shadows

shadows
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Hara Museum of Contemporary Art:
www.haramuseum.or.jp/

This museum, built in 1938, was originally a house of a wealthy businessman, Mr Hara.

shadows

shadows
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art:
www.haramuseum.or.jp/

This museum, built in 1938, was originally a house of a wealthy businessman, Mr Hara.

Hara Museum

Hara Museum
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

It's a Sony

It's a Sony
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

At the front yard gallery (?) of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.

An old SONY Trinitron Colour TV. Probably from the 1980s. We have almost forgot this type of TV. We even don't remember how to switch this on. Only after I thought for a while, I remembered I used to pull and push the knob. (I'm stupid the knob is out of the frame.)

This was placed just behind the Pink Telephone. While a pay phone was usually put outside a building, an outside TV is unusual.

Pink

Pink
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

At the front yard gallery (?) of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.

This kind of public telephone (Pink Telephone) has now long gone... 20 years or so. Basically the artist put these "useless" objects there, probably to remind people of their "long-gone" recent past.

Of this kind of feeling, we use the word なつかしい [na-tsu-ka-shi-i].

And this "piece of art" looks very ironic to me. A なつかしい telephone from the 1970s or 1980s that doesn't work any more and has retired can make "a piece of art" in a museum's front yard. Not so on the street, but after seeing this at the museum, you'd feel somewhat different when you see this pink pay-phone on the street. This is how art can make a difference, I suppose...

catalogue

catalogue
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2000 yen. a good buy.

the exhibition was this

the exhibition was this
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ART OF THE JAPANESE POSTCARD.
held in Tokyo until 12 December ...

Sadly enough, these beautiful cards are not in Japan now, but in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.

another poster on site 2

another poster on site 2
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

left: a female student

middle: a dog (by Sugiura Hisui)

you see a distinct influence from art-noubeau on the left one. In the middle is a work of Sugiura Hisui, one of the top designer at the time (about a hundred years ago).

another poster on site

another poster on site
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

printed on fabric.

left: a snob (about a hundred years ago)

right: beach, by Sugiura Hisui

poster on site (closer look)

poster on site (closer look)
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poster on site

poster on site
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poster on the pillar

poster on the pillar
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at the National Postal Museum (Tei-park). The poster is for this special exhibition.

exhibition signboard

exhibition signboard
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In mid-October, I visited a museum. An impressing one with more than 100 drawings by the artist, who also was a poet.

into the museum...

into the museum...
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rouge

rouge
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This red is made out of Beni-Bana (rouge plant; actually it's safflower). There is a tiny museum on Yasukuni-dori Street in Kanda-Jinbo-cho area. Worth a visit.