from Noto : May 2018

29/05/2018

Exhibition Notice

Isetan Department Store, Shinjuku, Fifth Floor Center Park, Stage 5

Hikoju Makie/Takashi Wakamiya: A chance to speak

Wednesday 6th June till Tuesday 12th June 2018 10:00—20:00

30 Years with True Lacquer: Past, Present and Future

Takashi Wakamiya will be giving a talk in the gallery on

Saturday 9th June, 14:00—14:30

Takashi Wakamiya was born and brought up on the Noto Peninsula surrounded by the rich countryside, which reached out to him almost without him knowing, and resulted in makie work full of rural roots. He has been actively involved in projects to foster the regeneration of Wajima lacquerware, with a view to being able to produce items fashioned from locally grown wood and finished with locally tapped lacquer. The is a rare opportunity which should not be missed.

輪島の田舎「南志見」に生まれ育ち、目に見えない故郷の自然や環境の力に育まれ生かされている感覚を蒔絵の意匠に活かした作品、輪島漆再生プロジェクト実行委員会の活動、輪島産木材に輪島産漆で制作した漆器などを発表します。どうぞこの機会にご高覧賜りますれば幸いでございます。

展示会名「彦十蒔絵若宮隆志展～若宮隆志が伝えたいこと～」

会期「2018年6月6日（水）～12日（火）10:30~20:00」

場所「伊勢丹新宿店本館５階＝センターパーク/ザ・ステージ＃５」

ギャラリートーク

　　日時：6月9日（土）　14:00~14:30

　　トーク内容：うるしと３０年「平成から未来へ」～若宮隆志の取り組み～

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17/05/2018

Exhibition Notice

FunaAsobi Gallery—Exhibition Notice

1st June to 10th June

Black is Beautiful—New pieces of Suzu ware by Takashi Shinohara

This exhibition of work by Takashi focuses on unglazed pieces of dark Suzu ware. Black is the overall impression but each piece habours a sparkling universe of specks of colour. The forms, too, bring out the colours and whether vases or bowls each has a distingtive Shinohara line.

6/1~6/10 「美しき黒のフォルム」~珠洲焼篠原敬(Takashi Shinohara)~
珠洲焼篠原敬の個展です。釉薬を掛けず焼成によって出る黒は、宇宙のように様々な色合いを見せてくれます。また、フォルムが現れる色です。花器や器を中心に篠原の美しいラインをご覧いただきたいです。

Photo Copyright FunaAsobi Gallery

08/05/2018

Exhibition Notice

Chrysanthemum Arabesque Pattern Nashi-ji inside Cloisonne-Lacquering Maki-e Tea Caddy

International Antiques Fair 2018 Hong Kong

May 26th~28th 11:00am~7:00pm and May 29th 11:00am~5:00pm

Hong Kong Convention Exhibition Centre 5BC Booth: F5

Under the leadership of Takashi Wakamiya, the Hikoju Makie collective of true lacquerware artisans has taken on a new challenge—to create a piece of lacquerware with a strong “antiqued” appearance and character for the International Antiques Fair 2018 to be held in Hong Kong. The effect is stunning and the tea caddy itself could easily have been made in the very early part of the 20th century. A piece of high quality antiqued work.

One member of the Hikoju Makie team will be at our booth during the exhibition to demonstrate some of the time honoured skills and techniques without which Japanese craft culture would be lost.

Takashi will also be on hand during the exhibition to explain the team’s work.

http://iaf.com.hk/eng/p4.asp?details=1&ItemID=N000040

彦十蒔絵が今月末香港で開催される「國際古玩展２０１８」

のご連絡を申し上げます。

会期：5月26~28日 11:00am~7:00pm , 29日 11:00am~5:00pm

場所：香港會議展覽中心展覽廳5BC Booth: F5

今年の出店に伴い、日本の漆芸文化をもっと身近に感じていただく為、

輪島から職人一人を連れて会場内で不定期の実演を実施する事を考えております、新しい作品の発表も予定しております。

添付資料に新作　「菊花唐草模様　内梨子地　漆塗琺瑯彩蒔絵のお棗」写真を付けました。

どうぞご覧くださいませ。

01/05/2018

Inspiration?

Wales and Japan

Ceibwr Bay—one of the many bays and inlets along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales is rather special. Reached along a narrow road from the hamlet of Moylegrove the bay is flanked by high cliffs. Formed over millions of years the cliff folds are evidence of how layers of rock have been bent and folded by powerful movements of the Earth’s crust.

This exposed face of Ordoviian rocks is, of course, unusual. It is the kind of example that might find its way into a geography or geology text book. And, for that matter, it surely has been sketched and painted for its raw beauty and photographed as a seldom-seen phenomena. It is nothing short of inspirational.

Near Moylegrove is the town of Newport Pembrokeshire. Although it shares its name with the large conurbation of Newport on the southern coast of Wales, that is where comparisons end.

This small town lies on the coast road and is much favoured as a summer retreat for families from all over the United Kingdom. The mountains rising up behind the town are thought to have provided some of the monoliths for Stonehenge and there are many burial mounds as well as archeological remains of settlements.

Close to the centre of this attractive town is this stone-faced road-side house. Perhaps my comparison of its facade with the cliff face at Ceibwr Bay is fanciable but there are certainly similarities.

Clearly there are some structural benefits to the way the stones have been laid but was this done by a mason based on years of experience or could the folded strata at Ceibwr Bay have been an inspiration. Who knows.

Many traditional buildings in Wales are built of stone and do not have any decorative features on their exteriors. They simple resist the elements.

The same can be said of traditional Japanese buildings. Their character is of a structure to fend off the elements—rain, snow and wind while providing shade from the sun and enough ventilation to make the hot humid summer months more bearable. Such buildings are empirical as well as expressions of pure logic shaped by the laws of nature.

It is the interiors of some traditional Japanese buildings occupied by the wealthy and nobel that display patterns and objects inspired by nature and the elements.

Tokikuni House, Noto Peninsula—Typical of how some traditional buildings in Japan are all roof.