Tenmyouya Hisashi’s exhibition “Rhyme Ⅱ” opens on October 22 at Mizuma Art Gallery. In the previous “Rhyme” exhibition (Mizuma Art Gallery), Tenmyouya impressed the audience with a stunning array of paintings inspired by both western and Japanese cavalry images, and an installation of a red-tinted Zen garden. Coming two years later, this next solo show basically shares the same underlying concept, and may be considered as a sequel in terms of displayed works. Featured here in addition to the two-dimensional Brutal is a wood-carved tower made based on Tenmyouya’s sketches by a danjiri (wooden cart) sculptor specializing in danjiri for the Kishiwada Danjiri Festival. The lineup of visually and stylistically eccentric works transforms the venue into a glamorous, special kind of place. Also exhibited in a separate room is Neo jigoku gokuraku zu (Neo picture of Buddhists’ hell and paradise), a painting that sparked a controversy right after the beginning of this year.