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Ukiyo-e POP Pop Culture from Edo to Today2013 September 18 (Wed.) – November 17 (Sun.)Part 1: 2013 September 18 (Wed.) – Octorber 14 (Mon./Holiday)
Part 2: 2013 Octorber 16 (Wed.) – November 17 (Sun.)

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Ukiyo-e POP Pop culture from Edo to Today2013 September 18 (Wed.) – November 17 (Sun.)Part 1: 2013 September 18 (Wed.) – Octorber 14 (Mon. /Holiday)
Part 2: Octorber 16 (Wed.) – November 17 (Sun.)
Organizer: Shizuoka Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (Designated Manager: NPO Hexaproject)
Cooperation:The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing , Edition Works , Mokuhankan“Popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and big business”–
Pop artist Richard Hamilton used these words to define Pop Art. With blossoming of popular culture in the Edo Period,
Ukiyo-e, which meets all of these criteria, could quite possibly be a pioneer of Japanese Pop Culture.This exhibition
will showcase 126 works from our collection, Utagawa Hiroshige’s masterpiece Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido(Hoeido Version) and Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido, in addition to approximately 40 works by contemporary
artists. Indulge yourself in the passed down legacy of Ukiyo-e’s pop perspective.

◎Artwork
Utagawa Hiroshige* Changes may be made to the exhibit content and displayed works.

Part.1 “Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido ” (Nihonbashi - Otsu / 71 pieces)
Part.2 “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido Version) Yui, Satta Pass” (Nihonbashi - Kyoto / 55 pieces)

Contemporary artists
Tanaka Ikko 『Ropes』series (6 pieces)
Awazu Kiyoshi『Fantasies on Japanese Playing CardsI』series (6 pieces)
Katsui Mitsuo 『Closed formsII』series (6 pieces)
Ay-O『Eruption of Mt.Fuji, Gaifu Niji Kaisei』(South Wind, Rainbow Clear Sky)
Miyake Mai『Seven Tales of A Cat 』series (7 pieces)
Yamaguchi Akira 『New Sights of Tokyo :Tokaido Nihonbashi Revisited』
Yamaguchi Ai 『Kenuru』
Peter McDonald『Over There』
STIK 『Mountain』（New work・Part2）『River』『Flower』『Cloud』
Jed Henry『Ukiyo-e Heroes 』series (13 pieces)（Woodblock Print / 5 pieces、Giclee Print / 8 pieces）
Shiyotsu Rimo『Big Mountain Soba Noodle』
Fukuda Miran『Snow, Moon and Flowers 2012』
Yoshida Jun『It's a small world』

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Utagawa Hiroshige
Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido 『木曾海道六拾九次之内』［Part 1］
Kiso Kaido is another name for the road Nakasendo; so called because it passes through the steep mountain pass named Kiso-ji.
Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige drew the roadʼs landscape for the Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido. In contrast to thebright style of painting in the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido, many of its works present a subdued moonlit scenery.

Seba

Nakatsugawa（ Nakatsugawa on a Rainy Day)
Also called Nakatsugawa on a Rainy Day , this is a very valuable piece for there are few prints
remaining in the world, and one of those is part of our collection. The blurred straight black lines projecta gloomy rain scene. Another version with the same name was produced later in greater quantities.

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Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido Version) 『東海道五拾三次之内』（通称：保永堂版）［Part 2］
The breakthrough work, Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido earned Hiroshige the title of “Master Landscape Artist”. Made when Hiroshige
was 37 years old, the popular series showed the variations of seasons and weather and was praised for its depictions of the road & post
landscape. It consisted of 55 works including the 53 stations of the Tokaido plus the starting point of Nihonbashi and ﬁnishing point of Kyoto.

Nihonbashi, Morning Scene

Yui, Satta Pass
The site of Satta Pass in Yui, where our museum is located, is known as a scenic spot forviewing Mt. Fuji and today it still oﬀer a view similar to the landscape Hiroshige drew. This
work is one of the best-selling pieces in the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido series.

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Introduction: Contemporary Artworks
These are artists who create new values and a sense of “now” by arranging Japanese tradition and culture into the modern
world.This exhibition introduces woodcut prints of contemporary artists who utilize the traditional woodcut print
techniques that continue to survive to today.

Tanaka Ikko Ropes series“Road”

Katsui Mitsuo Closed formsⅡ“tou”

Published by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints

Published by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints

Awazu Kiyoshi
Fantasies on Japanese Playing Cards“March”
Published by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints◀ Miyake Mai『Seven Tales of A Cat』

Published by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints

Seasonal Festivals, a typical inspiration for Edo
Period Ukiyo-e, are depicted with a modern
viewpoint. Five traditional seasonal festivities‒Coming-of-Age-Day (January 7), Girlsʻ Day(March 3), Boysʻ Festival (May 5), Tanabata/Star
Festival (July 7), Chrysanthemum Festival(September 9) ‒ are joined by two more festivities
which are a part of modern day life, Cherry
Blossom viewing and Christmas, making this awork of seven contemporary seasonal festivals.

