Michio Namatame “Learn the Myth of the King YAMA - A story of 10 supernatural rulers”

The Nippon Gallery

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The Nippon Gallery at The Nippon Club presents an exhibition by Michio Namatame, who resides in Fukushima Prefecture, with the title of “Learn the Myth of the King YAMA – A story of 10 supernatural rulers”

Michio Namatame was born in 1957, into a family of painters. His great-grandfather, Shimei Nemoto, was a painter in the Edo period who specialized in painting JUO. This term refers to ten famous rulers of the afterlife. Namatame was so inspired by his great-grandfather’s paintings of JUO, he created his own in reference to them.

JUO are well known in Japanese Buddhism as the ten afterlife rulers who judge the deceased and determine their placement in the next life. Buddhist memorial services are held on the sixth day, forty-ninth day, one hundredth day, one year and three years after the death sequentially, and it is thought by many Buddhist schools that pleading to JUO may lessen the deceased’s crimes.

At this exhibition, 20 brightly colored masterpieces of JUO will be displayed. Among them will be the red ogre, blue ogre, Reclining Buddha, horse, dragon, the elephant and the White Tiger - painted by acrylic fiber gouache paint on the Gosuke Japanese paper which is designated as an intangible cultural treasure of Japan and the Ibaraki Prefecture.
Namatame would like to use this exhibition to convey a mind frame that greatly respects life.

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from June 02, 2016 to June 08, 2016

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Michio Namatame

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