I was born and raised in Japan, where an animistic worldview rooted in ancient traditions coexists with rationalist modes of thought introduced through modernization. Nature is something to fear, honor, and live with, yet it has also become an object of domination in the name of management and optimization. Within this contradiction, I reframe this worldview through two strategies—control and mimicry—and, by turning them into devices, I seek to expose the mechanisms through which human–nature relations operate.