Collection and Creation: Mutsumi Tsuuzaki and Tsuuzaki-Gonomi

Higashi Osaka Citizens Art Center

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The Kyoto-based marimba and xylophone musician, writer, and kimono collector Mutsumi Tsuuzaki received the sixth annual Asahi Kansai Square21 Award for young people in the Kansai area. This exhibition introduces her many “Tsuuzaki-Gonomi” activities. Tsuuzaki’s collection of kimonos and kimono accessories focuses on the Meiji, Taisho, and early-Showa periods, and the pieces belonging to her Meisen Kimono Collection are among the finest in Japan. Also on display are fascinating portraits by the artist Kokuta Suda that reveal relationships between the common people and art during the period of rapid economic growth during Tsuuzaki’s childhood and adolescence, as well as an extensive collection of audio sources, musical instruments, and other materials Tsuuzaki accumulated while researching the early-Showa xylophone artist Yoichi Hiraoka for her most recent book published in September 2013. While tracing the creative endeavors of the Japanese people in multiple eras, this show offers a look at Tsuuzaki’s untiring “contemporary creativity”, from yukata and kimono making to music composition.

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Dates: June 1 (Sat) from 11:00 and 14:00
Speaker: Mutsumi Tsuuzaki
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