Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture washed into sea by Japan storm

Experts consider possibility of rebuilding artist's work, which was swept off a pier near Naoshima

Experts are determining whether it is possible to reconstruct one of Japan's most recognisable works of modern art after it was badly damaged during a recent tropical storm.

The sculpture, a giant black and yellow polka-dotted pumpkin by the celebrated artist Yayoi Kusama, has stood at the end of a pier on the art island" of Naoshima in the Seto inland sea since 1994.