[Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd.] Yokai painter Tadahei Yagyu participates! “Minoji Mononoke Street (Zero)” March 30th (Sat) – April 7th (Sun), 2024
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Press release: March 30, 2024
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Yokai painter Tadahei Yagyu participates! “Minoji Mononoke Street (Zero)” March 30th (Sat) – April 7th (Sun), 2024
*Collaborative Yokai event where shamisen players, Yokai doctors, and Yokai sculptors gather*
Yokai painter Tadahei Yagyu, who is the director of the Yokai Art Museum (Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd.) located in the “Maze Town” (Tonosho Honmachi) of Shodoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, is the director of “Minoji Base & Cafe & Gallery” in Kiyosu City, Aichi Prefecture. We will participate in the Yokai event held at Midoriya. In addition to the workshop and costume exhibition of Daitengu, played by actor and Yokai sculptor Tadashi Kato, there will also be a collaborative live painting and Yokai painting exhibition with Tadahei Yagyu accompanied by Shamisen player Tsunaho Tokiwazu playing the shamisen. etc.
[Minoji Mononoke Street (Zero)]
*Duration｜March 30, 2024 (Sat) – April 7, 2024 (Sun)*
* Time | 11:00-17:00 (until 20:00 on Saturdays and Sundays) * * Venue | Minoji Base & Cafe & Gallery Midoriya *
* 67 Nishiwajima-cho, Kiyosu City, Aichi Prefecture*
* TEL｜070-1674-0055*
* Mail ｜midoriya.art@gmail.com*
* ■Yokai Picture Exhibition *
・Exhibition of monster paintings by monster painter Tadahira Yagyu (free admission)
・Yokai-style portrait (3,000 yen each | Required time: approximately 15 minutes)
* ■Youkai life-size picture book *
・Yokaisu Doro: Exhibition of Yokai modeling by Tadashi Kato (Admission fee: 300 yen, free for children)
[Great Tengu-sama’s workshop]
・March 31st (Sunday) 11:00~ Let’s make a lantern that lights up in seven different colors (700 yen, 10 people)
14:00 – Let’s draw a monster fan (500 yen, 10 people)
・4/2 (Tue) 11:00~ Yokai 7-color lantern (700 yen, 10 people) ・4/7 (Sunday) 11:00~ Let’s make a glowing ghost lantern (1000 yen, 10 people) 14:00 ~ Yokai 7-color lantern (700 yen, 10 people)
* ■ Live painting of Yokai paintings by Tsunaho Tokiwazu and Yokai painter Tadahira Yagyu *
(Viewing fee: 2,000 yen, one drink included)
・4/6 (Sat) 18:00~, 4/7 (Sun) 16:00~
* ■Youkai Questions Corner by Yokai Doctor Naoyuki Shimada * ・3/31 (Sunday) 13:00~ Question corner for children by a monster doctor ・April 6th (Sat) 17:00 – Question corner for adults by a monster doctor * Yokai Painter/Director of Yokai Museum | Tadahei Yagyu*
A monster painter born in Shodoshima. Graduated from Takarazuka University of Art and Design in 1998 and worked at Kano Shojuan, where he was involved in designing promotional packages for Japanese sweets. 2005 Illustrator Declaration. I am currently engaged in the production of yōkai manufacturing equipment that creates Chimi Mōryō. In addition to holding solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Takamatsu, Kyoto, etc., he has also participated in solo exhibitions and art book fairs in Taiwan. “Yokai caricatures,” which draw people’s inner thoughts while interacting with them, are also popular. He also served as a judge for the “Yokai Art Award,” a contest for yokai sculptures, and in February 2018, he became the director of the “Yokai Art Museum,” which was established with the aim of making Shodoshima the island with the most yokai in the world.
