1983 » Japan » Scénická a kostýmní tvorba národní expozice

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In 1867, the rule of the Tokugawa government ended in Japan and waves of Western civilization began to lap the shores of this country. Theatre was no exception. Where there had been only such theatrical arts as Noh and Kabuki, Shakespeare and Chekhov became familiar names. In 1983, Tokio has about seventy theatres, ranging from large ones seating 3000, to small studios seating less than 100, where a great variety of theatrical activities are taking place. Shakespeare is produced repeatedly. Also Chekhov, Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams. Cyrano de Bergerac has just opened. Many original plays are also written and produced. A dozen theatrical companies stage several productions each every year. In addition, five or six large theatres run by big theatre enterprises open new productions every month for a limited monthly run. The fourteen designers participating in the Prague Quadrennial from Japan this year are all working in these various theatres. They are energetically designing for random types of plays using all kinds of techniques, based on realism, simplified realism, anti-realism, etc. All of them are aware that what they are doing is not always right, but they also know the ways to present their own art within the framework of the present state of Japanese theatre. We stage designers in Japan do not have a union, but we have formed an association with designers working for television, called Japan Stage & Television Designers Association (JASTA). We are steadily making our way towards our common interest, improvement of our professional position and technical development. We have organized biannual exhibitions which tour Tokio, Nagoya and Osaka and present before the general public the practices of stage and television design which are little known to them. This year, the exhibition is held at a department store in Shinjuku, the most developing section of Tokio, from the end of February to March. It exhibits works publicly solicited and a special section is devoted to the ways to tie the obi sash over our traditional kimono, some old forms of which have disappeared from our daily life but are preserved in the theatre. Through such activities, we are working to make the public more aware of the theatre and its ideas.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Jasuhiro MIHARA (YASUHIRO Mihara)

Specialization: set designer
Additional information: Born in 1937 in Tokyo. Stage designer for the musical programmes of the Tokyo Broadcasting System, lne. He participated in the PQ in 1971, 1979 and in 1983.

Exhibiting works

• Mitsumasa Šinoznaki: (Only One), (Seibu Theatre Tokio), 1981, Director: M. Šinozaki,
  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• : (Hikari no Kanatani), (Seibu Theatre ), 1981, Director: Mitsumasa Šinozaki,
  
  
  
• Shinji Itasaka

* 1929, Wakayama
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: He graduated from Kyoto University, currently teaches stage art in Osaka University. He has been working predominantly for the New Drama Theatre and for the Theatre of Traditional Dance. He is at work as designer of the Yomiuri Broadcasting. His artistic creation can be characterized as neorealistic. To his most important works belong sets to original dances and modern dramatic creation. He is a member of the Japan Stage and Television Artists Association. In 1971, 1975, 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1995 he participated in the PQ.

Exhibiting works

• : (Red Beard), (Jubin Chokin Hall Osaka), 1982, Director: Kinji Ooka,
• : (Bridge over the Genkai Sea), (Jubin Chokin Hall Osaka), 1982, Director: Kagefumi Morimoto,
• Kaoru Kanamori

Additional information: Ex-Director of the Nissei Theatre, Deputy of the Kanamori Corporation. His most important works are the designs to Cyrano de Bergerac (1964), Undine (1965), The Devil and the Good God (1965), Andromache (1966), The Lark (1967), King Lear (1967) and The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1969). He is Director of the Japan Stage and Television Artists Association and a member of the SHIKI Troupe, the Contemporary Theatre Association and the Japanese Institute for Theatre Technology.

Exhibiting works

• : (The Seagull), (Nissei Theatre), 1980, Director: A. Serban,
• : (The Elephant Man), (Nissei Theatre), 1980, Director: Keita Asari,
  

  

  

  
  
  
• Shigeo Kawamori

Additional information: Graduated from the Faculty of Aesthetics at the Imperial University. He is at work in the Costume Department of Haiyuza. His most important works are the designs of theatre costumes to Hamlet, to The Treepenny Opera and to The Marriage of Figaro. He is a member of the Japan Stage and Television Artists Association.

Exhibiting works

• : (Macbeth), (Seibu Theatre), 1982, Director: Tomoe Riju,
  

  
  
  
• Takehisa Magofuku

Additional information: Graduated from the Tokyo Industrial College. He was at work at the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). At present he acts as free-lance stage designer. His most important designs are the stage sets to the plays We Are Not an Angel and The Stork. The characteristic feature of his works is an expressive realism of his stage settings.

Exhibiting works

• : (Platonov ), (Theatre Konikunija), 1981, Director: Toširo Hajano,
  
  
  
• : (The Admirable Crichton), (DORA), 1982, Director: Saburo Ouči,
  

  
  
  
• : (Genealogy of Ambition), (Jomiuri Theatre), 1980, Director: Joji Kawaike,
• Hachiro Nakajima

Additional information: Born in 1923 in Tokyo. Since 1946 he has been working as a stage designer at the Tokyo Stage Design Workshop Kisaku Ito. He designs sets for traditional Japanese theatres, including the Kabuki theatre. He participated in the PQ in 1971, 1975, 1979 and in 1983.

Exhibiting works

• : (Genži Monogatari), (Kabukiza Theatre), 1982, Director: Šigeo Dobaši,
• Senkiči UČIJAMA

Additional information: Born in 1929. Stage designer. He has been working predominantly for the Dance Theatre and Drama Theatre in Nagoya.

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Exhibiting works

• : (Giselle), (Nagoja Šimin Kaikan), 1979, Director: Senkiči Učijama 2,
  

  
  
  
• : (Coppélia), (Nagoja Šimin Kaikan), 1980, Director: Leico Nisina,
• Jasuhiro Išii

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Exhibiting works

• : (Ičigen no Koto), (scéna décors stage design Imperial Theatre), 1981, Director: Tošikijo Masumi,
  

  

  
  
  
• Jasuo Kobajaši

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Exhibiting works

• : (Woman of the Year), (Nissei Theatre), 1982, Director: Hiroši Sato,
  

  
  
  
• Otoja Oda

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Exhibiting works

• : (Saikaku Ičidai Onna ), (Sinbaši Enbujo), 1982, Director: Matsutaro Kawaguči,
  

  

  

  
  
  
• Jasuhiro Ohaši

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Exhibiting works

• : (Sinju Koi no Jamatoji ), (Takarazuka Bow Hall), 1980, Director: Jun Suganuma,
• : (My Miracle), (Takarazuka Bow Hall), 1983, Director: Akio Miki,
  

  

  

  
  
  
• Šigeo Okajima

* 1927, Tokyo
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: Set designer, collaborating with Tokyo Engeki Ensemble. He participated in PQ 1983, 1987, 1991.

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Exhibiting works

• : (The Good Woman of Setzuan), (Brecht-Raum Theatre), 1981, Director: Tsunetoši Hirowatari,
• : (A Man is a Man), (Brecht-Raum Theatre), 1982, Director: Tsunetoši Hirowatari,