
2025.7.9
On Aug. 01, “ARTIS” (bimonthly) No.36, a periodical booklet on culture and art, will be published.
On Aug.01, “ARTIS” (Latin for ‘art’) No.36, which introduces our gallery’s collection from various perspectives and has been well received by our visitors, will be published. The theme of this issue is “Kodai no Ibuki (Breath of Antiquity),” which explores art connected to ancient times. In [Opening Page] Pursue an Artwork, we introduce “Self-engraved Portrait” by the Korean genius sculptor Kwon Jinkyu. This work is a valuable piece left in Japan through the friendship between Kwon and our gallery’s pillar Western painter Toshima Yasumasa (Bequest of Toshima Yasumasa).
The “Creators” Corner delves into the life of the same sculptor, Kwon Jinkyu, while Free Project, “Here and Now” explores the connection between Breath of the Jomon period and the very late-life calligraphy work ‘Hyaku Jyu (One Hundred Felicities) ’ by Zen master Hakuin. In Contribution column “My Eyes,” you can read a light-hearted short essay by Hanshi, a “Tankyu-shin no Zasshoku-ka (Curious Omnivore),” on the subject of Gassan Sword. Please take a look. The exhibition with the same title, “Kodai no Ibuki (Breath of Antiquity)” Exhibition (Period: Jul. 29, 2025–Nov. 29, 2025), will be held, where you can view Kwon Jinkyu’s time transcending works. We hope you will visit both exhibitions.
If you are interested in ARTIS, please contact Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa (direct phone number: 03-3511-8162)for free distribution and free regular delivery.
[Opening Page] Pursue an Artwork | : Toshima Yasumasa “En la calle ―Street of La Racheー” |
[Interview] The Art Talk | : Fudo to Iro (Climate and Color) |
[Column] Creators | : Shiga Naoya |
[Free Project] Here and Now | : Nishi no Kyo yori (From Western Capital) |
[Contribution] My Eye | : Maeda Yukari |
[Serials] | : Letter from Toshima Yasumasa Curator News |
“ARTIS” No. 36
2025.7.9
“Kodai no Ibuki (Breath of Antiquity)” Exhibition (~11/29) will open on July 29, 2025. Instagram follow-up campaign for Shigyo Sosyu Collection is now underway! You can get a Kin-chan sticker.
“Kodai no Ibuki (Breath of Antiquity)“ Exhibition Main Image: Kwon Jinkyu ”Self-engraved Portrait” (Bequest of ToshimaYasumasa)
The exhibition, titled “Kodai no Ibuki (Breath of Antiquity)” (Period: Jul. 29, 2025 – Nov. 29, 2025), will focus on collections that remind us of the Jomon and ancient civilizations and connect us to the eternal time. The highlight of the exhibition will be the sculpture “Self-engraved Portrait” by Kwon Jinkyu (Bequest of Toshima Yasumasa), which will be exhibited for the first time at our gallery. Kwon Jinkyu was a senior student of Toshima Yasumasa at Musashino Art School, and the two had a great artistic influence on each other. Visitors will be able to see the masterpieces of Kwon Jinkyu that were entrusted to Toshima. In addition, sculptures by Kosaka Keiji, who interacted with Takamura Kotaro, and other works donated by his bereaved family will be combined with calligraphy by Hakuin Ekaku and ancient, Jomon-style paintings by Western-style artists Hirano Ryo, Yamaguchi Takeo, and Koshino Junko. We hope you will feel the “Breath of Antiquity”.
Additionally, the August 1 issue ofARTIS No. 36 will explore the theme of “Kodai no Ibuki (Breath of Antiquity,” the same as the exhibition. [Opening Page] features Kwon Jinkyu’s “Self-engraved Portrait,” while [Free Project] Here and Now explores the connection between Hakuin Ekaku’s vey late-life calligraphy piece “Hyaku Jyu (One Hundred Felicities)” and the Jomon period. In [Contribution] My Eyes, Mr. Hanshi, a “Tankyushin no zasshoku-ka (Curious Omnivore),” shares a lighthearted short essay on the Gassan sword. We hope you will pick up a copy and enjoy it.
★During Kodai no Ibuki (Breath of Antiquity) Exhibition period, by following the official Instagram account of Shigyo Sosyu Collection・Toshima Yasumasa Memorial Gallery, you can get Kin-chan sticker! ★
During the exhibition period, by visiting the exhibition, and show us your Instagram follow screen, and you can get Kin-chan sticker!
The sticker features the official character of the parent company, Nihon Seibutsu Kagaku Co., Ltd., as an artist!