2017 Solo exhibition “Yokai Picture Book Matsurouwanu Monotachi” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery) Solo exhibition “Yokai Picture Book Exhibition” (Taiwan)
Actively engages in creative activities and holds exhibitions, including the solo exhibition “Yokai Manufacturing Device” (Denenjo City Gallery) (Kyoto Hall). 2019 Solo Exhibition “Yagyu Tadahei Yokai Picture Book” (Roppongi
Striped House Gallery)
In the summer of 2019, he was invited by the International Art Center in Noyer, France to stay and create for about two months. A collection of 30 works is on permanent display. 2020 solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book” (Roppongi
Striped House Gallery) and others
Born in Shodoshima, Kagawa Prefecture
Started working as a yokai painter (illustration demon) in 2005 Became director of the Yokai Museum in 2018
Biography 2015~2022 (2014 and earlier are omitted)
2016 Solo exhibition “Kakure Shiri” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery) 2017 Solo exhibition “Yokai picture book Matsurowanumono” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery)
Solo exhibition “Yokai Picture Exhibition” (Taiwan City Gallery) Solo exhibition “Yokai Manufacturing Device” (Kyoto, Kyoto) 2018 Solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery)
Solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book” (Sora Yanaka) 2019 Solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery)
Special exhibition “Asuke Hyaku Monogatari” (Suzuya, Asuke-cho, Toyota City)
AIR “Encounter” (France Noyers La Porte Peinte)
2020 Solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery)
Solo exhibition “The connections that Mononoke and others connect” (Kimonoan Nago, Tsuruga City)
Group exhibition “Hyakki Yagyo” (Kyobashi Maison de Neko) 2021 Solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book Cat-Eyed Moon” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery)
Group exhibition “Hyakki Yagyo” (Kyobashi Maison de Neko) “Cats and Yokai ~Another World Picture Book~” (Kyobashi Maison de Neko)
2022 Solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book: Nekomata Story” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery)
Group exhibition “Hyakki Yagyo” (Kyobashi Maison de Neko) 2023 Solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery)
Special exhibition “Minoji Mononoke Street (tentative)”
(cafe&gallery MIDORIYA, Kiyosu City, Aichi Prefecture)
Special Exhibition “Yokai Exhibition” (Hosotsuji Ihei Museum, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture)
Group exhibition “Utopia of Heresy and Mystery” (Tokyo Kyobashi Span Art Gallery)
Group exhibition “Hyakki Pilgrimage” (Maison de Neko, Kyobashi, Tokyo) Madada Yokai” (Tokyo Edogawabashi Soyoya Edobata) 2024 Solo exhibition “Yagyu Tadahira Yokai Picture Book” (Roppongi Stripe House Gallery)
As a “illustrator,” my view of yokai is undergoing a major transformation as I spend time interacting with yokai. In the past, monsters were something I admired and a way to express myself. If anything, the monsters were vessels for my imagination, where I could express my thoughts related to art and have them act out on my behalf. However, now, in response to the voices of invisible “things” calling out to me, I feel that my mission is to use a single brush from head to toe and continue to draw the forms of monsters. ing.
And that is the bliss of joy for me as a painter. If you were to ask me what the meaning behind the act of drawing monsters is, I wouldn’t be able to find the answer. Is the genre of yokai paintings of any use in today’s civilized society? I do not know. However, what I intuitively understand is that we must not eliminate the existence of invisible things from the culture of this archipelago where we live today. I just wanted to give these endangered species a visual form in the form of illustrations so that people could feel their presence in their daily lives. I’m longing.
* [What is Yokai Museum] *
An art museum located in the labyrinth town of Shodoshima in Kagawa Prefecture that exhibits over 900 monster sculptures. Tour four old folk houses scattered throughout the town using a smartphone guide app. We exhibit and store over 900 works submitted to the Yokai Art Award, from the origins of Yokai to modern Yokai. “Bringing yokai to the world” We want to make “yokai” a global word similar to “mottainai.” The director is Tadahei Yagyu, a monster painter born in Shodoshima.
Yokai Museum 398 Ko, Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, Kagawa 0879-62-0221 mail@meipam.net * [What is Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd.] *
MeiPAM engages in olive cultivation and research, development and manufacturing of cosmetics and foods, mail order sales, etc. in Setouchi and Shodoshima.
Joint management of the Shodoshima Maze Town Art Project. Planning, promotion, and operation of regional revitalization projects. Company name: Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd.
Location: 2721-1 Ko, Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, Kagawa Prefecture Representative Director and President: Toshihiro Yagyu
Established: 1985
HP: https://shl-olive.co.jp/
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