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Image: The Resting Place by Luc Desmarchelier (detail)

Yesterday, when I wrote about Satoyama, I was delighted to discover the Totoro Forest Project Art Exhibition in San Francisco. What a wonderful idea - animators, anime artists and designers who have been inspired by the film My Neighbor Totoro joined together to help preserve precious forest just 40 km (24 miles) north west of Tokyo: a fund raising exhibition/auction to support the national trust Totoro Forest Foundation that Oscar winning film ma…