The 76th Mainichi Shodo Exhibition (第76回毎日書道展) spans two venues: The National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT) in Roppongi, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno. On display at NACT are the works by members of the Mainichi Shodo Association (including the organising committee of the Mainichi Shodo Exhibition) as well as winning works from the selected public submissions. The selected public submissions that did not win any prize or award are displayed at regional exhibitions, which for the Kanto area, takes place at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Starting from this year, submissions from Toyama, Ishikawa, and Fukui Prefectures will be subsumed under the Tokyo exhibition too.
Last year, I went to see the exhibition at NACT, then Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. This year, as the calligraphy demonstration at NACT will be on 26 July 2025, I decided to go see the pieces on display at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (from 18 to 24 July 2025) first. I had submitted a work again this year, but it was not selected. 😢
The entry to the museum is at B1, and the exhibition covered all 3 floors from B1 to the 2nd floor. You enter from B1, where display area 1 is, and then make you way through the rooms/areas, then move up to the next floor, repeat the process, and then up another floor and repeat again.
My purpose this time was to see the works on display to get some hints on what to aim for, although the ones at NACT would be a better guide (of course, since those are the winning works). Anyway, I took some photos for future reference.
I already have a rough idea what phrase I want to write next year, but I
will need to think a bit more on how to present it. Maybe even change
to something else along the way. Or switch my approach. For the past two
years, I selected a phrase, then worked on it for months. Maybe I
should instead have a few candidate phrases, work on them in parallel,
and finally spend the final month working on a "finalist"... But first,
let me finish working on my pieces for Onchikai Shodo Exhibition 温知会書道展
and The New Year Exhibition of Sankei Sho International Association
産経国際書展新春展.
My submission (not selected)
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