# Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death

Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death at Resobox, Thursday 5 November 2026, until 7 Nov.

- Price: $20–30
- Venue: Resobox, 27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City
- With: Koki Kimura, Taisan Tanaka
- Go to page: https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc/

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Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death is a two-day festival at RESOBOX that brings together artists, thinkers, and makers from Japan and New York to explore life through the lens of death. It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. No knowledge of Japanese is needed and all are welcome, whatever their beliefs.

## Dates

- Thursday 5 November until 7 Nov — Resobox

Written by a model, sources: [resobox.com](https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc/)

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