Yumeji Takehisa, a poet painter representing Taisho Roman, was born in Okayama Prefecture on September 16, 1884 (1884). This year is 130 years. A monument to "Yumeji / Minatoya-related land" is built at the front entrance of Mizuho Trust Bank in Yaesu 1-chome.
Yumeji, who was extremely popular with his unique beauty paintings and lyric poems claimed to be Yumeji, opened his hobby shop port 130 meters west of this monument in 1914, and sold prints, envelopes, cards, postcards, Tenugui and half-collar designs. "The exhibition in which the artist himself commercialized the work and created a store that sells it, has an important significance in the history of commercial art in Japan," explains the monument. It was certainly a revolutionary and innovative idea at that time. This year, the commemorative year of the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Minatoya Esogami store in this area, a commemorative exhibition titled `` 130th Birthday Yumeji Takehisa Exhibition-Yumeji and Rotrek who lived in Belle Epoch '' will be held at each Takashimaya store I'm visiting. "We have a wide range of designs, from magazine covers and advertisements to daily necessities, and are outstanding in the world of commercial art and publishing. The two, who did not belong to the art gallery and had the sensibility to read the cutting edge of the times and raised prints and posters to independent genres, seem to be a project that contrasts the two as "an artist who symbolizes Belle Epoque" (a pamphlet for the exhibition). The monument is close to Nihonbashi Takashimaya and the monument, so please look forward to "Would you like to see it after seeing it?"
The 130th Birthday Yumeji Takehisa Exhibition will be held at Nihonbashi Takashimaya from September 26 to October 6.
Monument of "Yumeji / Minatoya-related land" 1-2-1 Yaesu, near the front entrance of Mizuho Trust Bank head office
