《Decorated dolls for the Kanmachi Festival Cart “Gongsung Sheng” and “Winged Dragon”》
The exhibition has ended.
Digital × Hokusai ［The Climax］ part2
A Genuine Painter - The Path to Creativity and
Innovation
- Dates
- November 9, 2024 (Sat) - March 30, 2025 (Sun)
* Closed: Mondays (If Monday is a holiday, then Tuesday), the year-end and New Year Holidays (December 28 to January 3), Maintenance Day (February 9) - Hours
- 11:00 - 18:00 (Admission until 30 minutes before closing)
＊Open until 20:00 on February 22nd(Sat), 23rd(Sun), 24th(Mon), March 1st(Sat), 2nd(Sun), 8th(Sat) and 9th(Sun)
(Admission until 30 minutes before closing) - Venue
- NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery E Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404, Japan 2 minutes’ walk from Hatsudai Station East Exit on the Keio New Line
- Admission Fee
- Adults, University Students 1,000 (800) Yen
* Rates shown in parentheses are for groups of more than 14 persons.
* For groups of more than 14 persons, please register at least two weeks in advance of the desired date of visit using contact form on the ICC website. After that time, please call the ICC toll-free number ( 0120-144199 ※Japanese only ) instead of making reservations on this website.
* Please check the "Group Reservations" section of the ICC website before making a reservation.
Admission free: Disabled persons and their attendants / Persons 65 years and older / High school students and younger (proof-required), persons who have an ‘ICC annual Passport’
* Discount Information
- Inquiries
- e-mail bunka-ml@east.ntt.co.jp
Phone 0120-114677 ( Recorded user guide ※Japanese only )
Event Outline
《Decorated dolls for the Kanmachi Festival Cart “Gongsung Sheng” and “Winged Dragon”》
From the age of ninety my style
of painting should change, and further reform this path when I reach one
hundred years old.
All of you who are going to live as long as I
do, I hope you will see that my words are not wrong.
“On the Use of Coloring” Vol. 1 postscript (1848)
“If only Heaven had given me five more years of
life, I could have been a genuine painter.”
Hokusai's Last Words from “Biography of Katsushika Hokusai,” Iijima Kyoshin,
Hosukaku, 1893
It is said that Hokusai left these words at the end of his life.
Here, Hokusai used the term “painter” instead of “artisan.” During the Edo
period, there was a clear distinction between “artisan” employed by the
shogunate and private “painters.” The fact Hokusai chose to describe his
lifelong goal as a “painter” rather than an “artisan,” perhaps reflects his
strong determination to rely solely on his own abilities throughout his life, to
carve his own path with just his own skills, and to paint and create freely.
This exhibition looks back on Hokusai’s life in the art world and introduces the
path of innovation he followed in his later years, focusing on the four festival
cart ceiling paintings he left behind in Obuse, and the festival cart
decorations, which are said to be the only three-dimensional work he was
involved in creating in his lifetime. We invite you to experience the world that
Hokusai was trying to create as a true painter through high-resolution
reproductions and 3D digital applications that faithfully reproduce the details
of the original works.
- Organizer
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation
- Planning and operation
- NTT ArtTechnology Corporation
- Supervisor
- Iwao Kubota (President, Ars Techne Co.)
- Planning cooperation
- Tsugio Ichimura (Director, The Hokusai-kan Museum)
- Cooperation
- Ars Techne Co., The Hokusai-kan Museum, Gansho-in Temple, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum, The Nitori Culture Foundation, Goolight Co., Ltd.
About Theater ▶Schedule
Screening at ICC Theater during the exhibition.
Related project : Display of “Phoenix” ceiling painting in the main hall of Ganshoin Temple
NTT East, Hatsudai
Head Office Building, 1st floor lobby
A
high-resolution reproduction of the painting at 1/2 scale is on display.
[Period] Now on display (until Friday, March 28, 2025) Weekdays 10:00 -
17:00
* The exhibition period may be extended.
[Location] NTT East, Hatsudai Head Office Building
3-19-2
Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-8019, Japan
《“Phoenix” ceiling painting in the main hall of Ganshoin
Temple》Ganshoin Temple
