List of the artists who participated at SAKURYOKAI 2017

Japanese Painting

• ISHIODORI Tatsuya
• UTOO Sei
• OYA Nori
• KAWASAKI Asako
• KAWASAKI Suzuhiko
• KAWASAKI Haruhiko
• KITANO Haruo
• SUZUKI Chikuhaku
• NAKAJIMA Chinami
• HIRAMATSU Reiji
• FUKUMOTO Tatsuo
• HORI Fumiko
• MATSUZAKI Ryota
• MIYASAKO Masaaki

Western Painting

• OTSU Eibin
• 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

(Titles are omitted. By section, Japanese syllabary order. As of October 2017)

“SAKURYOKAI”, the exhibition of new work by Japan’s leading artists for both painting and calligraphy, invited anew two Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) artists.
Mr. Tatsuya Ishiodori has had his atelier in Paris for a long time and has crafted Nihonga in a modern spirit with his perspective from abroad of Japanese history and tradition. Mr. Sei Utoo has been teaching at Kyoto University of Education and is well known for his paintings of the Asuka area landscape and its birds.
The exhibition enjoyed a larger display area than usual. Fourteen Nihonga artists including the above newly participated artists, twelve Western painting artists including Mr. Hiroshi Okutani who received the Order of Culture, and a calligraphy artist Mr. Keidou Ishige for a total of twenty seven artists exhibited in SAKURYOKAI representing a variety of styles and schools.

Our association promoted our forty five year history of public art activities and efforts to realize the “the One Percent For Art Program” and our hope to “Transform the place where people gathered, a heart-warming one” with public art work. 524 public art works that we planned and coordinated were displayed on a map of Japan. And we promoted a stained glass art work, ‘The Creation of the Universe’ (1972), which was the first public art installed in Tokyo station; a ceramic relief, ‘Utopia’ installed in Fukushima Airport; a ceramic relief by comic artist, Mr. Katsuhiro Otomo, installed in Sendai Airport and the latest public art “ ‘Aogaki (Green Persimmon)’ Resonance of Color and Shape” installed in Oita Airport. We also promoted the profiles of the artists who created the original paintings. As well as posts of the art on Instagram, too.

Artist comment

When I make iron sculpture, every time I heat iron, welding and cutting it
When the iron take heat, it glows like platinum as the sun,
and a snappy fire sparkled.
After while the fire is extinguished, I see the red color like evening sunlight
inside the iron.
Every time when I make sculpture, I feel that iron is a semitransparent metal
Glass melt like iron, embrace light and transparent.
But it has color.
Red,blue,green, gold color let the light pass through well.
How beautiful the color is!
Among the various colors, I made blue color’s sculpture,
like return to the sky, go back to the water.