Traffic Culture Exhibition 2016

Photography Haiku SAKURYOKAI Public Art Invited Artist Scenes Information

The Photography CategoryPhotographs for New Japan Tourism

Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Award
[Adding Colors to the Festival]NAKAGAWA TsukasaComment by KUMAKIRI Keisuke: Since this photograph’s motif is Kohata Hatamatsuri, a nationally known festival, it provides a strong sense of déjà vu and somewhat lacks in originality. However, the way it captures the light and its camera angle are so impressive in that they emphasize a sense of movement and express beauty as an image well. As it captures, in such great timing, the split second when those with colorful five-color banners just start to move, the banners and the people are presented as one single entity, making this work a spectacular photograph.
Minister of the Environment Award
[Terraced Paddy Fields at Sunrise] SAWAI YoshinoriComment by KUMAKIRI Keisuke: Terraced paddy fields in Shimoakasaka is one of the top 100 terraced paddy fields in Japan, providing a beautiful landscape for each of the four seasons. It is so picturesque as the landscape of Shimoakasaka that was the birthplace of Masashige Kusunoki. Shooting the beautifully curved lines of terraced paddy fields at sunrise with a wide-angle lens, this work presents an attractive sweep of landscape with the full-scale of what the photographer wished to show.
Kyushu Railway Company President Award
[Sentiments in Spring Farewell] MASUDA ShunjiComment by KUMAKIRI Keisuke: Photographs are obviously expected to offer great content, but the title of the work and commentary are also important elements of photography. When you read the title of this work, the photographer’s feelings and sentiments that were evoked by this scenery are clearly conveyed. The atmosphere provided by a local railway in the beautiful spring of cherry blossoms and rape flowers captured with a soft touch, providing viewers a familiar sense of comfort. A mother with a little child on her back walking on the platform of an unmanned tram station is so impressive that I am briefly transported to a different reality.
Japan Travel and Tourism Association Chairman Award
[Flying in a Group] KAKUBA KaoruComment by KUMAKIRI Keisuke: Fumishima Island in Shimane prefecture is famous as a breeding ground for Umineko, black-tailed gulls, but depending on the season, the situation changes in many ways. By sharply observing them in the midst of this ever-changing show, this photograph beautifully captured the very moment when the flying black-tailed gulls and the sea created a beautiful montage. The blue ocean, rock-breaking white waves, and the flying black-tailed gulls create a natural harmony that touches my heart. I appreciate the accuracy of the photographer’s eyes in observing nature.

First PlaceUESUGI Kazuhiko
First PlaceCHOU Yoshihide
Second PlaceTOMII Yasumitu
Second PlaceISHII Yoshiaki
Second PlaceKOJIMA Misako
Third PlaceKAJISAWA Hiroko
Third Place NISHIYAMA Hiroko
Third PlaceYANAGIYA Masateru
Third PlaceTANIGUCHI Takeko
Win a PrizeMATUSHIMA Hiroaki
Win a PrizeOZAKI Hiroshi
Win a PrizeTAKADA Yoshinari
Win a PrizeMATSUURA Tsutomu
Win a PrizeINOUE Satoru
Win a PrizeKUBOTA Osamu
Win a PrizeSUGAHARA Takuya
Win a PrizeNAKAMURA Genich
Win a PrizeKOURO Masayuki
Win a PrizeYAMAGUCHI Masashi
Win a PrizeSAITO Nobuko
Win a PrizeHIRANO Masako
Win a PrizeKURIIIHARA Shigeru
Win a PrizeTSUSHIMA Yukio
Win a PrizeTANABE Manabu
Win a PrizeNOTO Masatoshi
Win a PrizeSUKIMOTO Masahiro
Win a PrizeNAKAHODO Rieko
Win a PrizeYAMAMOTO Hisao
Win a PrizeSAITO Mitsuo
Win a PrizeYAMADA Hiroyuki
Win a PrizeYAMANAKA Tadamasa
Win a PrizeHAYASHI Hiroshi
Win a PrizeMOMOSE Yoshiyuki
Win a PrizeIIDA Hideyo
Win a PrizeASAMI Takashi

