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Current events
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MAYX Exhibition
The 11th photography exhibition of art group MAYX.
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Masato Seto "Soap Land 2007, Bangkok"
-Talk Event "Toi & Masato" Guests: Masato Seto, Keizo Kitajima Date & Time: May 10th (Sat) 19:00- Fee: ¥1000 (Including 1 drink. Reservation required) Location: Place M For reservation and (...)
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All Japan Association of Photographic Societies Kanto Area 6th Female Photographers Exhibition
This yearly exhibition showcases prizewinning photographs by female photographers from Tokyo, Hokkaido and 17 eastern-Japan prefectures. All female participants, including children and students, are welcomed (...)
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Kenta Nanba + Paradise Lunch "Letters #1"
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Akiko Takai "Silent Walker"
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Nao Tsuda "Story Inside the Sleeve"
Talk event: Nao Tsuda and Atsunobu Katagiri May 10th (Sat) 19:00- Fee: ¥1000 A talk event and slideshow given by Katagiri, a flower arrangement artist and director of Shusui Shobo bookshop will be held. To (...)
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This Week at Gallery Yokohama Civic Art Gallery
Kanagawa Tama Art Group Exhibition 2008 -Gallery 1F -Oil painting, watercolor, nihonga, sumi-ink drawing, printmaking, sculpture, craft. -70 works -Opens at 13:00 on the first exhibition day. 15th (...)
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"4 Artists" Exhibition
- at Yoshino Junsui Hachimitsuten Gallery
- in the Musashino, Tama area
- Starts Today, Closes in 4 days
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"Forbidden City" Exhibition
The Forbidden City in Beijing was for over 500 years the symbol of China's splendor and even looked upon as something like the center of the universe. Up until the Qing dynasty ended in 1911, it was also (...)
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"From Mitaka" Exhibition
4th installment in yearly series of exhibitions featuring artists living in Mitaka working in a variety of media.
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34th Basic Photography Course Completion Exhibition "Loitering"
"Loitering" is the graduation exhibition for the 34th Basic Photography course at the Contemporary Photo Institute, showcasing a year's worth of photographic explorations by a wide variety of people of (...)
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Mari Sugino "Rippling Planet"
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Sakura Arise "Just Time"
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"Desire" Exhibition
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"ESD Photo Message" Exhibition
80 prizewinning works from the Asia-Pacific competition will be on display.
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"Photo & Graph Exhibition -Portrayal of Light-"
This exhibition introduces works by Joshibi Art University graduates who have been active in photography and graphics. Works and messages with a uniquely feminine viewpoint will be on display. This (...)
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"Survey Map of Amphibious Settlements: Photographs by Shuji Yamada" Exhibition
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Masatoshi Miyakogawa Exhibition
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Yoshihiro Mochizuki Exhibition
While the city seems to have been flourishing after climbing out of a recession, it's also said that gaps between social classes have widened these days. As walking around the city, we encounter soon-to-be-forgotten (...)
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Hideyuki Tsukahara "Froth"
The word "froth" brings to mind the idea of bubble economies, "bubble" candidates, a sense of fleetingness and disappearance... This exhibition features 10 monochrome works that capture various sorts (...)
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Lee Jung-Man "Recent Works"
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Naoya Hatakeyama Exhibition
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce Naoya Hatakeyama's 4th solo exhibition. This exhibition presents approximately 15 photographs from Hatakeyama's recent "Ciel Tombé" series, photographed in Paris, (...)
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"Landscape X" Exhibition
Landscape painting flourished at the end of 19th century. More than a century later, modern landscape and methods of depicting it have changed considerably. Started in April 1999, this is the 10th edition (...)
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Wolfgang Tillmans "Lichter"
Opening Thursday, April 10, 2008, Wako Works of Art is very pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans. This will be his fourth exhibition at Wako Works of Art. Born in Germany in 1968 (...)
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Wolfgang Tillmans Exhibition
Opening Thursday, April 10, 2008, Wako Works of Art is very pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans. This will be his fourth exhibition at Wako Works of Art. Born in Germany in 1968 (...)