Yamaguchi Akira ▶
『New Sights of Tokyo :Tokaido Nihonbashi Revisited』
Published by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints

There is an arched bridge above the current
Nihonbashi and Shuto Expressway, reminiscentof Hiroshige's Ukiyo-e work. People enjoy theview below the arch, where balcony-likestructure is arranged. Good old Nihonbashi, butnew, mixing past, present, and future. This is acontemporary Ukiyo-e work depicting
Nihonbashi, which continues to attract everything
and everybody throughout history and is also thestarting point of the Tokaido.

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Exhibiting artists 1
Ikko Takana

Kiyoshi Awazu

One of the representative designersof the 20th Century Japanese Graphic
Design, Tanaka was the designer ofthe 1964 Tokyo Olympic facility symbols
and medals, the Osaka World Expo
exhibition layouts, and the art directorof MUJI for its ﬁrst 20 years.
Ukiyo-e and other traditional arts
greatly inﬂuenced his work.

A proliﬁc top class graphic designer
Awazu collaborated on city-planning,
expo-planning and ﬁlmmaking
projects with artists in a variety ofﬁelds including architecture, music,
literature, and ﬁlm. He participatedin the Metabolism Group (1960) and
was involved in the Environment
Society group.

【Awards】
Silver in Warsaw International Poster
Biennale, Mainichi Design Award, NewYork ADC Hall of Fame, Purple Award
from Japanese Emperor, Tokyo ADC
Member Top Award, Person of Cultural
Merit, The First Kamekura Award【Awards】
Silver & Special Award in Warsaw
International Poster Biennale, Japan
Advertisement Art Award, Best Artist
in Japan Film Academy, Mainichi
Design Award・Special Award, Purple
Award from Japanese Emperor

Tanaka Ikko『Ropes series“Road”』
Published by the Adachi Institute of
Woodcut Prints /1979

Mitsuo Katsui

Ay-O

Born in 1931. Katsui started the
Katsui Design Oﬃce in 1961 afterworking for Ajinomoto. He worked
on numerous expos including the
Osaka Expo, Okinawa Marine Expo,and Tsukuba Science Expo. He has
been the chairman of JAGDA, Tokyo
ADC member, AGI member, New York
ADCmember,and Honorary Professorof Musashino Art University

Ay-O participated in the
Democrat Artists Associationin the 1950's before going to
US in 1958. He collaborated
with Yoko Ono as a memberof Fluxus, the avant-garde art
movement of the 1960's andreceived worldwide fame as
the "Rainbow Artist" for his
works in the 1964 Venice
Biennale.

【Awards】
Gold New York ADC Award, Tokyo
ADC Hiromu Hara Award, Japan
Advertisement Art Award, Purple
Award from Japanese Emperor,
Mainichi Design Award, Kodansha
Publication Culture Award, Education
Minister Award for Art Selection andRecommendation

Awazu Kiyoshi 『Fantasies on JapanesePlaying Cards series“March”』
Published by the Adachi Institute of
Woodcut Prints／1979

Ay-O 『 Eruption of Mt.Fuji, Gaifu Niji Kaisei』(South Wind, Rainbow Clear Sky)
Published by the Adachi Institute of
Woodcut Prints／1982

Katsui Mitsuo 『Closed formsⅡ (tou)』
Published by the Adachi Institute of
Woodcut Prints /1979

Mai Miyake

Akira Yamaguchi

Miyake began her artist activities
in 2001 after self-study. Her delicate
but audacious works take advantageof the exhibition space incorporating Japan's unique senses. A broadarray of activities include not only
exhibitions in art galleries, museums,
and art fairs, but also collaborations with companies ‒ JAL, Ginza
Maison Hermes, Takashimaya, Mori
Arts Center ‒ and book decorations.
She studied in Ecole Nationale
Superieur des Beaux-Arts (Paris,
2008-2009) on a scholarship.

Yamaguchi received the Outstanding Performance Award in 2001 forthe 4th Taro Okamoto Memorial
Contemporary Art Contest. Mainworks include bird's eye views on
cities and battleﬁelds that describe
powerfully in detail the various
events and folkways of all ages andcultures. His style attracts viewers bymixing humour with cynicism and isdistinctive by combining animals(including people), plants and inorganic
items such as machines. Not conﬁning
himself to only painting, he also
expresses himself in a variety of
media including sculpture, manga,
and installations.

