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rakuen

2025/Duo exhibition

I depict the quiet traces of memory that remain within the flow of time.

There are no explicit emotions within these scenes; instead, they hold the lingering traces of someone's existence.

Through motifs such as girls, plants, water, and light, I seek to visualize the space between reality and dreams, and between memory and the present.

In this series of works, I explored translating these afterimages into the figures of girls through the contrast between Paradise (Utopia) and Fallen Paradise (Dystopia). As the works developed, the boundary between these two worlds gradually dissolved, emerging as a single landscape.

Each work exists independently, yet when viewed together, they reveal narrative layers and quietly connect with the memories of each viewer.

I hope you will gently step into this world.

(From the artist statement for Duo exhibition)

"The Traveler at Dawn"

Japanese painting, F4 size

2025.10 

Wooden panel, cloud-patterned hemp paper, mineral pigments, white pigment, ink.

"I'm searching for the light."

Japanese painting F3

2025.9

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

"cage of spring"

Japanese painting F3

2025.10

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

"Neither sinking nor floating"

Japanese painting F8

2025.10 

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

"feel"

Japanese painting F3

2025.11

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

"think"

Japanese painting F3

2025.11 

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

"Things that bloom within"

Japanese painting SM

2025.9 / Private collection

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

"breath"

Japanese painting F0

2025.10 / Private collection

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

"moment"

Japanese painting F0

2025.11

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

"The Last Garden ~Flowers Embrace Iron~"

Japanese painting P6

2025.10

Wooden panel, kumohadamashi, mineral pigments, shell white,  sumi-ink.

DM design

DM address completed 3.jpg

Takumi Kohira & Yumi Yoshida Duo Exhibition "-rakuen-"

November 22-27, 2025 / Ginza Modern Art (Ginza, Tokyo)

The event has ended.

© takumi.kohira

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