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"Maddalena Sisto's Land" Exhibition
Maddelena Sisto (born 1951 in Alexandria, passed away 2000 in Milan) was a world-renowned illustrator who worked with magazines like Italian Vogue and Elle Deco, and was also something of a legend in the (...)
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"Setagaya Art Free Market Connection" Exhibition
- at Setagaya Culture Life Information Center, Seikatsu-Kobo
- in the Nakameguro area
- Closes in 11 days
This exhibition accompanies the "Setagaya Art Free Market" to be held on May 17th (Sat) and 18th (Sun) on the 3rd to the 5th floors of Carrot Tower. A wide range of works created by local creators who (...)
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10th Anniversary Special Exhibition "French-Japanese Photographic Encounters"
Michiko Matsumoto captures the lithe, athletic bodies of dancers, recording encounters between two human souls. Kimiko Ishiyama trains her lens on rows and rows of mannequins laid out in warehouses. Noriko (...)
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Antonin & Noémi Raymond Exhibition
In the midst of WWI, Antonin Raymond and Noémi Pernessin met each other on a ship while escaping the upheaval of Europe. When Antonin was 26 years old and Noémi 25, they got married and began a creative (...)
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Naoki Sekiguchi "Shirayuki"
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Rinko Kawauchi "Semear"
April 28, 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the first "Nikkei" immigrants to Brazil, who left from the port city of Kobe. Rinko Kawauchi's "Semear" photo collection, released in 2007, was produced over (...)
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This Week at Gallery Le Deco
1F Tomomi Yatsuda "Animism" Dates: May 13th (Tue)-May 25th (Sun) Genre: 2D 2F "Tripod 1" Exhibition Dates: May 13th (Tue)-May 18th (Sun) Genre: Photography Artists: Kazuyuki Kurita, Ko Takano, (...)
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Yoshihiro Kitamata Exhibition
-Live performance by Hideo Hirabayashi (synthesizer) "Samedi Soir vol.6" Date & Time: May 24th (Sat) 19:30- Charge ¥1000/ Drink ¥500 [Image: "Ease vol.7" (2008) Giclee print on arche paper, 420 (...)
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Akito Okuda "Happy People"
Showcasing photographs the artist shot from September 2004 through January 2006 in Minamata City, Kumamoto, and its neighboring areas. Minamata has been known as a place filled with anger and tears. However, (...)
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Kenshichi Heshiki "Goat Lung: Okinawa 1968-2005"
Goats are the spitting image of Okinawa. Although they have a mild temper and a fairly gentle personality, they are killed and eaten in the end for their fine flavor. The title of the exhibition is a sort (...)
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Toshikazu Masukawa "Fetal Activity"
-Opening Reception Date & Time: May 7th (Wed) 17:00-19:30
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Koji Nakao "Golf Gardens"
This seventh exhibition at Gallery Box in the Yokohama Bayquarter building presents an installation by photographer Koji Nakao. "Light," especially artificial light, is the main motif of Nakao's work. (...)
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"Africa- the Land of Hope" Exhibition
TICAD IV (4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development) will be held in Yokohama in May 2008. Co-hosted by the United Nations and the World Bank, members of the global community and African (...)
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"FinePix S100FS" Exhibition
Celebrating the launching of a new digital camera "FinePix S100FS", Fujifilm Square is presenting approximately 70 nature photographs by 5 notable photographers Masaaki Aihara, Tatsuya Tanaka, Masato Terauchi, (...)
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Chihiro Kabata "Superposition"
Opening Party: May 3rd (Sat) 18:00-
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Hideki Kuwajima "Vertical/ Horizontal"
Hideki Kuwajima (b.1964) has a dynamic personality which stands in contrast to his artworks. Besides being an artist, he works as a commercial photographer and started taking the series of photos "Vertical (...)
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Ian Hamilton Finlay + Boyd Webb Exhibition
[Image: Ian Hamilton Finlay "Four Sails" (1967) 555 x 430mm]
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Shiori Kawamoto "Mimiwosumasu"
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Takashi Homma "Tokyo"
This exhibition marks Aperture's (New York) publication of the photo collection of the same name. This is Homma's first Tokyo-themed show in 10 years capturing various angles of Tokyo. More details (...)
