Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art

120th Anniversary of Munakata’s Birth Memorial Exhibition

120th Anniversary of Munakata’s Birth Memorial Exhibition
Friendship-and-Trust Drawings on Sliding-and-Folding Screens

June 20 (Tue) to September 18 (Mon)
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed: 7/31,9/4,11
Admission Free: September 13, as the Anniversary of his death

Munakata was blessed with numerous friends and supporters in life. He was helped by comrades in literary circles and members in folk-art-and-craft society and economically, by business leaders. He was also supported to earn his living and to expand good relationship in miscellaneous ways. In proof of such reliable contacts, the drawings exist on sliding-and-folding screens in the inner part of private homes, which is also a result of the bond of reliance between Munakata and his clients. This 120th Memorial Exhibition held in Munakata Museum is a worthy event of firstly opening in Aomori to the public <Shoals of Scarlet Carps>, originally decorated in folding-screen at the Ohara Family in the City of Kurashiki. In the venue of Munakata Memorial Museum, a broad relationships. of friends and supporters are to be introduced, in connection with other artworks, effecting to Munakata’s art activities.

Displayed Works, in the main.

Carps
Drawing 1940

Peony on the screen
Drawing 1965
Owned by OKADA Cultural Foundation Paramita Museum

Bracing Autumn Air from In Praise of the Blazing Sun
(Compositions on YASUDA Yojuro’s tanka)
Woodblock 1963

Hawks
Drawing 1960
(Deposited)