Tanekuni Koyanagi

• Category
  Lacquerware
• Techniques
  Maki-e
• Born
  1944 -
• Membership
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  Japan Association for Urushi Cultural Heritage

Style

Maki-e (sprinkled picture decoration) took hold in the Edo and Meiji periods; I want to reexamine the concepts underlying the techniques and materials, and their application from the perspective of maki-e being a true part of contemporary Japanese culture.

Biography

• 1944
  Born in Tokyo
• 1963
  Graduated from the Arts Course at the Tokyo Metropolitan Komaba Senior High School
• 1966
  Participated in the restoration and repair works on the National Treasure Chuson-ji Konjiki-do
• 1967
  Studied as an apprentice under OOBA Shogyo (Upon MATSUDA Gonroku’s instruction)
• 1968
  Selected for the 16th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition at the first attempt
• 1971
  Assisted TAGUCHI Yoshikuni in the repair works on “Kyocho Taikan” displayed at the Okura Museum of Art (Upon MATSUDA Gonroku’s instruction)
• 1973
  Participated in the production of sacred treasures for the Shikinen Sengu at Ise Jingu
• 1974
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
• 1977
  Engaged in lacquerwork restorations of Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Museum Lacquerwork Restoration Department) until 1993
  1978: His work was purchased by the Crown Prince, to be offered as a gift to the Queen of the Netherlands upon his visit to the Netherlands
• 1981
  Completed the Training Course in Repairing Cultural Assets (Art Crafts) held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Certification No. 3)
• 1983
  1st All-Japan Traditional Arts and Crafts Selected Artists Exhibition (Hosted by Mainichi Shimbun)
• 1984
  2nd All-Japan Traditional Arts and Crafts Selected Artists Exhibition (Hosted by Mainichi Shimbun)
• 1986
  Judge for the first time at the Exhibition of Japanese Traditional Urushi Works
• 1987
  Judge for the first time at the 34th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 1988
  Secretary at the Japan Kogei Association Urushi Works Section
• 1992
  Completed restoration works on the Shell Inlaid Octagonal Pedestal, a National Treasure, at the Chuson-ji Sutra Repository (In charge of lacquerwork)
  Director at the Japan Kogei Association -2000
• 1995
  Submitted to the Setagaya Art Exhibition (Submitted successively until the final exhibition)
• 1996
  His work was collected by the Setagaya Art Museum
• 2003
  Selected to submit to the “Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan – Celebrating 50 Years of the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition”
• 2007
  Adviser at the Japan Association for Urushi Cultural Heritage Donated his work to the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
• 2009
  Lecturer of the children’s workshop at the Heisen Exhibition, hosted by NHK and the Setagaya Art Museum
• 2012
  Donated his work to the Wajima Museum of Urushi Art

Awards

• 1973
  Awarded at the 20th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 1974
  Awarded at the 21st Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition