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Yumiko Nolan (fashion illustrator), Reiko
Kanemaru (oil painting artist), Yoko Yoshida
(illustrator & book designer), Tomoko Tsukamoto
(Japanese painting artist) and Hiroe Nishiura
(fashion photographer), all Japanese female
artists in NY, create paintings based on
Japanese folktales in different styles.
Under the leadership of Yumiko Nolan, they
organized the NY Kikyo no Kai to exhibit their
artwork.
The folktales they used for this exhibition are:
"Uriko Princess & Little Demon" (Yumiko Nolan)
"Asako & Yuko" (Reiko Kanamaru)
"The Strange Pair of Koma-Dogs" (Yoko Yoshida)
"Forbidden Building" (Tomoko Tsukamoto)
"Urashima Taro" (Hiroe Nishimura)
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"Japanese Folk Tales"
Presented by NY Kikyo no Kai |
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Place: Consulate General of Japan, Multi
Purpose Room
299 Park Avenue (Between 48th and 49th
Streets), 18th Floor, New York, NY 10171
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Dates:
March 6 through March 30, 2006
Hours:
Monday - Friday: 9:30AM - 12:00PM, 1:30PM
- 4:00PM
Closed Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays
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"Uriko Princess & Little Demon" by Yumiko Nolan
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl
born from a big cucumber. She as named Uriko
Princess and raised by an elderly couple who
found her.
One day a prince proposed Uriko Princess to be
his wife. The day before the wedding, she was
weaving at home and a little demon came to play
a trick on her. He managed to tie her to a tree
in the backyard and disguised himself as Uriko.
He got in the Princess carriage but the raven
warned the soldiers that it was no t the real
princess. Uriko Princess was rescued and
happily married to the Prince.
"Asako & Yuko" by Reiko Kanamaru  Once upon a time, two neighbor villages stopped
their friend-ship over a trifle matter for fifty
years. One spring day, both villages agreed to
have a wisdom contest and a little girls named
Asako and Yuko were selected to represent each
village.
When they met at the top of the hill, both girls
looked exactly the same and had same birthday.
They immediately liked each other, and planned the
way to put two villages back together and happily
succeeded.
"The Strange Pair of Koma-Dogs" by Yoko Yoshida Koma-inu is a pair of two stone guardian dogs that
are seen in the front of a shrine or a temple. In
those days there were a lot of wolves in the
village called Yuhidera. An old farmer came to a
village temple to ask the priest to shelter his
boy. With night coming on the wolves surrounded
the temple, but the Koma-dogs exterminated all the
wolves. When the morning came, villagers found the
Koma-dogs bloody, and the priest and the boy safe.
The priest and the boy had no idea what happened
in the night since they were sitting in
meditation. The villagers respected the Koma-dogs
more than ever.
"Forbidden Building" by Tomoko Tsukamoto A young man met a beautiful lady in the woods and
she invited him to her residence and treated with
feast. The lady made the man promise not to open
the building. However, he was too curious and
opened the door with a key. All at once,
everything disappeared and he was standing in the
middle of the woods, except the beautiful plum
tree and the sound of birds.
"Urashima Taro"by Hiroe Nishimura Urashima Taro saved a turtle abused by children on
the shore, and he was invited to a underwater
castle called "Ryu-gu". Taro spent days of happy
time with a beautiful Princess Otohime. However,
one day he decided to go home. Princess Otohime
gave Taro a Tamate Box which she told him never to
open. However Taro opened the box since he
couldn't recognize his home or his parents.
Instantly, Taro became a very old man. Time passes
at a different speed in the ocean depths.
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