Seiganji Temple
Exhibition of Shoji Murakami’s ink brush paintings on bamboo paper
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artist：Shoji Murakami
An exhibition of ink brush paintings by Shoji Murakami. He is good at drawing ink brush paintings that cannot be imagined from his usual character. He uses Japanese paper made of bamboo, renowned for having been revived by the late Tsutomu Minakami, the writer who won the Naoki Award. The use of bamboo paper has generated different effects from those on usual Japanese paper.
Naoki Matayoshi and his world of literature
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artist：Naoki Matayoshi
Naoki Matayoshi’s novel, Hibana won the Akutagawa Award and sold more than two million copies. Art relating to his work is exhibited, including the painting“ Imasuka”（1.6m x 1.6m）, which has decorated the cover of the book of Hibana, painted by Miho Nishikawa, the calligraphy of fantastic four-character idiomatic compounds devised by Matayoshi and drawn by the calligrapher Syou U Tanaka, and other works that will make you imagine the world of Matayoshi’s literature.
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J.Seiganji Temple Date：10.13 tue - 10.18 sun
453 Sakurano-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto, 604-8035, Japan
Hankyu Kyoto Line 「Kawaramachi」 ①Exit 3minutes to the north
Keihan Main Line 「Gion-shijo」 ④・⑤Exit 5minutes to the northwestKyoto City Bus（Line Nos.12・31・32・46・51・201・207） 「Shijo Kawaramachi」 5minutes to the north
