A pair of worksz: A Red Girl (Mañjuśrī on the Lion) (right) A Blue Boy (Samatabhadra on the Elephant) (left)
1950
Wood cut print with hand colored pigment, framed
Seal:
64 x 38 cm (each image) / 91 x 62 cm (each overall)
Accompanied by Authentication Certificate from Munakata Shikō Appraisal Committee
Seals: Mune Shikō［棟志功］*same seal on both images
Publication:
The Complete Works of Shiko Munakata Vol. 2. The World of the Gods (1). Japan. Kodansha, 1977
Rice Paddy in Winter
1975
Color on paper, framed
With a label titled and signed by the artist affixed to the reverse
91 x 65.2 cm (image) / 92.5 x 67 cm (overall)
Literature
“Special Feature: Ikeda Yōson.” Asahi Gallery.
August 1978, 19.”
Steep Peak after Ike no Taiga
Mineral pigment on Japanese paper, framed
With a box signed by the artist
Seal: Ka [華]
23 x 14.5 / 25 x 16.5 cm (overall)
Exhibition:
Murakami Kagaku. Toyota: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 1999.
Murakami Kagaku. Kyoto: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Toyama: The Suiboku Museum, Toyama, 2005.
Publication:
Murakami Kagaku. Exh. cat. Toyota: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 1999.
Murakami Kagaku. Exh. cat. Kyoto: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2005.
Hyō
1973
Oil on board, framed
With a label signed by the artist
Accompanied by a certificate of registration by Takeo Yamaguchi Artwork Registration
Association
46 x 38 cm (image) / 49 x 41 cm (overall)
Hin (poverty, the naked state of birth, in Zen philosophy)
1974
Ink on Japanese paper
107 × 126 cm (image) / 109 × 128 cm (overall)
Exhibition:
First-time Showing 10, UNAC Salon, Tokyo, 1991, Subarashii Hin, YU-ICHI Works 1955-85, Koriyama
“YU-ICHI SHO-HO” Publishing Commemorative Exhibition, The Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Tianjin , China, 1995.
YU-ICHI HIN – Werke 1954 bis 1982, Schirn Kunsthalle / Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1995-96.
YU-ICHI INOUE in SEOUL, Seoul Arts Center, Calligraphy Hall, Seoul, South Korea, 1999.
A Centennial Exhibition INOUE Yu-ichi, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2016.
Literature:
YU-ICHI SHO-HO Revelation in Black on White – The Spiritual Austerity of YU-ICHI
YU-ICHI “HIN” (catalog, Schirn Kunsthalle)
YU-ICHI INOUE in SEOUL catalog, Rokugatsu no Kaze No,117
Yu-ichi [Yu-ichi INOUE]: Catalogue Raisonné of the works 1970-1976, ed. Unagami Masaomi, UNAC Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2000
A Yu-ichi Inoue Restropective: 1995-1985 (A Centennial Exhibition INOUE Yu-ichi catalog), Kaminori Paper Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, 2016.
Raisonné no. 74006
We are pleased to announce the solo exhibition Paper Space by graphic designer Atsuki Kikuchi at Shibunkaku Kyoto.
In addition to presenting his latest works, Kikuchi has thoughtfully curated a selection of early modern to modern artworks from our collection to be featured in the exhibition.
Concurrent curation by Atsuki Kikuchi:
Ryōkan, Sakai Hōitsu, Kumagai Morikazu, Fukuda Heihachirō, and others
Ginza Curator’s Room #012
Piercing Through a Porous Archive
Shibunkaku Ginza June 6 – 28, 2025 10am-6pm (Closed on Sunday)
For our 12th edition, Ginza Curator’s Room presents its first-ever co-curated exhibition, welcoming Osaka Koichiro, director of the project space ASAKUSA, and Guo Jau-lan, Associate Professor at Taipei National University of the Arts.
This exhibition begins with the photographs of Peng Ruei-Lin, a photographer who holds a significant place in the history of Taiwanese art. Contemporary artist Fujii Hikaru builds upon Peng’s photographs, transforming them into new works that explore the layers of memory and interpretation. Alongside this, the exhibition features a painting by Fujita Tsuguharu—created during the war and long considered lost. Through this juxtaposition, the exhibition invites reflection on the latent possibilities that archives hold.
Saga House is our art-in-residence program in the heart of Sagano, an area in Kyoto famed for its scenic views and its deep connection to Japanese culture.
Sagano became the place of origin of the classical poem anthology Hyakunin isshu (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets) when the Heian-period courtier Fujiwara no Sadaie selected poems by one hundred of the most celebrated waka poets, one poem each, to write them in graceful calligraphy on shikishi paper and adorn his mountain retreat in Saga’s Ogurayama district.
In tangible and intangible ways, Sadaie’s unique anthology continues to influence the life of the Japanese people to the present day.
The people of Kyoto, who cherish their traditional culture like nowhere else in Japan, at the same time embrace a progressive spirit that nourishes on new cultural developments in Japan and abroad, and aim to to develop such influences further into something of their own.
Our concept of Wanobi—the Beauty of Japan—is born in this area.
We are looking forward to welcoming creative spirits to these surroundings of Kyoto and Sagano, hoping to inspire timeless art that fuses the old with the new, reveals hidden beauty and spurs ideas and ambition.
The Shibunkaku Group is an art and culture corporation that is dedicated to the promotion of high-quality Japanese art and culture to the international audience and clients. We are dedicated to the inheritance, promotion and creation of the best-quality art and culture. Since our establishment in 1937, we have been committed to the inheritance of Japanese culture through art and antiquarian book dealing, gallery operation and publishing businesses.
