[Kyoto Exhibition]
Date and time: April 8th (Fri) - May 10th (Tue) 12:00-18:00 Closed Wednesdays and Thursdays *Open on public holidays
Venue Atelier Shimura Shop & Gallery Kyoto Main Store Gallery Atelier Shimura 251-2 Kotobuki Building 2F, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture 600-8018
Inquiry tel: 075-585-5953 email: info@ateliershimura.co.jp

[Tokyo, Seijo Traveling Exhibition]
Date and time: June 3rd (Friday) to June 14th (Tuesday) 11:00-17:00 (closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays) Venue: Atelier Shimura Shop & Gallery, Seijo, Tokyo 2-20-7 Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Inquiry tel: 03-6411-1215　mail: info@ateliershimura.co.jp

* June 4th (Sat) 14:00-17:00 Mr. Shinji Yamamuro will be present at the gallery. You can also talk about his work, so please take this opportunity to come.

This special exhibition will feature works by printmaker Shinji Yamamuro. Yamamuro is an artist who combines a deep admiration for nature hidden within the soft texture unique to potato prints with a sharpness that approaches the essence. He is also close friends with Fukumi Shimura, and the books they have produced together to date are diverse, including "The Story of Princess Misa."

This time, we will be exhibiting and selling "U-san," a bound collection of Kawakami Nissha's senryu poems, along with the original illustrations, and framed copies of the original illustrations. We hope you will enjoy the world of senryu poems, brought to life in a rich and colorful way by Yamamuro's prints. Please come and have a look.

<Exhibition contents> Framing, binding, original drawings

Yamamuro Shinji was born in Yokohama in 1939. He graduated from Yokohama City University. After working for the Ministry of Construction (now the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) and other organizations, he currently heads the Shinjusan Koubou. He produces sweet potato prints and designs and produces books. His works include "Breezes" (Ito Kaihiko, Yukawa Shoten), "The Tale of Princess Misa" (Shimura Fukumi, Kyuryudo), "Seasonal Winds" (Sogetsu, Sogetsu Cultural Enterprises), "Mountain Natural History" (Mountain Books, Hakusan Shobo), "Potato Prints" (Kyuryudo), and illustrations and illustrated text for the sweet potato prints of "Haiku and Poetry" (Asahi Shimbun).

Kawakami Nissha (1887-1959) His real name was Kawakami Ujiro. He was born as the third son of Awaya, a sugar wholesaler in Senba (West Dotonbori), Osaka. He was the older brother of Ono Yutaka, mother of Shimura Fukumi. He was a leading writer of the emerging senryu movement who continued to wander his whole life. He was a member of Hayaya, the first senryu magazine in Kansai, founded by Kojima Rokurinbo in 1906. Hayaya attracted a number of distinguished members, including Nishida Tohyaku, Kimura Hanmonsen, and Aso Michiro. His books include Nissha Kushu (1933 Senryu Sosho Kankokai, 1956 Bankasa Senryu Bunko), and his representative works include "Tea comes out of the earthenware teapot, and a few lies come out too."

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