Special Exhibition Commemorating a Decade since the Yamatane Museum of Art Opened in Hiroo:
Yamatane Museum of Art NIHONGA AWARD: Seed 2019
― Meet the Future of Nihonga ―

10 August (Sat.) – 23 August (Fri.) 2019
(Closed on August 13 and 19)

Hours:10 am - 5 pm (Last admission at 4:30 pm)

Admission Fees: 700 [500] yen; university and high school students: 500 [300] yen; middle school and younger children: free of charge
*Figures in brackets are for groups of 20 or more, advance tickets, repeaters with used tickets, those who are wearing kimono.
*Disability ID holders and one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge.

Organized by: Yamatane Museum of Art
With the support of: The Agency for Cultural Affairs, The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and The Yomiuri Shimbun
Sponsored by: Seiko Holdings Corporation
With the cooperation from: Yanaka Tokuouken

Highlights of the Exhibition

Yamatane Museum of Art NIHONGA AWARD: Seed 2019 prize-winning works: 44 paintings, including the winners of the Grand Prize, Prize for Excellence, the Special Prize (Presented by Seiko Holdings Corporation) (one painting each), and the Encouragement Prize (five paintings).

Yamatane Museum of Art NIHONGA AWARD: Seed 2019

The Grand Prize: Yasuhara Shigemi, Japanese Big-Leaf Magnolia After Rain, 2019
The Prize for Excellence: Aoki Hideaki, Emus—Flightless Birds, 2019
The Special Prize (Presented by Seiko HoldingsCorporation): Kondō Mamoru, Nostalgie, 2019

The Encouragement Prize:	Egawa Naoya, Standing Quietly in a Snowfield, 2019
	Kitagawa Akiko, A New World, 2019
	Toyama Makoto, Lokadhātu (The World System), 2019
	Nagaoka Ikumi, Blue Thoughts Night Dream, 2019
	Mori Mei, Enjoying Each Other's Company, 2019

Joint exhibit: 6 works
Attributed to Tosa Mitsuyoshi, Pine Tree and Autumn Plants, Color on Gold-Leafed Paper, Edo Period, 17th Century, Yamatane Museum of Art
Ike no Taiga, Landscape, Ink and Light Color on Paper, Edo Period, 1745, Yamatane Museum of Art
Sakai Hōitsu, Autumn Plants and Quails [Important Art Object], Color on Gold-Leafed Paper, Edo Period, 19th Century, Yamatane Museum of Art
Mori Tetsuzan, Rabbits, Color on Silk, Edo Period, 19th Century, Yamatane Museum of Art
Kanō Eigaku, Pheasant, from Pheasant and Little Cuckoo , Color on Silk, Edo Period, 19th Century, Yamatane Museum of Art
Tsubaki Chinzan, View of Mt. Kunō [Important Cultural Property], Color on Silk, Edo Period, 1837, Yamatane Museum of Art
Reizei Tamechika, Warriors, Color on Silk, Edo Period, c. 1846-50, Yamatane Museum of Art

Approximately 50 works in total are to be displayed.

Exhibition Overview

The Yamatane Museum of Art instituted the Yamatane Museum of Art Award in 1971 as part of its efforts to encourage and promote nihonga. The results were presented in the - Yamatane Museum of Art Award: Contemporary Nihonga exhibitions, which were held fourteen times, every other year between 1971 and 1997. In 2016, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, the museum relaunched the award, adhering to its original purpose but implementing it in a new format, a juried public entry exhibition, renamed - Yamatane Museum of Art NIHONGA AWARD: Seed. The objectives of this award are to discover and encourage outstanding artists working in new creative directions in nihonga and to contribute to cultivating nihonga artists and the development of nihonga for a new era through there activities.

In the second holding of the new award (and the sixteenth since the Yamatane Museum of Art Award was founded), 189 works were submitted. After a rigorous screening by the seven members of the jury, Yasuhara Shigemi’s Japanese Big-Leaf Magnolia After Rain was chosen to receive the Grand Prize. The Prize for Excellence goes to Aoki Hideaki’s Emus—Flightless Birds, and Nostalgie by Kondō Mamoru was selected for the Special Prize (presented by Seiko Holdings Corporation). In addition, five works received the Encouragement Prize: Standing Quietly in a Snowfield, by Egawa Naoya, A New World, by Kitagawa Akiko, Enjoying Each Other’s Company, by Mori Mei, Blue Thoughts Night Dream by Nagaoka Ikumi, and Lokadhātu (The World System), by Toyama Makoto.

This exhibition presents the forty-four works that were nominated for awards, including these prize-winning works. Through the work of these young artists, of whom we have high expectations, we hope visitors will be able to sense a new energy and a positive future for nihonga.

During the exhibition period, the museum with also display a selection of Edo-period masterpieces from our collection, including paintings designated as Important Cultural Properties, to introduce the historic foundations underlying modern and contemporary nihonga. We hope you will enjoy viewing them in conjunction with the prizewinning works by young artists.

Finally, we would like to take the opportunity presented by this exhibition to express our deep gratitude to all those whose unstinting efforts and cooperation have contributed to the exhibition’s successful realization.

Acting on the principle of contributing through art to society espoused by our founder, Yamazaki Taneji (founder of Yamatane Securities, now SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.), our museum instituted the Yamatane Museum of Art Award in 1971 as part of our program to encourage and promote nihonga. The Yamatane Museum of Art Award: Contemporary Nihonga exhibition was held fourteen times, every other year, through 1997. For the Yamatane Museum of Art Award exhibitions, artists recommended by the nomination committee showed new or as yet unexhibited work, and the jury selected one artist to receive the Grand Prize and two to receive the Prize for Excellence.

Special Exhibition Commemorating a Decade since the Yamatane Museum of Art Opened in Hiroo: Yamatane Museum of Art NIHONGA AWARD: Seed 2019 ― Meet the Future of Nihonga ― Yamatane Museum of Art ― Works Selected for Awards －
Grand Prize Yasuhara Shigemi 《Japanese Big-Leaf Magnolia After Rain》 Heisei Period, 2019
Prize for Excellence Aoki Hideaki 《Emus—Flightless Birds》 Heisei Period, 2019	Special Prize (Presented by Seiko HoldingsCorporation) Kondō Mamoru 《Nostalgie》 Heisei Period, 2019
Encouragement Prize Egawa Naoya 《Standing Quietly in a Snowfield》 Heisei Period, 2019	Encouragement Prize Kitagawa Akiko 《A New World》 Heisei Period, 2019
Encouragement Prize Toyama Makoto 《Lokadhātu (The World System)》 Heisei Period, 2019	Encouragement Prize Nagaoka Ikumi 《Blue Thoughts Night Dream》 Heisei Period, 2019
Encouragement Prize Mori Mei 《Enjoying Each Other's Company》 Heisei Period, 2019

The five winners of the Encouragement Prize are listed by the name of the artist, in alphabetical order.
The works on display and their exhibition periods are subject to change.
The copyrights of the images included here have not expired, but the museum has received permission from the rights holders for their use in introducing the exhibition; these images can be used only for the purpose of disseminating information about this exhibition.