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Miyake Mai『Seven Tales of A Cat “April”』
Published by the Adachi Institute of
Woodcut Prints /2012

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Yamaguchi Akira“New Sights of Tokyo :Tokaido Nihonbashi
Revisited”
Published by the Adachi Institute of
Woodcut Prints /2012

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Exhibiting artists 2
Ai Yamaguchi

STIK

In "Mountain Path Tea House",
girls are painted with uniquesupport and delicate ﬁne lines.
Yamaguchiʼs world of girls withnumerous meanings and images
oﬀers scenery with depth andafterglow. She creates new
Bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful
ladies) works based on theculture and folkways of the Edo
Period and Japanese aesthetics
such as Rinpa (one of the major
historical schools of Japanesepainting). Her activities attract
great deal of attention not only
within Japan but also abroad.

A street artist in East London, STIK
had four sold out solo-exhibitions in2011 and gained an international fanbase. In April 2012, his solo-exhibition"Walk" held at a London gallery soldout within ten minutes after the
opening. Social activities are a priority
due to his former homeless experienceand his activities, both domestic andinternational, include children's
workshops in UK and Jordan. STIK's
works are a highlight of East London's
street art tours.

Yamaguchi Ai『Kenuru』
Produced by Edition Works ／ 2010
© ai yamaguchi・ninyu works／2010

STIK（New work image）
Published by the Adachi Institute of
Woodcut Prints／2013

Jed HenryPeter McDonald

Jed Henry is an illustrator,
lifelong gamer, Japanophile, andall-around nerd. He grew up
copying art from game manuals,
and years later, eventually got a
degree in animation. He now
illustrates childrenʼs books, anddreams up crazy projects likeUkiyo-e Heroes. Jed lived inTokyo for 2 years, and proudly
speaks Japanese at about a
4-year-old level. Jed divides histime between drawing, hisfamily, and wishing he wereback in Japan.

McDonald is a young artist in UK who
has attracted worldwide attention
recently. He received the 2008 John
Moore Painting Award Grand Prizeand participated in a yearlong project
held at the Kanazawa 21st Century
Museum in 2011. He equates drawing
pictures as a performance and in 2002
started to paint ﬁgures with large
heads. Since then, these ﬁgures became
the core of his expression and he paints
daily scenes such as airports, schools,
barbershops, and cafés colorfully withsimpliﬁed iconography.
Peter McDonald『Over There』

Jed Henry『Ukiyo-e Heroes “Rickshaw Cart ”』
Produced by Mokuhankan / 2012.

Produced by The Adachi Foundation for
the Preservation of Woodcut Printing.
(Special print made for the foundation
members in 2012)

Rimo Shiyotsu

Miran Fukuda

He started his artistic activities
as painting master Rimo Shiyotsu
in 1981 and from 1991 to 2011as a Nihonga (Japanese-style
painting) artist under the nameTsuyoshi Mori. He creates asurreal world with a unique
viewpoint using accessible andfamiliar motifs.
1st Prize of the Adachi
Contemporary Ukiyoe Award
2010, Selected in Shingo Hoshino
Prize Exhibition at 5th "Triennale
Toyohashi" in 2011, Judges'
Special Award at FACE 2013
Sonpo Japan Art Contest in 2013.

Fukuda creates works with an
insightful eye on the ﬂood of
media and techniques in modern
art. In recent years she mademany drawings for newspapers inrecent years and held a solo
exhibition at the Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum in 2013.
Awards: Yasui Prize in 1989.
Gold prize at the "India
Triennale" in 1991. Gunma
Prefecture Modern Museum
Prize "Modern Japanese Art
Exhibition" 1992. VOCA Prizein 1994, Phillip Morris Art
Award 1996 Outstanding
Performance Award.

Shiyotsu Rimo『Big Mountain Soba Noodle』
Produced by The Adachi Foundation for the
Preservation of Woodcut Printing.
(1st Prize of the Adachi Contemporary
Ukiyoe Award 2010)

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Fukuda Miran『Snow, Moon and Flowers 2012』
Produced by The Adachi Foundation for the
Preservation of Woodcut Printing.
1(st Prize of the Adachi Contemporary UkiyoeAward 2011)

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Exhibiting artists 3
Jun Yoshida
Yoshida creates works bycommanding the techniques ofwoodcut printing and Japanesestyle paintings and fusing together
a line of vision towards future andtraditional craftsmanship on an
established artiﬁce. Active both inJapan and abroad, he exhibits not
only in Tokyo and Osaka, but also
in Shanghai and Taiwan.
Tokyo University of the Arts, Oil
Painting & Prints, Education &Research Fellow

Yoshida Jun「It's a small world」
Produced by The Adachi Foundation for the
Preservation of Woodcut Printing.
(1st Prize of the Adachi Contemporary UkiyoeAward 2009)

