[June 2022] Cultural Lecture｜ Professor Arisumi Mitamura (lacquering artist, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University of the Arts) “Lacquering in Japan-Talking about its charm (planned)”
Date: June 9 (Thurs.) 7:00 p.m.
Course: 5,000 yen / Banquet: 5,000 yen
Venue: Hotel New Otani “Sho-no-Ma”
Theme: “Lacquer art transmitted to Japan – Talking about its charm (tentative)”
Lecturer: Dr. Arizumi Mitamura (Lacquer Artist, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Biography: Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1946. Graduated from the Department of Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972. After serving as Minister of the Embassy of Japan in the United States, Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD, director of public relations and cultural exchange at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served as ambassador to UNESCO, ambassador to Denmark, and commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and is currently a representative of the Kondo Institute for Cultural and Diplomatic Studies and a counselor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 2013, he focused on the registration of Mt. Fuji as a World Cultural Heritage Site. He was awarded the French Legion d’Honneur Chevalier (2006) and the 2016 Zuiho Chapter of Gravity. He was awarded the 2015 Japan Academia Prize (International Category) and the 2017 Information Culture Award For International Art.
【Publications】
Yasunori Takai , a Maki-e artist loved by Europe and the United States – 2021/9/1
(Supervised) Arts & Crafts’s Art Carpet (Geisho) – 2020/4/1
The Country and Japan where The Arts Are Filled (Tokyo University of the Arts Press) – 2017/3/30WAZA’s
Five Artists And The Beautiful Japan To Tell the Future (Heibonsha) – 2013/4/111
Design Research by Christopher Dresser (19th Century British Design Series) (Geisho) – 2011/11/1
(Supervised) Charles Renee Mackintosh Textile Design (Geisho) – 2010/11/1The
Secret of Chopsticks (Satobun Shuppan) – 2009/11/15
Lacquer Kokugi no Kokugi Genealogy of Edo Makie (Ribun Shuppan) – 2009/9/1
William Morris’s 100 Designs (Geishho)–2008/4/1
(Supervised)Keren – Assertive Colors (Geisho) – 2007/5/1
(Supervised) JAPAN & KOREA Urushiarts (Senzkan) – 2006/10/1
Art Nouveau and Art Carpet Gold Book – 2006/7/1
Silk Road Art Carpet Green Book (Senkankan) – 2006/7/1
Lacquer and Japan: Pursuing the Mystery of Beauty (Ribun Shuppan) – 2005/7/1