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Yukari Edamitsu "Catch the Light"
[Image: Digital C-print, video]
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of selections from its permanent collection of approximately 1,000 works. These will include artworks from the areas of painting, (...)
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Claire Xuan "In the Open Air"
This exhibition presents two of sculptor Claire Xuan's most recent works, "Provence" and "Japan". These book-objects, also called portfolios or travel diaries, were published in a limited edition of 999 (...)
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Kazuyoshi Mikoshi "Paradise of Camels"
Kazuyoshi Mikoshi is a photographer who has shot scenes of Tahiti, the Maldives, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas, and the North Pole, a lifelong vocation that began ever since his first visit to Okinawa (...)
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Lee Friedlander "Cherry Blossom Time in Japan"
This is an exhibition by one of America's representative photographers, Lee Friedlander. His work has contributed to a new development in documentary photography, beginning with his photographs of scenes (...)
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"Index #4 - Yes We Can Destroy" Exhibition
This year's Index exhibition themed "destruction" is the fourth in the series. The exhibition is held annually in Kyoto and Tokyo with the support of student volunteers from Kyoto University of Art and (...)
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Liang Weizhou Exhibition
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Yoshiko Seino "A good day, good time"
This photographer has been known for her unique perspective and sense of depth in her landscape and still life works since the beginning of her career. Surprisingly though, her stance toward photography (...)
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"Niigata: Kashiwazaki, Kariwa, Izumozaki" Exhibition
A close-up look at Kashiwazaki, Kariwa and Izumozaki, in Niigata Prefecture. Introduces the rich bounty of nature and culinary culture stemming from these tourist spots. - Exhibition of winners from photo (...)
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Bishin Jumonji "Falling Into Photographs"
Bishin Jumonji started working as a freelance photographer in 1971 at the age of 24. His debut work "Untitled" was exhibited at Camera Mainichi, and was later chosen to be shown at the Museum of Modern (...)
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Bishin Jumonji "Falling Into Photographs"
Bishin Jumonji started working as a freelance photographer in 1971 at the age of 24. His debut work "Untitled" was exhibited at Camera Mainichi, and was later chosen to be shown at the Museum of Modern (...)
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Shintaro Sato "Tokyo Twilight Zone: Emergency Staircase Tokyo"
In the sprawling metropolis of Tokyo, houses, stores, housing complexes, old buildings and new high-rises are all crowded next to and on top of each other. The old and new coexist in this city. As the (...)
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Toru Shiozaki Exhibition
Shiozaki used to work for a leading game software company in Tokyo as a 3D designer, whereas his interest in photography continued to grow. He at last quit the company and started walking a new path as (...)
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"Aera 20th Anniversary Eiichiro Sakata Love Call -Portraits of Our Time" Exhibition
Exhibiting approximately 900 portrait photographs Eiichiro Sakata took in the past 20 years in 4 locations -Marunouchi Building, Shin Marunouchi Building, Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery and Marunouchi (...)
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"Italian Genius Now" Exhibition
After Singapore, Hanoi and Seoul, the "Italian Genius Now" exhibition will show in Tokyo at the Italian Cultural Institute from April 29th to June 8th, presenting about 90 works from the important collections (...)
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Joel Meyerowitz “The Elements: Air/Water, Part 1”
The genesis of “The Elements: Air/Water, Part 1” was sparked in July 2007, when Joel Meyerowitz was directing a video of Olympic divers from an underwater viewing room at a Florida pool. The repetition (...)
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Matthias Schaller + Stephen Dean + Toshihiro Yashiro Exhibition
Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya will present a collection of works produced by artists-in-residence Matthias Schaller and Stephen Dean as the culmination of the TWS Aoyama: Creators-in-Residence program this (...)
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"TICAD IV Yokohama Opening Commemorative Exhibition"
Held in conjunction with the 4th African Development Conference taking place in Yokohama in late May, this exhibition showcases more than 230 works capturing the real face of Africa today, taken by around (...)
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"Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2007" Exhibitions
Since their establishment in July 1995, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts has been collecting and exhibiting works based on 3 principles, "affinity towards living things", "eternal platinum prints" (...)
