Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art

Winter Exhibition

Winter Exhibition
Woodblock Rake

December 19 (Tue) to March 31 (Sun), 2024
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed: Mondays (Holidays and 1/22, 29 to be opened)
December 29 thru Jan 1

Munakata earnestly kept on carving over almost half a century. In his autobiography, “Woodblock Rake”, he recollects that he has made his own words in life as print-artist, just tracing Saneatsu Mushano-koji’s words “Only this course fulfills my life, so I walk along forward.” Munakata made every effort to break fixed method in print-art and to raise its standing position in manner of coloring, plurality in printing and its huge size, and therefore he can enjoy his drawings, paintings, his unique calligraphy and other productions as well. The well-known documentary film “Engraving! Munakata’s World” concludes his whole life at the end, “Neither beginning nor end in this world. No problems! Perpetuation!” All art-works in Munakata’s lifetime are to be exhibited in Winter segment.

Displayed Works, in the main.

Wind God from The Pantheon of the Gandavyuha-sutra
Woodblock 1936

December―Two Tombstones and Gods of the Four Directions From The Changes of Nature in Twelve Months
Woodblock 1955

Munakata’s cousin, “Chutaro”’s Neputa-Doll Float
Drawing 1972

Early Winter
Oil Painting 1924