Ogura Atsushi Platinum Boy Houmongi 「Spring and Autumn」
Shibori and Tsujigahana
Ogura Atushi 77th Anniversary Exhibiton
Shibori, has been passed down through generations in Japan and has spread throughout the world, still holding great potential for expression today.
I am pleased to announce that this solo exhibition marks a turning point at the age of 77 (an auspcious celebration in Japan). The exhibition will showcase works, with a focus on tsujigahana and its evolution. I hope you will enjoy seeing the new colors and forms of expression.
I feek this may be one of the last of my big exhibitons, so I look forward to seeing and talking to everybody who comes to the event.
Ogura Atsushi
Gallery Talk
(Japanese Only)
Saturday March 9th 10-11am
Ginza Motoji Waori Wasen
Exhibited Items; Talk in Detail
(Japanese Only)
Sunday March 10th from 2-2.30pm
Ginza Motoji Waori Wasen
Meet the Artist
Ogura Atsushi will be instore from 11 to 6 on Saturday the 9th, and from 11 to 4 on Sunday the 10th.
About Ogura Atsushi
While thinking of the wearer,
I try to create Tsujigahana for the contemporary world.
The Ogura family has been credited for reviving the Tsujigahana Style, a dyeing technique that flourished in the Azuchi-Momoyama period but suddenly died out in the Edo period.
At the age of 29, Atsushi Ogura was awarded his first prize at the Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition.
He is now considered a leading expert in Tsujigahana dyeing, and has achieved a wide range of restorations, including the haori and kosode of Tokugawa Ieyasu, which are in the collections of the Tokugawa Art Museum and the Kyoto National Museum.
As he says, "Colour is emotion, form is reason", and wearing his work feels as if one is bathing in the beauty of the patterns dyed delicately into the silk.
Ginza Motoji: solo exhibitions in 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020.
2015 35th anniversary exhibition
2020 40th anniversary exhibition
Work for this exhibiton by Ogura Atsushi
Shibori Houmongi「Spring and Autumn」
Shibori Kyusun Nagoya Obi「Butterfly in the Briars」