< Sharaku >

The Mumbai Festival Committee and the Consulate General of Japan, Mumbai have organized an Exhibition of ‘Sharaku Exhibition Interpreted by Japan’s Contemporary Artists’.

The exhibition will be held from Saturday, 24th January, 2009 to Friday, 30th January, 2009 from 11.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. P.L. Deshpande Art Gallery, (Near Siddhivinayak Temple), Prabhadevi, Mumbai.

Consul General Mr. Hirotsugu Hagiuda will inaugurate the Exhibition on Saturday, 24th January, 2009 at 11.00 a.m.

The exhibition takes its theme Toshusai Sharaku, an ukiyo-e artist from the Edo era known throughout Japan and the world for his bust portraits of kabuki actors and presents posters, paintings and three dimensional works by today’s artists as they freely interpret this foremost master of the ukiyo-e print. The exhibition experiments with the individual re-interpretations of Sharaku, an artist active in Edo (present day Tokyo) some two hundred years ago. The exhibition is made up of three sections : “Reproductions of Sharaku” , “Sharaku in Graphic Art”, and “Homage to Sharaku”.