Don’t forget to follow us!
Art Kin-chan Sticker
《聚 (Syu)》Yamaguchi Takeo
Exhibition Period: Jul. 29, 2025 (Tue) – Nov. 29, 2025 (Sat)
Open on Tuesday ~ Saturday 11:00 ~ 18:00 / Closed on Sunday, Monday and National Holiday.
Location:Shigyo Sosyu Collection/Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa BIOTEC Building, 1-10 Kouji-machi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
※Please call us before visiting our Gallery. (Tel:03-3511-8162)
⇒ Map here
2025.5.19
On June 01, “ARTIS” (bimonthly) No.35, a periodical booklet on culture and art, will be published.
On June 1, “ARTIS” (Latin for “art”) No.35, which introduces our gallery’s collection from a variety of perspectives and has been well received by our readers, will be published. This issue, entitled “Fudo to Iro (Climate and Color),” and the theme of the issue is how climate and earth spirits are expressed in paintings, with color as the main perspective. At the opening page, a water color painting of La Rache in Morocco, which Toshima Yasumasa visited will be introduced. And in the “Creators” corner, Shiga Naoya, whose ceramics are part of the Sosyu Collection, will be featured. In Free project “Here and Now” explores the relationship between Yasuda Yukihiko’s works and the climate of Nara, which fostered his sense of beauty. In “My Eyes” contributed by a visitor to the gallery, a Japanese painter Ms. Maeda Yukari exquisitely describes her impression of encountering Yasuda Yukihiko’s “Seisei Creation). ” Please take a look.
At Shigyo Sosyu Collection Display Floor / Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa, the same title as ARTIS No.34 “Kaze no Katami – New・Collection”Exhibition (Dates: 2025/4/1 – 2025/7/19)continues to exhibit the newly added works to the Shigyo Sosyu Collection for the first time. The exhibition focuses on works of art by Western-style painter Hirose Ko and sculptor Sawada Hideo, both of whom were collected in recent years as symbols of spiritual and futuristic art. The exhibition also combines his previous collections. We hope you can feel the transformation of the spirituality that has been passed down to us along with the new winds of “Kaze no Katami”.
If you are interested in ARTIS, please contact Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa (direct phone number: 03-3511-8162)for free distribution and free regular delivery.
[Opening Page] Pursue an Artwork | : Toshima Yasumasa “En la calle ―Street of La Racheー” |
[Interview] The Art Talk | : Fudo to Iro (Climate and Color) |
[Column] Creators | : Shiga Naoya |
[Free Project] Here and Now | : Nishi no Kyo yori (From Western Capital) |
[Contribution] My Eye | : Maeda Yukari |
[Serials] | : Letter from Toshima Yasumasa Curator News |
“ARTIS” No.35
2025.5.19
Scheduled for release in late June 2025, Sosyu Genkoroku IV (Sosyu Chronicle of Words and Deeds) [Kofuku to wa nanika (What is Happiness?)] ( published by Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, Ltd., written by Shigyo Sosyu) will be published!
This time, from Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, Ltd., Shigyo Sosyu’s new series of Sosyu Genkoroku IV [Kofuku to wa nanika] will be released after June 20, 2025 (¥2,200 including tax, ISBN:978-4-408-65130-9, 344 pages) Click here to purchase or make reservation.
Sosyu Genkoroku is a compilation of talks given by the author at lectures, and the fourth book is titled “Kofuku to wa nanika (What is Happiness?)” the Part 1 is a lecture given at the Tokyo Headquarters of PHP Research Institute (relayed from the Kyoto Headquarters) in commemoration of the publication of “Gendai no Kosatsu (A Study of Actuality),” the Part 2 is a lecture given at the Nakanoshima Center of Osaka University, hosted by Ningengaku-jyuku Nakanoshima, and Part 3 is a lecture given for the class of the 36th term of the Matsushita Seikei Juku. The Part 4 contains the lectures given at the 50th anniversary of the Death of Mishima Yukio and the 53rd “Yukoku-ki ”. This book is filled with the true “what is happiness” and the philosophy of happiness that promotes fundamental life-burning, which is different from modern people’s view of happiness. Please pick up a copy.
Part 1: On Happiness
Part 2: What is Morality – Toward True Happiness
Part 3: What is Longing for Humanity
Part 4: Mythology and Happiness – A Record of Lectures of Yukoku-ki
The Zen phrase “Banri Ichijyo no Tetsu” (from “Ninden ganmoku”) was chosen by Shigyo Sosyu to express “what happiness means”. According to Shigyo Sosyu, “It represents true cosmic equality. There is one will (soul) that pervades everything. There is eternal equality.”