The Haiku Category

Japan Traffic Culture Association Chairman Award	[buying ticket on your tanned face I see your aspiration]	ISHII Kaori
Japan Traffic Culture Association Chairman Award	Comment by HASEGAWA Kai: What is one’s aspiration? When you buy a ticket, it is not only about where you want to go. The author must have felt she saw a passion for life on the person’s face. In that sense, this “ticket” is also a “ticket for life”. Wishing you a happy future!
First Place	[summer and me both on train traveling]	HOSOYA Kazumu
First Place	Comment by HASEGAWA Kai:This haiku is written by a junior high school student. It is a great idea that not only he but also summer is on the train. Where does the train take them? To the sea? To the mountains? Or somewhere far away, in time and space? Traveling the world with summer. This haiku offers a plethora of potential dreams.
Second Place	[last train leaving feeling summer moon in sky]	MATSUI Michiko
Third Place	[god of wind running through Ise’s green paddy fields]	OKITA Akihiko
	[summer hat travelling long journey further than me]	TODO Kunuwo
	[summer trip with only one knapsack on non-reserved seat]	KATO Yoshiaki
Win a Prize	[summer on platform with train approaching I am back to life]	NAKANISHI Momoko
	[eating Edamame comes already hakata station]	ASO Katsuyuki
	[station in hometown straighten my back summer is here]	IWANAKA Mikio
	[recommendation by station master taiyaki shop]	IWASAKI Hitomi
	[“arriving soon” first call from Shinkansen]	SOGO Kiyoshi
	[butterfly in summer one stop train ride till the sea]	YAMASHITA Nami
	[stopover after stopover my summer trip]	TAKAHASHI Naritomo
	[San-in region glimpse of ocean trip in summer]	ENOMOTO Makoto
	[following flowers four hours and two minutes further to the north]	YOSHINO Shinichi
	[wearing layers finding myself in last train]	NIKI Kazuhiko

Display of higher ranking awards of haiku

SAKURYOKAI

List of the artists who participated at SAKURYOKAI 2016

Japanese Painting

OYA Nori
KAWASAKI Asako
KAWASAKI Suzuhiko
KAWASAKI Haruhiko
KITANO Haruo
GOTO Sumio
SUZUKI Chikuhaku
NAKAJIMA Chinami
HIRAMATSU Reiji
FUKUMOTO Tatsuo
HORI Fumiko
MATSUZAKI Ryota
MIYASAKO Masaaki

Western Painting

OTSU Eibin
OHYABU Masataka
OKUTANI Hiroshi
KANAYAMA Keiko
KINUTANI Koji
SANO Nui
NAKAYAMA Tadahiko
NOMIYAMA Gyoji
FUKASAWA Takaya
Brian WILLIAMS
MIYAZAKI Shin
YAMAMOTO Tei
YOSHITAKE Kenji

Calligraphy

ISHIGE Keido
TAKAGI Seikaku

(Titles are omitted. By section, Japanese syllabary order. As of October 2016)

You can appreciate the works of celebrated artists at your leisure.

28 leading painting and calligraphy artists in Japan exhibited their new work for SAKURYOKAI 2016. These included, SUZUKI Chikuhaku, the oldest Japanese-style painting artist, and 13 other artists from this genre, NOMIYAMA Gyoji and 13 other artists specializing in Western-style painting and TAKAGI Seikaku and ISHIGE Keido representing calligraphy, exhibited.
Unfortunately, OHYABU Masataka and GOTO Sumio passed away during the Exhibition. Both had contributed to the Traffic Culture Exhibition for a long time. Our express our sincerest condolences.

Promotion of Public Art Special Exhibition

Pray for growth of the new tourism zone in the Donan area and southern Hokkaido.

We exhibit art in public places such as stations and airports to promote an enriched environment. Here we celebrated the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen on March 2016 and provided information on major public art exhibits in 6 prefectures in Tohoku and Donan in southern Hokkaido which were planned and initiated by Japan Traffic Culture Association, titled “Let’s go see art in the ‘New Tohoku Tourism Zone!!’.” Not only new public art for Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto station and Akita Airport but also for Sendai International Airport, Fukushima Airport and others that have been landmarks of the area. Also, we promoted “The Case Legislating the One Percent for Art Program” and called for sharing photos of the public art on Instagram.

Displayed promotions of the public art by our association with various examples.