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Arata Isozaki "Seven Art Galleries"
Celebrating the reopening of Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, we are pleased to introduce seven art galleries that Isozaki has designed since 1960, introducing the whole picture from developing the concept (...)
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Tadashi Suga Exhibition
The most distinctive buildings completed by architect Tadashi Suga will be on display in photographs, showcasing the intended purpose of each building as well as how the architect responded to the client's (...)
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Lydia Venieri Exhibition "See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil"
Gallery Terra Tokyo is pleased announce to present the first exhibition in Japan by Lydia Venieri. "Her most recent work, No Evil, featured in this exhibition, focuses on tightly framed faces of dolls. (...)
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Daido Moriyama "I. Retrospective 1965-2005" & "II. Hawaii"
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is pleased to announce that it will be holding a two-part exhibition of the work of Daido Moriyama under the titles "Ⅰ. Retrospective 1965-2005" and "Ⅱ. Hawaii." (...)
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"Passion - Kansai Energy" Exhibition
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Edo-Tokyo Museum, museum and fashion designer and producer Kansai Yamamoto, whose designs are inspired by the history and culture of Japan, collaborated on the production (...)
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Taro Okamoto "Traditions of Japan"
In 1956, Taro Okamoto published a book entitled, "Traditions of Japan." The catalyst that aroused his interest in this primitive history was the exhibition "Jomon Earthenware," held at the Tokyo National (...)
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"Collection Pickup -Curators' Picks-" Exhibition
Kawasaki City Museum has been a pioneer in researching new genres of art, such as photography, comics, graphics, film and image, while also collecting valuable materials as civic resources. Celebrating (...)
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"History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize" Exhibition
The Turner Prize is one of the most important prizes in the art world today. Organized by the Tate galleries and presented annually since 1984, it represents a major steppingstone for young British artists. (...)
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"Japanese Literature in Film Part 1 - From the NFC Non-film Collection" Exhibition
Looking at the history of film of any country reveals an important connection between film and literature. In the more than 100 years of Japanese film history, we can see that many film directors and scriptwriters (...)
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"CB Janes" Exhibition
CB Collection Roppongi is delighted to present "CB Janes", a group exhibition of female artists. Artists of different nationalities and ages are represented, including Marilyn Minter, who designed the (...)
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"Respontes de Artututu" Exhibition
Permanent events
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Jim O'Connell "Kabukicho"
Jim O’Connell documents Tokyo’s red-light district, making connections with Kabukicho’s working men and women, revelers and passers-by. This exhibition comprises of ten photographs shot in 2006. This (...)
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Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection
Using three floors of the main building, this permanent exhibition presents about 200 to 250 pieces selected from our museum's collection of about 9,200 works, including Japanese- and Western-style paintings, (...)
Upcoming events
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Dennis Morris "Timeless"
Morris's work adorned the cover of the Daily Mirror when he was 11, and started on the path towards becoming a professional cameraman when he met Bob Marley at 14. Perhaps most widely known for being the (...)
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Keiko Sasaoka "Waters"
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Tadahiko Hayashi "The Time of Kasutori"
This exhibition aims to reenact the representative postwar photographer Tadahiko Hayashi's past exhibition "Time of Kasutori" held at old Fuji Photo Salon in August 1980, based on the photo panels and (...)
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Design Festa Vol. 27
Asia's biggest international art event "Design Festa" with over 60,000 people attending! Design Festa is a freestyle International Art Event open to all artists, both professional and non-professional (...)
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Jiro Omura "Stimulants from Around the World"
Photographer Jiro Omura went around the world taking photographs of the different varieties of coffee, tea, alcohol and tobacco consumed by locals. Over 130 works are on display.
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"Drunken Tokyo" Photo Exhibition and Party
The Drunk Salaryman Photo Exhibition! Live music by Douglas Lee from China, DJ's Touch of Pink, Crustacean, Miki, and Photo Exhibition of Drunk Salaryman by Scott Larson. Free entry, and wear a tie around (...)
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Atsuto Otake Exhibition
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Kazuma Araki Exhibition
Graduated in 2003 from the Photographic Arts Vocational College of Japan. Exhibited at the Tokyo Wonderwall exhibition (Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo) in 2007.
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Kota Tanida "Portrait of Ice"


