■Tokyo Designers Week
The biggest designing event in Japan was held in Tokyo from October 28th to November 3rd. A number of events were held mostly in Aoyama and Harajuku, but also in Roppongi, Shinjuku, Daikanyama and the other 23 districts of Tokyo. Some of biggest ones were “Tokyo Designers Week”, “Design Tide Tokyo”, and “Design Touch”.

This is the 25th anniversary of the event mainly held at the outer garden of the Meiji Shrine. It was held as “The Exhibition of Designs for Life and Environment”. Those who exhibited were firms, students, artists, and designers.

The exhibition hall was designed by Gwenael Nicholas. Blue is the main color in order to give a perspective to see the sky and sea as one earth.

During the exhibition, there was a section for “Cool Japan” due to the conference over the topic.

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Sharaku has attracted people’s attention since a German art scholar Julius Kurth published his book “SHARAKU” in 1910. Sharaku is known as a mysterious Ukiyoe master for he was only active for 10 months and his date of birth or when he died still remains unknown.
Tokyo National Museum will hold an exhibition of Sharaku between April 5th and May 15th, 2011. Sharaku left approximately 150 works in 10 months of his active career, and 140 of his works (170 prints in pieces) are to be displayed. Visitors can enjoy almost all of Sharaku’s works. It is unlikely for a museum to hold an exhibition of this scale.

Let me explain the outline of this exhibition.

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