The “#mypublicart” Exhibition with colorful smartphone design.

Invited Artist Public Art Exhibition

“Harvest Festival” HATTORI Haruhisa

Let a Railway Station be a Facade

The Japan Traffic Culture Association (JPTCA) requested Art Director, Mr. Hattori Haruhisa, to create public art for the Traffic Culture Exhibition 2016. The title of the work is “Harvest Festival”.

JPTCA issued a magazine called “Public Space” twice or three times a year in the 1980s and 1990s. In the special edition published in June 1990, under the theme of “Rebuilding Japanese Culture”, we interviewed well-known intellectuals. One of them was Zaha Hadid, an architect from Iraq, who was on the cover of the magazine. She is the architect whose design was once chosen for the new national stadium in Tokyo, but then it was rescinded. It is only in the 21st century that she became recognized globally, and we are rather proud of the fact that we featured her on our cover more than ten years before that. Unfortunately, she died in March of this year during a trip to the US at the age of 65.

In this magazine, Mr. Hattori brought up an interesting point, suggesting that a railway station could be a facade. “A railway station is the first place visitors see. The impression it provides affects the impression of a district. Also, a station is often situated in the center of the town. For these reasons, it needs to be the face of the town.” “With such a mindset, by using space at a station as medium, it is all about producing and presenting beauty, fun, something relating to events, something providing a sense of the season, and/or something offering a feel of history.” At that time, he was working on shop windows for WAKO in Ginza, therefore, this suggestion was very much based on his work of making a facade for Ginza. In a way, it might be appropriate to call shop windows with outstanding artistic character public art.

For 10 years until 2013, Mr.Hattori designed the four-sided shop windows of Sapporo JR Tower, each for all four seasons. This year marks the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen, and we are pleased to have Mr. Hattori’s work decorate Ueno Station, because he worked on the Sapporo JR Tower and Ueno station is like a point of departure to go to Tohoku/Hokkaido. According to Mr. Hattori, the spirit of the work is “Omotenashi” – offering visitors fun, joy, and a startling moment. Please enjoy the work with photos on panels from the time he was in Sapporo.

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HATTORI Haruhisa:
Born 1936 in the city of Shenyang, Manchurian (China). Graduated Chiba University in 1960, then joined Wako Ltd. Over 30 years, he worked on shop windows in the Ginza district in Tokyo before establishing his own design company in 2000. From 2003 to 2013, he designed the shop windows of Sapporo JR Tower. He received many awards for his work.

Mr. Haruhisa Hattori and his wife, Mrs. Rumi Fujiwara, in front of “Harvest Festival.”

“Harvest Festival” is brilliant and attracts many people. (part of the art)

The space his art was exhibited in became a popular photo spot.

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Event Information

Organized by	Public Interest Incorporated Foundation, Japan Traffic Culture Association Railway Day Executive Committee
Venue/Date	Venue: Grand Concourse, JR Ueno station Central Exit, Special Exhibition Site Date: October 16 (Sun.) – October 21 (Fri.), 2016 Admission Free
Judges – Photography Category	KUMAKIRI Keisuke (Photographer / Japan Professional Photographers Society, Chairman) / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Agency, Regional Development Department Director General / Ministry of Environment, Director of Global Environment Bureau / East Japan Railway Company, Managing Director,Railway Operations Headquarters, Deputy Director-General / Japan Travel and Tourism Association, President & CEO / Kotsu Newspapers, Managing Editor
Judges – Haiku Category	HASEGAWA Kai (Haiku Poet)
Supported by	Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism / Ministry of the Environment / Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency / The Association of Japanese Private Railways / Hokkaido Railway Company / East Japan Railway Company / Central Japan Railway Company / West Japan Railway Company / Shikoku Railway Company / Kyushu Railway Company / Japan Freight Railway Company / Railway Information Systems Co.,Ltd. / Railway Technical Research Institute / Japan Travel and Tourism Association / National Governors’ Association / Japan Association of City Mayors / National Association of Towns & Villages
Poster	Poster of calling for entries for publicly sponsored exhibition(PDF: 3.4MB) Poster of calling for entries for New Japan Tourism Photographs(PDF: 4.3MB) Poster of the Traffic Culture Exhibition 2016(PDF: 3.8MB)