Ogasawara values every rich encounter had with nature, and his landscape paintings, conceived while walking to a place, are imbued with the artist’s experience. His works, meticulously painted with gold color as a basic tone, are gentle and simple in style while exuding a high level of elegance. This exhibition features his representative works, depicting landscapes he encountered by chance in nature and amid satoyama rural scenery, as well as new works of flowers.

Hajime Ogasawara 1954~
Born in Saitama Prefecture. His family home is a temple in Taito Ward, Tokyo, where he currently is a priest and a registered monk. Completes graduate studies at Musashino Art University, 1978. At university, he studies under Takashi Asada and Takehiko Mori and, after graduations, shows at Soga Exhibitions (Spring Soga Exhibition Award 1983, 1985, and 1987). His work gets purchased at the 8th Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition in 1985, wins the Excellence Award at the 11th Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition in 1991, and is invited to exhibit at the 12th Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition in 1993. In 1996 and 1999 he exhibits at the New Generation Exhibition of Japanese Paintings (Daimaru Museum). Since around 2000, Ogasawara’s main form of exhibition is solo. His landscape paintings, conceived while visiting mountain villages across Japan, are filled with a gentle emotion that quietly penetrates the heart.

Shin Hayashi’s consistent yet variegated work—discarded industrial products, deep-sea creatures, and animals in zoos as thematic content—offers hidden dramas projecting the vague anxiety and sense of stagnation felt today. In recent years, however, Hayashi delivers work conveying the vitality of the natural world, such as old trees and flowers, and drives forward in a new direction evoking hope and light. Exhibited works have won awards at Nitten and Nisshunten exhibitions and include new masterpieces. This is a cutting-edge exhibition of contemporary Nihonga.

Shin Hayashi 1972~
Born in Gifu Prefecture. Graduates Nagoya University of Arts Graduate School, 1999. First selected for the Nitten Exhibition and wins the Chunichi Prize, 1996. Wins Grand Prize, Inazawa Open-Call Exhibition at Ogisu Memorial Art Museum, 1997. Incentive Award at the Nisshunten Exhibition, 2004 and 2011. Grand Prize at the Garyuzakura Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition, 2005 (Award of Excellence, 2004). Award of Excellence at the Biennale Ushiku, 2008, and Grand Prize at the TYK Painting Grand Prize Exhibition. Gifu City Arts and Culture Incentive Award, 2009. Special Selection at the Nitten Exhibition, 2013 and 2022. Incentive Award at the Shin Nisshunten Exhibition, 2017 (Shin Nisshun Prize in 2018, New Member Award in 2021). Currently an associate member of the Nitten Exhibition, a member of the Nisshunkai, and part-time lecturer at Nagoya University of Arts.
Note: From August 25 to November 12, a small works exhibition will be held in the small exhibition room on the 2nd floor.

This signature exhibition of works from our collection showcases works of seasonal flowers and landscapes by Yoshihiko Yoshida, Fumiko Hori, Sho Ishimoto, Takehiko Mori, Matazo Kayama, Takashi Asada, Ikuo Hirayama, Masaru Matsumoto, Kimitsugu Matsumura, Yukihiko Kurihara, Miyuki Ito, Rieko Morita, Norihiko Saito, Naoyuki Odano, and others.

From works in the museum's collection, we introduce works by the artists active in Nitten Exhibitions: Shoko Kawasaki, Shinsen Tokuoka, Eizo Kato, Kaii Higashiyama, Yasushi Sugiyama, Tatsuo Takayama, Yuki Sekiguchi, Mutsuo Kawashima, Reiichi Tsuchiya, Kiyokazu Yonetani, Toshiyuki Higashi, Yukishige Sakamoto, Maho Yamada, Sohei Iwata, Masamitsu Kimura, and others.