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From March 22 (Tuesday) to June 3 (Friday), 2022, "Tsuguji Fujita taken by Ken Domon" is being held at "Noevia Ginza Gallery" at Ginza 7-chome Namiki-dori St. Admission is free.

Photographer Ken Domon was born in Sakata-cho, Akukai-gun, Yamagata Prefecture (now Sakata City) in 1909 (Meiji 42), and is one of Japan's leading photographers who photographed traditional cultural properties such as temples and Buddha statues. Representative works include "Koji Pilgrimage", "Murouji Temple", and "Hiroshima". In 1983 (Showa 58), the Domon Ken Memorial Hall was completed in his hometown Sakata City. He died at the age of 80 in 1990.

The painter "Tsuguji Fujita" was born in Ushigome-ku, Tokyo (now Shinjuku-ku) in 1886 (Meiji 19), graduated from the Western Painting Department of Tokyo Bijutsu School (now the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts), before World War I, worked in Paris, France, before World War I, and his unique nude statue, called "wily white skin", was highly praised by Western art circles. It was naturalized in France in 1955 (Showa 30), and died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1968. He was 81 years old.