Timelapse at NHK and Kogakuin University for both amateurs and professionals. His work has been featured in the Nikkei newspaper, Fuji Sankei, NHK, BS-TBS NTV and NHK-BS Premium.
■ Typical programmes
NHK-G: A spectacular view of the sky – Aurora Borealis, a spectacular view of the four seasons
NHK-4K My cousin’s Aurora Borealis – The story of the people and the fantastic view of Canada’s northern land
NHK-BS Premium Aurora Borealis: The Spectacular Four Seasons
NHK-8K The world of ultra-high resolution 8K time-lapse video
BS-TBS New Earth Scenery
BS-TBS New Earth Traveller’s Journal
Published in nature and travel magazines, pamphlets and many others.
He is a lecturer at manufacturers’ events, a touring instructor for travel companies and an accompanying photography instructor.
He was contacted by the Memorial Hall of Shibusawa Eiichi (Shibusawa Eiichi Foundation), a businessman and educator, because of his resemblance to Shibusawa Eiichi, and has written an essay for the Foundation’s journal, Sieben.
■ Main publications
“Panorama of the Northern Lights” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha)
“Beyond the Arctic” Real-Time Aurora (Kosaido Shuppan)
Mountain Jade (Cleo) etc.
His photographs have been exhibited at the Fuji Photo Gallery and other manufacturers’ exhibitions and joint exhibitions.
He is an accredited nature photographer with Tourism Canada and Tourism Northwest Territories.
Member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society (JPS)
Member of the Advertising Photographers’ Association of Japan (APA)
■ About Live Publishing Inc.
“We are a publishing company that is actively involved in what is happening in the world. We aim to be actively engaged in what’s happening globally and bring joy to society. Founded in January 2021, we are a publishing company that seamlessly develops various businesses based on publishing.
■ NOBORDER.z
We are a next-generation entertainment technology company with a vision of a “More Wonders, No Borders“. The company’s vision is to create a world without borders, and it operates in five countries around the world, with offices in New York and Dubai. The company’s business combines cross-reality technologies using VR and AR, blockchain, NFT and AI with entertainment.
■ company overview
| 公司名称 | NOBORDER.z FZE |
| 地点 | 商业中心，AI Smooch大楼，UAQ自由贸易区，Umm AI Quwain，UAE。 |
| 商业 | 开发VR、XR、AI、NFT和区块链技术和管理服务 |
| 委员长 | 里约-久保武夫 |
| 公司网站 | https://www.noborderz.com |
联系
| 部门 | 公共关系部 |
| 询盘 | [email protected] |
NOBORDER.z (CEO: Rio Takeshi Kubo), a Cross-reality business based in New York and Dubai, has developed a Blockchain-based platform, XANALIA. It will be used in the large-scale reality program “Remember Me” (Chinese name: Demanding Sumiga) which is based on influencers and will be aired mainly in mainland China in 2022. The show has announced the production of the NFT series.
■ About the Program
In recent years, a new profession called influencer has emerged worldwide, including in China. Everyone wonders what influencers think and how they promote their ideas.
What kind of battle will you go through to win as a top influencer? So, “Remember me” will be produced as a survival-style reality show by fan voting. The program will welcome many top influencers, and the total production cost will be over 2 billion yen.
■ About NFT Program
For the first time, NOBORDER.z will introduce blockchain technology on the program allowing influencers to sell NFTs based on fan voting or their own creations as an NFT on the program’s official website and the NFT marketplace “XANALIA” developed by NOBORDER.z.
Also, it introduces a virtual space XANA to create and sell virtual content utilizing the NFT.
■ Chinese Entertainment (sponsored by China)
The company has the most significant number of distributors on the social platform TikTok (Chinese name).
Currently, we are managing 80,000 contract distributors and an average of more than 6,000 live distributors every day. Monthly viewers exceed 200 million.
■ Kingdom Entertainment Group (Production)
Kingdom Entertainment Group is an entertainment company that produces international shows of giant brands such as Victoria’s Secret shows.
It is one of the top 10 shows globally, broadcasted live in 160 countries worldwide, and has more than 1.5 billion viewers.
■ IPE Universal (Co-sponsor from Asia)
For 15 years, IPE Universal has been producing videos, games, and business-related programs that have produced more than 200 well-known IPs.
According to an Internet survey conducted by the Japan Marketing Research Organization in April 2021, the next-generation NFT marketplace XANALIA developed by NOBORDER.z is “No.1 NFT Marketplace” and “The No. 1 blockchain project for 2021”. Therefore, this platform will grow the most in the year, and the No. 1 DeFi project will witness a price increase.
Japan Marketing Research Organization Co., Ltd. Official Website: https://jmro.co.jp/
XANALIA
No.1 blockchain project expecting the most growth in 2021
No.1 DeFi project expecting a price increase
No.1 Rapidly growing NFT marketplace
XANALIA is a marketplace where anyone can easily create and trade NFTs, currently gaining worldwide attention. By incorporating the currently fastest growing NFT and DeFi mechanism in the blockchain market, the diluted potential market capitalization is 1.4 billion dollars (about 165 billion yen) in just one month after the launch on March 7, 2021. It shows a high degree of worldwide attention, which is exceeding.
<Characteristics of XANALIA>
● Decentralization
Instead of being operated centrally by a specific company, we have adopted a new mechanism that will last forever while visualizing smart contracts on the blockchain. It is highly resistant to hacking and human error. In addition, the server where NFTs are stored uses the latest decentralized storage called IPFS instead of the server provided by a specific company, and files are permanently present on the network without being affected by third parties.
● World’s highest level of cost performance
NFTs have mainly used the Ethereum (ETH) network, but there are various problems such as high fees and transaction speed. XANALIA solves the problems ahead by adopting BSC (Binance Smart Chain), developed by Binance, the world’s largest exchange, and realizes about 1/100 of the network usage fee so far.
● AR / VR compatible
Until now, NFTs have been limited to applications such as collecting them in a wallet and buying and selling them or using them in games, but XANALIA uses AR / VR to create a virtual reality of their collections. Allows you to create an “owned” experience. It is possible to respond to various projects such as AR / VR gamification development utilizing NFT.
Currently, NFT works such as famous anime, games, and artists from Japan and overseas are scheduled to be released, and further growth is expected with the acquisition of this triple crown.
URL: https://xanalia.com/
