Toshinobu Takeuchi “Japanese Sakura”

Fujifilm Square

Finished

Artists

Toshinobu Takeuchi

Toshinobu Takeuchi is widely-regarded as Japan’s foremost landscape photographer. In 1985, he published his seminal work Tenchi shomon (Listening to the Voices of Heaven and Earth), which set him firmly on course to become a leading landscape photographer. Since then he has travelled north as far as Hokkaido and as far south as the Yaeyama Islands in all seasons to capture images of pristine landscapes that Japanese people have gazed upon since time immemorial. Among his vast body of works, his images of landscapes in the spring are particularly well known. This is because they feature sakura, or cherry blossoms.
Takeuchi once remarked, “In the spring of each and every year, I am filled with an overpowering urge to take to the road in search of sakura. Maybe it’s because the power of the spirit of sakura resides inside me.” This exhibition features a selection of photographs donated by Takeuchi to the Okazaki City Art Museum including his published works Sakura, Sakura Koyomi, Yamazakura and Ippon Sakura Hyappon, as well as a number of new and unpublished works.

Schedule

Mar 15 (Fri) 2019-Apr 3 (Wed) 2019