©︎HIROKO ICHIHARA / Dogo Onsenart 2018
  • 2018

    With the Word-Towel in the Basket

    Original towels by Hiroko Ichihara have been produced which imitate the special towels sold in the Main Building of Dogo Onsen. There are three types of lettering and designs which are interwoven in the towel. They sell as a set of one towel, a postcard and mandarin soap. How about taking a walk with the word-towel in a basket in Dogo streets? “Ichihara Hiroko Love-fortune Telling”, popular for her open-minded messages has also appeared for the first time.

    Duration:

    September 2, 2017 ~ February 28, 2019

    Location:

    Sold in Japanese inns and hotels of Dogo Onsen Hotel Cooperative, parts of the Dogo Shopping Arcade, Dogo Sightseeing Information Center and the Main Building of Dogo Onsen.

    Price:

    Bathing towel set (one of the three towel designs, a postcard, mandarin soap) price: 320 yen (tax included) *“Ichihara Hiroko Love-fortune Telling” can be purchased at Dogo Sightseeing Information Desk. 100 yen(tax included). In cooperation with Nunose Shrine.

    Hiroko Ichihara

    In 1985 she entered the Kyoto College of Art (currently the Kyoto University of Art and Design). After receiving her degree in visual design, she started created pieces that used words or letters as motifs in 1988. While presenting her work in museums such as the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Art Tower Mito, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, her works are also places outdoors such as the letters in a construction site outside a department store. Her other works such as placing a “Love Fortune O-mikuji” in Nunose Shrine in Osaka, as well as giving out 2000 paper bags that said, “I will shoplift.” in the U.K. and the Netherlands. Her collections are comprised of such works as “Hurry up already, Prince! Push past the people to me!” (Ariadone Productions) “I wish you would come over in the pouring rain without an umbrella with just your collar up against the wind singing a song of sad youthfulness with a huge assortment of roses in your hand. And then you would say “I’m sorry, it’s my fault.” This is how I wish you would come pick me up.” (Sanshusha). She lives in Kyoto.

    photo©︎iseki
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