1st Prize of the Adachi
Contemporary Ukiyoe Award 2009

Cooperation
The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing
The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing is the only remaining publisher in Japan with craftsmen
preserving the high skills to make Ukiyo-e. In order to preserve and inherit traditional woodcut printing techniques developed
through Ukiyo-e from the Edo Period, activities vary around a core of growing technicians. Adachi continues to present many
works from Ukiyo-e reprinting to Yamato-e, including the Tale of Genji Picture Scroll, woodcut prints of Japanese painting
masters, and works by modern artists.

http://www.adachi-hanga.com/foundation/

Edition Works
Established in 1984, Edition Works is a Tokyo block print atelier producing work through a wide variety of techniques ranging
from traditional skills to digital expressions such as etching, lithograph, silkscreen, woodcut printing, and digital printing. Printing activities are also emphasized by planning and producing block prints and multiple works of mainly modern artists.

http://www.editionworks.jp

Mokuhankan
Mokuhankan is a woodblock print publishing venture initiated by British-born Canadian printmaker David Bull. Best known inJapan for his ten year project to create reproductions of Katsukawa Shunshoʼs Hyakunin Isshu designs, he has become well known
internationally as the ʻfaceʼ of traditional Japanese printmaking through his extensive internet activities. Mokuhankan is thevehicle through which he is training a new generation of traditional printers, with an emphasis on publishing designs that appeal
to young people all across the planet.

http://mokuhankan.com/jp/

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Related Event 1
Ukiyo-e Demonstrations & Workshops
Demonstrations and workshops by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints who continue the Edo-period
techniques of woodcut printing. All ages are welcome to participate.

□ When: October 20 (Sun.); Morning／11:00 - 12:30, Afternoon／13:30 - 15:00□ Presenter: Adachi Hanga Kenkyu-jo (Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints)□ Cost: Free *museum entrance fee is required
Spaces are limited to the first 15 people (pre-registration recommended).
Registration will close once all spaces are filled.

Utagawa Hiroshige

Demonstration and Workshop/ 2013

“Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido(Hoeido Version) Yui, Satta Pass”

Related Event 2
Edo Culture Seminar,
Part 3 “Nihon to Igirisu” (Japan and England)※Presentation is in Japanese.
□ When: November 3 (Sun.); 13:00–14:30□ Presenter: Timon Screech□ Cost: Free *museum entrance fee is required
Spaces are limited to the first 35 people (pre-registration recommended).
Registration will close once all spaces are filled.

Info/Registration□ tel: 054-375-4454□ https://tokaido-hiroshige.jp/inquiry

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Related Event 3
Gallery Talks by a Museum Curator□ When: Part 1 “Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido”,
September 21 (Sat.) 13:00 - 13:30
Part 2 “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido Version)”,October 19 (Sat.) 13:00 - 13:30□ Cost: Free *museum entrance fee is required□ Language: JapaneseMeeting place is the entrance hall of the museum.
No pre-registration needed; unlimited enrollment.

Hours ： 9:00 AM ‒ 5:00 PM (last admission 30 minutes before closing time)
Closed ： Mondays (if it falls on a holiday, then the following Tuesday)
Admission ： Adults: 500 (400) yen / University/High School Students: 300 (240) yen*Junior high students and younger as well as Shizuoka City residents over 70 are admitted free of charge* ( ) indicates prices for groups of 20 or more
* Persons with proof of disability and one accompanying person are admitted free of charge

Organizer ： Shizuoka Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (Designated Manager: NPO Hexaproject)
Cooperation ： The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing , Edition Works , Mokuhankan●

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Shosetsu Konya

Tomei Expressway

Omoshiro Shukuba-kan←Nagoya●

Route 1

Shimizu Bank

←Shimizu

Yui River

JR Tokaido Line●

Parking P

由比駅

For more information on this exhibition and press inquiries

Ｋ ●Circle●Yui Sakuraebikan

Parking P□ Access by train:
Take the JR Tokaido Line and get off at Yui Station.
It is a 25-minute walk or 5-minute taxi ride from there.
□ Access by car:
Exit the Tomei Expressway at the Shimizu IC and it is 20-minutesby Route 1 from there. There are 21 parking spaces at the museum(Yui Honjin Park Parking).

GS← Satta Pass●

297-1 Yui, Shimizu-ku
Shizuoka City 421-3103
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1. Utagawa Hiroshige“Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido Nakatsugawa“ From the Shizuoka Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art collection

2. Utagawa Hiroshige “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido Version) Yui, Satta Pass” From the Shizuoka Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art collection
3. Awazu Kiyoshi “Fantasies on Japanese Playing Cards March“ Published by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints
4. Yamaguchi Akira “New Sights of Tokyo :Tokaido Nihonbashi Revisited“ Published by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints
5. Miyake Mai “Seven Tales of A Cat series April” Published by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints
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