My view of happiness refers to the true combustion of the one life that is lived only once. That is what I continue to affirm as human happiness.
–From the Foreword to “What is Happiness?
Sosyu Genkoroku IV [Kofuku to wa nanika]
Scheduled to be released after June 20, 2025, published by Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, Ltd.,
written by Shigyo Sosyu
\2,200 including tax. 344 pages
ISBN:978-4-408-65130-9
2025.4.16
Business days of Nihon Seibutsu Kagaku Co., Ltd. and Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa during Golden Week.
Thank you for your continued patronage to BIOTEC Enterprise and we would like to inform you of the business days of Nihon Seibutsu Kagaku Co., Ltd. and the opening days of Shigyo Sosyu Collection / Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa during the Golden Week holidays in May.
We will be open as usual on the national holidays of May 3rd (Saturday) and 6th (Tuesday). (*May 4th (Sunday) and May 5th (Monday) are our regular holidays.) Instead, we will be closed on May 10th (Saturday) and 13th (Tuesday), so please check for details.
2025.3.11
On Apr. 01, “ARTIS”(bimonthly) No.34, a periodical booklet on culture and art, will be published.
On April 01, “ARTIS” (Latin for “art”) No.34, which introduces our gallery’s collection from various perspectives and has been well received by our readers, will be published. This issue, titled “Kaze no Katami (Memento of the Wind),” Shigyo Sosyu will speak about Reisei hyogen (Divinity expression) suitable for the new era. [Opening Page] features『Ringo saku koro (When apples bloom)』by Hirose Ko, and [Free Project] Here and Now: summarizes Sawada Hideo’s work. In Contribution from the visitor of our gallery [My Eye], Dr. Fukushi Tsugumi, a medical doctor engaged in research on interstitial gels, wrote an invigorating essay on the Gassan sword , linking it to the second law of thermodynamics. We hope to have you take it in your hands.
At Shigyo Sosyu Collection Display Floor / Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa, the same title as ARTIS No.34 “Memento of the Wind―New・Collection” Exhibition (Period: April 01, 2025 ~ July 19, 2025), we are pleased to present for the first time the newest addition to Shigyo Sosyu Collection. The main focus will be on artworks such as Western-style painter Hirose Ko and sculptor Sawada Hideo, who Shigyo Sosyu has collected many artworks in recent years that he sees as symbolic of Divinity and futuristic art. We hope to have you sense the transformation of the divinity inherited along with the new wind of “Memento of the Wind.”
If you are interested in ARTIS, please contact Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa (Direct phone:03-3511-8162).
[Opening Page] Pursue an Artwork | : Hirose Ko “Ringo saku koro (When Apples bloom)” |
[Interview] The Art Talk | : Kaze no Katami (Memento of the Wind) |
[Column] Creators | : Hirose Ko |
[Free Project] Here and Now | : Umare izuru Hito (Human to be born) |
[Contribution] My Eye | : Fukushi Tsugumi |
[Serials] | : Letter from Toshima Yasumasa Curator News |
“ARTIS” No.34
2025.3.11
From April 01, 2025, “Kaze no Katami―Shin・Collection―(Memento of the Wind―New・Collection―)” is scheduled to open.
Sawada Hideo Sculpture creation・photography
This time, the exhibition titled “Memento of the Wind―New・Collection―”(Period: Apr.01,2025~July 19, 2025) will be the first public viewing of the newest addition to Shigyo Sosyu Collection. The main focus will be on artworks such as Western-style painter Hirose Ko and sculptor Sawada Hideo, who Shigyo Sosyu has collected many artworks in recent years that he sees as symbolic of Divinity and futuristic art. Also, the past collection will be displayed in combination. We hope to have you sense the transformation of the divinity inherited along with the new wind of “Memento of the Wind.”
In addition, ARTIS No.34, to be published on April 01, will have the same theme as the exhibition, “Memento of the Wind,” in which Shigyo Sosyu will speak about the Divinity expression suitable for the new era. In addition, [Opening Page] features『Ringo saku koro (When Apples bloom)』by Hirose Ko, and [Free Project] Here and Now: summarizes Sawada Hideo’s work. In [Contribution] My Eye: Dr. Fukushi Tsugumi, a medical doctor engaged in research on interstitial gels, wrote an invigorating essay on the Gassan sword, linking it to the second law of thermodynamics. We hope you will take it in your hands.
