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July 18 to November 13, 2024
- Masaki Sai: Satoyama, and Railway Story
- Junzo Yotsuda and Emiko Yuguchi: Father-Daughter Exhibition—Snow and Roses
- Masterworks in Our Collection—The Sparkling World of Nihonga
Masaki Sai: Satoyama, and Railway Story
This exhibition of Sai’s work comprises gentle scenes and penetrating poetic sentiments that have given healing perspectives and the courage to live to many people. In this, our fifth exhibition of the artist, we showcase many of Sai’s representative works, including those in the museum’s collection, and those from the Toho Bank collection. Featured works include depictions of the railway landscape that is part of people’s lives and Japan’s beautiful satoyama countryside with a focus on a large-scale work painted after the Fukushima earthquake, with prayers for recovery, and works from “Fukushima Railway Story,” currently being serialized in Fukushima Minpo. Also presented are his latest works on Hakone, such as those on Lake Ashi and the Hakone Tozan Train.
Masaki Sai 1966–
Born in Fukushima Prefecture. Undergraduate and graduate school studies in Nihonga, Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2003, he becomes first Nihonga artist to receive the Showa-kai Award (Nichido Gallery). With heartfelt memories of his father, a locomotive engineer, Sai composes rural landscapes with railways and casual everyday scenes. He has held numerous solo exhibitions at art museums, department stores, and galleries across the country. In addition to undertaking a package design as an art advisor for Ryoguchiya Korekiyo, Sai’s works have been used for many corporate calendars, including for Toho Bank. Since 2011, he has been serializing “Fukushima Railway Story” in Fukushima Minpo. Since 2021, he has served as a judge for the “E to Kotoba no Chikara-ten (Power of Pictures and Words Exhibition)” as a symbol artist.
![Fukushima Monogatari—Togenkyo 59 no Negai (Fukushima Story—Wishes of 59 Heavenly Cities, Towns and Villages), detail, 180.0 x 600.0 cm, 2019, Toho Bank Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_1_1.jpg)
![Yoru no Mori no Sakura – Wonderful World (Cherry Blossoms in Night Forest – Wonderful World), 130.3 x 193.9 cm, 2022, Narukawa Art Museum Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_1_2.jpg)
![Tsutsuji to Wakaba to Kaizokusen (Azalea and Young Leaves with a Pirate Ship), 90.9 x 72.7 cm, 2023, Narukawa Art Museum Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_1_3.jpg)
Junzo Yotsuda and Emiko Yuguchi: Father-Daughter Exhibition—Snow and Roses
We present this father-daughter exhibition of Junzo Yotsuda, who depicts majestic yet tranquil snowy pagodas, and Emiko Yuguchi, known for her vivifying paintings of roses that maintain a sense of Western essence. Yuguchi grew up watching her grandfather and father, both Nihonga painters, and after foregoing being a musician, pursued a career in Nihonga. This exhibition, which focuses on Yotsuda’s masterpieces submitted to Inten Exhibitions and Yuguchi’s new work, is a compelling show of contrast between radiant monochrome snowy landscapes and vivid, passionate roses.
Junzo Yotsuda (1928–2010)
Born in Tokyo, third son of Nihonga artist Kansui Yotsuda. Graduates in Nihonga, Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Studies under Togyu Okumura. For over 30 years, Yotsuda produced landscapes of pagodas in the snow that evoked a sublime spirituality, based on careful sketches made during harsh winters, exhibiting them at the Inten Exhibitions. He also showed at the Kojinkai and Setagaya Art Exhibition every year. He was a tokutai (special treatment)-status member of the Japan Art Academy. His works were purchased by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs six times, and they also are in the collections of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and others. He passed away at age 82.
Emiko Yuguchi 1960–
Born in Tokyo, eldest daughter of Nihonga artist Junzo Yotsuda. From an early age, she aimed to become a violinist, but gave up music after severe hearing loss to pursue fine art. Graduates from Joshibi University of Art and Design in 1984, majoring in Japanese painting. In the same year her work was selected for the Spring Inten Exhibition for the first time, and studies under Togyu Okumura. Selected for the Tokyo Central Museum Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition and the Shouhaku Art Museum Kacho-ga Exhibition, among others, her works have been appeared primarily in solo exhibitions at department stores and galleries across Japan, as well as used for corporate calendars, including for Shiseido. In 2019, she produced and dedicated her sliding-door and wall paintings to Konjozan Kushiin Rendaiji Temple. Yuguchi is currently unaffiliated with any artist circle.
![Right: Hagurosan (Mt. Haguro) by Junzo Yotsuda, 218.0 x 174.5 cm, 1996, 81st Inten Exhibition Left: Sanjorudi no Hi (Day of Saint Jordi) by Emiko Yuguchi, 90.9 x 60.6 cm, 2024 Both from the Narukawa Art Museum Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_2_1.jpg)
![Arcadia by Emiko Yuguchi, 112.0 x 280.0 cm, 2023, Narukawa Art Museum Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_2_3.jpg)
![To (Murou-ji) (Pagoda, Murou-ji Temple) by Junzo Yotsuda, 213.1 x 172.3 cm, 1974, 59th Inten Exhibition, Narukawa Art Museum Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_2_4.jpg)
Masterworks in Our Collection—The Sparkling World of Nihonga
This signature exhibition of works from our Narukawa Art Museum collection showcases works by Kyujin Yamamoto, Eizo Kato, Kaii Higashiyama, Yasushi Sugiyama, Yoshihiko Yoshida, Fumiko Hori, Matazo Kayama, Ikuo Hirayama, Susumu Maki, Somei Tsubouchi, Reiji Hiramatsu, Hirohiko Hiraiwa, Toshihiko Maemoto, Takeshi Ushio, Rieko Morita, Shohei Takahashi, and Yasuhiro Shiba.
![Ike ni Momiji (Pond with Maple Leaves) by Reiji Hiramatsu, 65.2 x 90.9 cm, 2013, Narukawa Art Museum Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_3_1.jpg)
![Tanada no Tsuki (Moon Over Rice Terraces) by Takeshi Ushio, 80.3 x 116.7 cm, 2006, Narukawa Art Museum Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_3_2.jpg)
![Nozen Kazura (Trumpet Vine) by Toshihiko Maemoto, 72.7 x 90.9 cm, 2000, Narukawa Art Museum Collection](/en/exhibition/img/img_ongoing_3_3.png)