My last submission for 2024 was finally being exhibited at the 41st New Year Exhibition of Sankei Sho International Association 第41回産経国際書展 新春展, so I had to find time to go take a look.
I actually made time on 26 January (Sunday) to go see the exhibition... but things did not turn out as expected. First, I made my way to Ueno to Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館), only to not see the exhibition being listed. That was when I realised I had gone to the wrong place... the exhibition was being held at The National Art Center, Tokyo (国立新美術館). Then I found that my phone had died (it was a Google Pixel 5a and the screen has gone dead, which I subsequently found out was a motherboard problem common in this model of phones) and I had no way to easily check how to get to the correct place (in Roppongi) from Ueno. In the end, I wandered around looking at some of the other exhibitions at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum before heading home.
Good thing my work schedule was empty today, so I made my way again to Tokyo, to the correct place this time.
Yes, the Sankei exhibition is listed.
The iconic restaurants, which also appeared in Shinkai Makoto's Your Name.
It was a weekday, yet there were more people than I expected.
The exhibition is mostly for members of the Sankei Sho International Association, who get to display their works in different sizes, including very big pieces.
But to meet the art museum's criteria for public exhibitions, it also accepted submissions from the general public. These submissions are smaller and cramped together like this.
This is my work, a phrase from Sun-zu's Art of War.
其疾如風、其徐如林、侵掠如火、不動如山
which means "as swift as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as fierce as fire, as unmovable as the mountain."
There were other exhibitions at the art museum too, and I roamed around one of them because it did not charge anything for admission. 😅
The 47th Exhibition of International Calligraphy and Ink Painting 第47回 國際書画展 had both calligraphy and ink paintings on display. The ink paintings were also not the plain black and white ones too. There were all kinds of colourful paintings.
They accept anything created using ink, whether words or paintings, as long as the size of the work is within 178 cm by 87 cm (or up to 238 cm by 56 cm for portrait orientation works).
Back to work on my submissions for 2025!
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