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The MS&AD Insurance Group's Aioi Nissay Dowa Generals Ins. has opened a gallery on December 15, 2020 at the Yaesu Building (Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) to display artworks as a project commemorating the 10th anniversary of its founding.　The company will use it as a base for mecena (support for arts and culture) activities for the succession and development of Japanese culture and arts.

　The company has about 300 works, including Japanese painting, Western paintings, and crafts, with the theme of camellia because the founder of Dai-Tokyo Fire and Marine Insurance, one of its predecessors, loved camellia and made it a company flower. For a quarter of a century, we have contributed to the promotion of local culture and arts by lending the works we hold to museums nationwide free of charge.

　As the company celebrates its 10th anniversary, the company has opened a gallery named UNPEL GALLERY as a place that is widely open to viewers in order to promote regional revitalization through the implementation of projects linked to local universities, as well as providing a place for presentations to young Japanese painters.

Address: Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Yaesu Building 1F, 3-1-6 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.

   The name is derived from the theme of the work owned by the company, "UNPRETENTIOUS ELEGANCE", the flower language of "Tsubaki", "UNPRETENTIOUS ELEGANCE", aiming for a high-quality exhibition, and wishing many people to visit casually.

　To commemorate the opening of UNPEL GALLERY, the company's "Tsubaki Painting Collection Exhibition" is being held.　In the first half of the exhibition, the exhibition mainly focuses on original drawings such as Taikan Yokoyama and Yuki Ogura, which drew both buds and large flowers.　In the latter half, camellia paintings drawn by modern individual painters such as Kourin Ogata, Yumeji Takehisa, and Ryusei Kishida from the Edo period are lined up.

①  Exhibition in the first half of the year "Tsubaki Saku-Toward a mature with a sense of freshness"

 December 16 (Wednesday) - 25 (Friday) 2020

②   Late exhibition "New Year camellia picture masterpiece exhibition-Rinpa flowers from the early modern era to modern era"

January 8 (Fri) to 24 (Sun), 2021

(Business hours) 11:00 to 19:00 during the exhibition period (Tuesday-Sunday corridor, monthly holiday)

　At UNPEL GALLERY, not only displays the Tsubaki-e collection owned by the company, but also solo exhibitions of publicly recruited public exhibitions nationwide, exhibitions of graduates of art colleges, and the modern and modern times of the company for the purpose of handing down memories of disasters It seems that the plan is to develop unique mecena activities, such as holding an exhibition of the history collection.

　In Chuo-ku, there is a street nicknamed "Hanatsubaki-dori", and it is not necessary to explain the fact that the symbol of Shiseido Co., Ltd. is "Hanatsubaki".　In addition, there is the site of the "Minatoya Ezo Soko Store" opened by Yumeji Takehisa, who left many paintings depicting camellia (Yaesu 1-2-1). In addition to these, I would like to congratulate you on the addition of new facilities related to Tsubaki.

　In addition, Kosei (CAM) is a person who really loves camellia flowers, and the handle name "CAM" is the first three letters of "Camellia".