《Yatsugatake Plateau》Hirose Ko
Display period: April 01 (Tus.), 2025 ~ July 19 (Sat.), 2025.
Open on Tuesday ~ Saturday 11:00 ~ 18:00 / Closed on Sunday, Monday and National Holiday.
Location:Shigyo Sosyu Collection/Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa BIOTEC Building, 1-10 Kouji-machi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
※Please call us before visiting our Gallery. (Tel:03-3511-8162)
⇒ Map here
2025.2.13
Scheduled on Jul.20, 2024 ~, Sosyu Genkoroku III (Sosyu Chronicle of Words and Deeds), [Makoto ni Iku (Live in Sincerity)] (published by Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, Ltd., written by Shigyo Sosyu) will be published!
This time, from Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, Ltd., Shigyo Sosyu’s new series of Sosyu Genkoroku III [Makoto ni Iku] will be released around July 20, 2024. (¥2,200 (price including tax) ISBN:978-4-408-65102-6, 320 pages)
Sosyu Genkoroku is a compilation of talks given by the author at lectures, and the third book, titled “Makoto ni Iku,” contains lectures given at Celebration of the 30th anniversary of Nihon Koen Shinbun, lectures given at the Japanese Medium-sized Business Management Course hosted by Hollywood Graduate School, lectures given at reading circle of Kyoto University, Osaka University, Kyushu University, and also contains lectures from the internet educational program 10mTV Opinion.
Part 1: “Nihon teki” no Kongen (Fountainhead of Japanese way)
Part 2: Riso ni Ikiru (Living the Ideal)
Part 3: Makoto ni Iku (Live in Sincerity)
Part 4: Burenai Jiku towa (What is Stable Axis?)
Part 5: Ningen ryoku ni Semaru (Approaching Human Power)
With these chapters, this volume summarizes Shigyo Sosyu’s view of life for [Makoto ni Iku].
The Zen phrase “Doppo Seiten” was chosen by Shigyo Sosyu as the fundamental attitude for “Makoto ni Iku.” Shigyo Sosyu says it means “When Sincerity takes on a physical body, we can walk in the heavens.”
“Sincerity is the true “Tear” of every human life. For the sake of those tears, humans have overcome any suffering.” ――― from the preface of Shigyo Sosyu [Makotoni Iku]
Sosyu Genkoroku III [Makoto ni Iku]
scheduled to be released around July 20, 2024,
written by Shigyo Sosyu
tax-included ¥2,200, 320 pages
ISBN:978-4-408-65102-6
2025.1.29
On Feb.01, 2025, the 33rd issue of “ARTIS” (bimonthly), a periodical booklet on culture and art, will be published.
On February 1, the 33rd issue of “ARTIS” (Latin for “art”), which introduces our gallery’s collection from various perspectives and has been well received by our readers, will be published. This issue, titled “Seinaru mono e (Toward the Sacred),” will explore the sacredness manifested in art. In an interview with the director Shigyo Sosyu, he narrates extensively about the historical transition of the “sacred” and new art forms for the future.
The opening painting, “Ao Fuji (Blue Fuji),” by Ms. Matsui Yuka, explores the mystery and depth hidden in the work.
In [My Eyes] corner, which features contributions from visitors to the museum, aesthetician Mr. Hirai Michiyuki has contributed a poetic art criticism essay exploring knowledge and beauty, in response to a photograph by Mr. Tachihara Sei. We hope you will take a look at it.
At Shigyo Sosyu Collection/ Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa, exhibition “Sword and Flower” exhibition (~Mar. 22, 2025), which has been visited by many visitors, continues to be on view. Every month, the exhibited works without glass cases will be replaced, so we hope you will enjoy the different works. The exhibition features swords by Gassan Sadatoshi of the Gassan family of swordsmiths, calligraphy and paintings by Yamaoka Tesshu and Yasuda Yukihiko, and other works that represent the soul of Bushido and the way of life as sublimely as “flowers”.
If you are interested in ARTIS, please contact Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa (Direct phone:03-3511-8162).
[Opening Page] Pursue an Artwork | : Matsui Yuka “Ao Fuji (Blue Fuji)” |
[Interview] The Art Talk | : Seinaru mono e (Toward the Sacred) |
[Column] Creators | : Yanagi Muneyoshi |
[Free Project] Here and Now | : Ki(Wood)・Nen(Sense/Feel)・Bi(Beauty) |
[Contribution] My Eye | : Hirai Noriyuki |
[Serials] | : Letter from Toshima Yasumasa Curator News |
“ARTIS” No.33