Contributions

2025.1.28

【AKIRA UENO   Owner of Gogatsudo 】 On 24 September last year, the ‘Gogatsudo’ moved from Kyobashi, where we have been doing business for 46 years, to Nihonbashi.

2024.9.19

【EIJI KUROKAWA　director of Kurokawa gallery】 This is my first time writing a blog like this, and when I thought about what to write about, the first thing that came to mind was music, so I decided to write about it.

2024.6.22

【TSUGUMI FUJITA　Painter・directer of ROD GALLERY】  A year has passed since ROD GALLERY opened in Kyobashi. This is one of the few contemporary art galleries in this area. I am a pain...

2024.3.16

【IZUMI Suzuki　Owener of Izumi】  Recently, I have come across many counterfeits of ancient Chinese ceramics in advertisements in antique magazines, on Internet homepages, and at auctions. You could say it's a co...

2024.1.27

【YASUNAO Hayashi】  One thing I started doing after the COVID-19 pandemic hit is this. I stopped taking the train and started commuting by bicycle. At first, I started doing this to avoid trains wi...

2023.10.19

【BUNGO Kamise from NANAYA 】   I forgot the details, but when I saw the movie Yves Saint Laurent (2014), the genius Saint Laurent, who became a darling of the times, was walking through what appeared to be an antiques s...

2023.10.2

【 Iwao Hoshi  from Gallery Ichibanboshi 】  When I hear Nihonbashi, the first thing that comes to my mind is not ``Nihonbashi Bridge'' or ``Nihonbashi as the starting point of the road network,'' but ``Nihonbashi Takash...

2023.9.2

【つつみ美術　堤里志】 When I became independent, the price of Chinese art was not soaring like it is now, and the topic of discussion among dealers specializing in antique ceramics was, ``What kind of Li Dynasty did you...

2023.8.26

【大熊美術　大熊織雄】 　うちの店は日本橋のまさに端に位置しています。店からほんの二、三歩踏み出せば千代田区神田です。そんな弊店から京橋まで歩くと30分程度のちょうど良い散歩コースとなります。僕の場合は途中途中の古美術店に...

2023.8.22

【ギャラリーこちゅうきょ　伊藤潔史】 電車通勤の車中で読書に勤しむ向きは乗客全体の１割程度かとみるのですが、私はその少数派のひとりを自任しています。片道40分ほどゆえに往復だけでも相当の時間を読書にあてることが出来ます。