Despite its world-leading visitor numbers to art museums, in comparison to Europe and America there still remain an extremely small number of art collectors in Japan. For a great many people, art is "something you look at".

However, a great number of art collectors buy hundreds of artworks, living a life with art. Why purchase artworks? From individual and group collections, a door will open to a way of "living with art" as yet unfamiliar to us.

Participating Artists & Groups
hiroko Ishinabe + One Piece Club, Satoshi Okada, Takayuki Kashiwagi,
Fumio Kawakami, Osamu Kajitani, Keiko Kadota, sagacho archives, Toshiharu Shiori,
Akio Shin, Tadao Suzuki, Tadao Suzuki, Keita Sumiyoshi, Ryuichi Takeuchi,
Tomoko Takeuchi, Hideo Tanaka, Go Nakagawa, Atsuhi Hashimoto, Yuji Hayashi,
Naoki Hayashi, Takeshi Himemoto, Toshikazu Fusawa, Shinichi Hosoda,
Kazuhiko Yamashita, Minoru Watanabe

Courtesy of 3331 Arts Chiyoda

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collector: Takeshi Himemoto
Artist: Yasuhiro Fujiwara