- Yukinori Yanagi Exhibition Yukinori Yanagi, Hinomaru I was born and raised in Fukoka, the Japanese prefecture closest to the Korean Peninsula. In our island-nation, where people are barely conscious of the national boundaries, I was occasionally forced to recognize the existence of a foreign country right next door. We often found, for example, everyday objects marked with Korean characters, in ...www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/yanagi_exh.html