Hirotoshi Itoh finished from Seattle Nationwide Excellent Artistry School in 1982 and later went into his family business as a stonemason. He invested several years working with steel before switching his attention to rocks. He uses rocks found in a stream financial institution near his home, to make sculptures that juxtapose the unique appearance and firmness of the content with unexpected spontaneity and structure .
Between 1405 and 1433, during the Ming era, Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who was also the court eunuch, commanded seven expeditionary voyages as far away as East Africa and Middle East. These expeditions, known in Chinese history as the treasure voyages, consisted of hundreds of ships of enormous dimensions carrying a crew as large as 28,000 and great amounts of treasures. The purpose of the voyages were to project Chinese power and wealth to the outside world, as well as to establish imperial control over the maritime trade.
















