Yamori Issei: a Sculptor, 2024

About

Date

January 10 - March 31, 2024

Location

Permanent Collection Gallery 2

Hours

9:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m.

Closed

Mondays (except February 12), February 13

Admission fee

Adults: 310 (240) yen
Students: 210 (160) yen
High school students and younger: Free
Prices in parentheses are for groups of more than 20 persons.
Persons with disability, one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge.

Organization

■Organized by
Mie Prefectural Art Museum

■With the grant of
Mie Prefectural Art Museum Assistance Foundation

 

Exhibition Overview

Yamori Issei was born in 1881 (Meiji 14) in what is now Tsu City, Mie Prefecture, and entered the Tokyo School of Fine Arts' Department of Sculpture in 1904 (Meiji 37). While he was a student at the school, he exhibited works at exhibitions and expos, and was active as a sculptor, and it is also known that he worked as a technician at the Mie Prefectural Industrial Research Institute and the Mie Prefectural Ceramic Research Institute in the early Showa period. In addition to the sculpture he studied at art school, he created ornaments, vases, and ashtrays, and was also involved in the production of bronze statues erected in Mie Prefecture. After the war, he continued to create mainly terracotta (unglazed pottery), and passed away in 1961 at the age of 80.

Until now, Yamori's name has rarely been mentioned in the history of modern Japanese sculpture. However, in Tsu, where Yamori was born and spent the latter half of his life, his works have been carefully preserved for a long time by people who love him. For several years now, the Mie Prefectural Art Museum has been researching this sculptor's work with the cooperation of its collectors. As a result of this effort, this exhibition broadly introduces Yamori Issei, a sculptor who lived in Tsu.

⇒ List of the Works