Tassel Hotel Sanjo Shirakawa Japanese Painter Isayama Hoju Solo Exhibition – The Joy of Honkadori –

[Tassel Hotel Sanjo Shirakawa] Japanese Painter Isayama Hoju Solo Exhibition – The Joy of Original Poetry – ​
Nishimatsu Estate Co., Ltd. Press Release: October 30, 2025 Japanese Painter Isayama Hoju Solo Exhibition – The Joy of Honkadori – Tassel Hotel Sanjo Shirakawa Special Exhibition Tassel Hotel Sanjo Shirakawa (Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City), operated by Nishimatsu Real Estate Co., Ltd., a member of the Nishimatsu Construction Group, will be holding a solo exhibition of Japanese painter Takaki Isayama (Emi), a graduate of Kyoto City University of Arts, in the hotel’s first-floor lounge from Saturday, November 1, 2025, to Monday, November 24, 2025 (national holiday). The exhibition will include works paying homage to Kitagawa Utamaro’s ukiyo-e print “Girl Blowing a Poppen.”
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An homage to the ukiyo-e “Girl Blowing a Poppen” Isayama Tamaju (Emi), a Japanese painter who designed the costumes for the 2024 Taiga drama “Hikaru Kimi e” and is in charge of Japanese painting instruction and set decoration for the 2025 fall semester drama “Bakeke,” studied Japanese painting at Kyoto City University of Arts, the same institution that has nurtured many great masters, including Uemura Shōen, and majored in conservation and restoration at the same university’s graduate school. She combines solid skills with a modern sensibility, and is active in a variety of fields. This time’s theme is – The joy of honkadori – Please take a look at Isayama Hoju’s captivating “beauty of lines.” ◆Overview Isayama Takaki Solo Exhibition – The Joy of Adapting Poems – [Venue] Tassel Hotel Sanjo Shirakawa, 1st floor lounge space [Event Period] Saturday, November 1, 2025 – Monday, November 24, 2025 (National Holiday) [Event Time] 11:00 – 17:00 *Guests staying at the hotel may view the exhibit at any time. [Admission Fee] Free [Organizer] Tassel Hotel Sanjo Shirakawa (Nishimatsu Estate Co., Ltd.) [Sponsor] Classics Day Promotion Committee, Japonisme Promotion Association
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/87632/30/87632-30-b52174e5c57052dbbe4b0cd060b77a96-524×349.jpg Japanese painter Taoki Isayama 〈Emi〉 ◆Profile Isayama Tamaju (Emi) *Pen name: Tamaju, real name: Emi A Japanese painter born in Osaka and currently living in Kyoto. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, majoring in Japanese painting, and completed the same
university’s graduate program in conservation and restoration. While in graduate school, he worked at Toei Kyoto Studios, creating sliding screen paintings for various period dramas. After going independent, he dedicated works to numerous Kyoto temples and shrines, including the “Kuri sliding screen painting” at Jukoin Temple, a sub-temple of Daitokuji Temple; the “Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto” (hanging scroll) at Tsubaki Grand Shrine; the “Dragon Painting (original design for shikishi)” at Kifune Shrine; and the “New Year’s Zodiac Sign (Year of the Ox) Large Ema” at Yasaka Shrine. He also served as the painter and Japanese painting instructor for the NHK morning drama “Scarlet,” broadcast in the second half of 2019. He is in charge of the costume portraits of Heian aristocrats for the 2024 NHK Taiga drama, and the original artwork for the poster of “Miyako Odori” in 2024. He is also in charge of Japanese painting instruction and set decoration for the “Bakeke” TV drama series, which will be broadcast in the latter half of 2025. He is also active in many other fields, providing his work for advertisements and other purposes, and has held numerous solo exhibitions of his own work across the country. ◆TASSEL HOTEL SANJO SHIRAKAWA [Location] 103-3 Oidecho, Sanjo-dori Shirakawabashi Nishiiri, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0022 [Access] 15 seconds walk from Exit 1 of Higashiyama Station on the Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line [Official website] https://tasselhotel.jp/kyoto-sanjo/ [TEL] 075-771-0775