Mono-ha is a 20th century Japanese art movement. It share features of, and may have been inspired by, the Land Art

Land art

Land art, Earthworks , or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked...

 movement.

Phase-Mother Earth

Nobuo Sekine

Nobuo Sekine

Nobuo Sekine is a Japanese artist, known for his participation in the Mono-ha movement. He was born in Saitama, Japan, in 1942. His "Phase of Nothingness", was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1970-Phase-Mother Earth:...

's Phase-Mother Earth is considered to be the initial work of the Mono-ha

Mono-ha

Mono-ha is a 20th century Japanese art movement. It share features of, and may have been inspired by, the Land Art movement.-Phase-Mother Earth:...

  movement. Originally created in Suma Rikyu Park in Kobe

Kobe

, pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...

, and without official permission. The work was re-created in 2008. It was a large cylindrical tower made of packed earth, which was removed from a cylindrical hole with the same shape.