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EXHIBITION

TOKYO ILLUSTRATORS SOCIETY PRESENTS MYSTERY WORLD: Slick Detectives, Elusive Thieves, Seductive Spies… and 150 Illustrators

  • DATES : Mon. August 21 - Fri. September 15, 2006

The gallery is pleased to host the 12th annual exhibition of works by members of the Tokyo Illustrators Society (TIS). For this year’s exhibition TIS members were asked to create illustrations on the theme of “Mystery.” In all, 150 illustrators created new illustrations suggestive of a mystery story – works featuring slick detectives, elusive thieves and seductive spies. Short essays by the illustrators will also be on show, and the works themselves will be available for purchase. This is sure to be an exhibition to be enjoyed not only by fans of illustrations but also by anyone who thrills to a good mystery.

  • Nobuko Yamazaki

  • Sugio Yamazaki

  • Norihisa Tojimbara

  • Masaru Shichinohe

  • Miki Ishii

  • Lisa Tezuka

Exhibition Overview
A total of 150 newly created illustrations (original drawings) on the theme of “Mystery” will be on exhibit and available for purchase. Uniform size: 30×30 cm.
* Please note that works by the following illustrators will not be offered for purchase: Takao Abe, Sonoko Arai, Shinsaku Fujita, Osamu Kitamura, Hideyasu Moto, Kunio Sato, Masaru Shichinohe, Ikuo Takeda.

Purchase Price
Depending on the illustrator, illustrations will be priced at ¥35,000 or ¥15,000 (including frame). Purchases will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis, starting from opening day.

Tokyo Illustrators Society
The Tokyo Illustrators Society (TIS) was established in October 1988. As of July 2006, society membership stands at 183. To pursue new possibilities in illustration and promote its further development, TIS actively engages in activities including hosting of exhibitions, organization of open competitions to nurture future illustrators, publishing and study seminars. TIS is currently headed by Chairman Tadahito Nadamoto, with Mizumaru Anzai serving as Administrative Director and Hiroki Taniguchi acting as Secretary General.

Exhibition Committee Members
Yuki Sasameya, Makoto Wada, Nobuhiko Yabuki, Sugio Yamazaki

Organizer
Tokyo Illustrators Society

Support
TAKEO Co., Ltd.

Cooperation
Creation Gallery G8

Participating Members (alphabetical order)

Hiroshi Abe, Mariko Abe, Takao Abe, Iku Akiyama, Takashi Akiyama, Suzy Amakane, Izuru Aminaka, Mizumaru Anzai, Ryoji Arai, Sonoko Arai, Yukio Asaka, Ryuji Fujieda, Aoi Fujimoto, Hideto Fujimoto, Susumu Fujimoto, Shinsaku Fujita, Shinichi Fukui, Zenji Funabashi, Taku Furukawa, Emiko Goto, Hiroshi Goto, Mitsuru Gotsuji, Masako Hanai, Osamu Harada, Hiroki Hasegawa, Yoshifumi Hasegawa, Kei Hayama, Kyozo Hayashi, Hisaki Hiramatsu, Ippei Hirasawa, Kaoru Hironaka, Meg Hosoki, Jun Iida, Kazuyoshi Iino, Miki Ishii, Koji Ishikawa, Chisato Ishimaru, Shun Itagaki, Hiroyuki Izutsu, Ritsuko Izutsu, Ken-ichi Kanno, Hiromasa Kato, Seiko Kawaguchi, Mizue Kawamura, Yosuke Kawamura, Keiko Kimura, Tetuya Kitada, Osamu Kitamura, Shigehisa Kitatani, Yukio Kitta, Tatsuro Kiuchi, Seijiro Kubo, Tomoko Kukita, Tadashi Kumai, Kaori Kumura, Setsu Kunii, KUNTA, Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Satoshi Maruyama, Takashi Matsumoto, Taiko Matsuo, Toru Minegishi, Eijirou Mori, Sadahito Mori, Hideyasu Moto, Kazuaki Murai, Makoto Muramatsu, Tadahito Nadamoto, Kuniko Nagasaki, Takahiro Nagino, Sadao Naito, Masayoshi Nakajo, Sachiko Nakamura, Hisako Nakayama, Yasushi Nakayama, Yumiko Nakazawa, Yenpitsu Nemoto, Yukiko Ninomiya, Shiro Nishiguchi, Miyako Nomura, Toshio Nomura, Akira Odagiri, Masamichi Oikawa, Shinko Okuhara, Yosuke Onishi, Tomoko Ono, Toshiaki Ono, Noriko Otobe, Ichio Otsuka, Yoko Oyamada, Yusuke Saitoh, Emiko Sakaguchi, Toshio Sakamoto, Etsuko Sakuta, Goro Sasaki, Yuki Sasameya, Kunio Sato, Naoyuki Sato, Maa Sekiguchi, Masaru Shichinohe, Ikki Shimoda, Nisuke Shimotani, Mitsuo Shinozaki, Yutanpo Shirane, Seijiro So, Aki Soeda, Keiji Sugita, Yutaka Sugita, Hanmo Sugiura, Hiro Sugiyama, Eizin Suzuki, Seiichi Takabe, Kintaro Takahashi, Masaaki Takauji, Ikuo Takeda, Hiroyuki Tamino, Keiichi Tanaami, Hiroki Taniguchi, Ayako Taniyama, Taku Tashiro, Shuji Tateishi, Sachiko Temmyo, Junzo Terada, Lisa Tezuka, Norihisa Tojimbara, Toshiko Tsuchihashi, Shobu Tsuchiya, Ryo Tsutsui, Jun Tsuzuki, Mineko Ueda, Ueno Amore Hirosuke, Aquirax Uno, Makoto Wada, Shin-Ichiro Wakao, Ririco Watanabe, Nobuhiko Yabuki, Mihoko Yagi, Harumi Yamaguchi, Masaru Yamaguchi, Takato Yamamoto, Pedro Yamashita, Yuzo Yamashita, Ayako Yamazaki, Masao Yamazaki, Nobuko Yamazaki, Sugio Yamazaki, Yasuhiro Yomogida, 100%ORANGE