The term “electronics device” can be interpreted as a “device for evoking imagination.” When imagination can be opened infinitely, such a device would fulfill its role as the ultimate electronics device.
In the philosophy of Kitarō Nishida, it is shown that the “present” can disclose the “infinite” through the mode of absolutely contradictory self-identity. Zen expresses this “present” with the word Nikon.
The haiku poet Matsuo Bashō sought to reveal this Nikon by “returning to and following the workings of nature.”
That meant placing oneself in a world where the everyday world of meanings is discarded—a world of infinite inter-reflection and mutual presence. The “house = electronics device” presented here is conceived in accordance with this lineage.

The device consists of a gently sloped basin, a glass-box room enclosed by walls of cascading water flowing from that basin, and an irregularly shaped metal plate suspended above.The water in the basin serves as a ritual boundary separating the everyday world from the living space.
One approaches the room by stepping across stones set into the water. The surface of the basin ripples in the wind, and the light reflected there is captured along with the light of the sky on the metal plate suspended above the glass box. This metal plate reflects the light subtly onto the glass box and the surrounding water walls. The water in the basin flows gently, changing its sound with shifts in weather. The world of light and sound that envelops the glass box transforms its expression moment by moment.
In this glass box wrapped in light and sound, the Nikon is revealed.