Takehisa Yumeji: Master of Japanese Modern Illustration

Saturday, May 19 - Sunday, July 1, 2018

Chiyoda Ward, where Tokyo Station Gallery is located, has flourished as a district with one of the highest concentrations of publishing and printing companies in Japan. Ryuseikaku in Kudanminami, Chiyoda Ward is well-known as the publisher of Kotaro Takamura's The Chieko Story, but it is also the company that published a number of works by Yumeji Takehisa after the war and was a driving force in the second wave of Yumeji's great popularity. This exhibition is to commemorate the donation to Chiyoda Ward of the huge Yumeji Collection (over 1,200 items) that Ishiro Sawada, the founder of Ryuseikaku, collected for the publication of Yumeji's writings and drawings, and it presents the essence of that collection.