Ken'ichi Murata "Yoimachi-Hime in the thirteenth night"

A dream scene and a childhood memory.

13 secret nights where Eros and Thanatos intersect.

The origin of Kenichi Murata, a forbidden hand-colored photo book!

I saw myself in the girls in the film and enjoyed feeling accepted as a woman.

--Tama (girlish watercolor painter)

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“Fear of death” lies darkly at the core of my work.

Excessive eros has a good affinity with death.

Working on the theme of Eros and Thanatos gave me an improvement in the "image of death".

In this way, he continued to draw Eros as a religious painting of "self-education" for self-salvation, imitating animism.

The works recorded here are works from the period 2005-2013, which is exactly the era of “self-education”.

--Kenichi Murata

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A number of works that express forbidden erotic fantasies like peering into secret rituals in another world, unlike digital photography.

The hand-colored photographs are organized into 13 stories, each of which is a collection of photographs that Murata's unique world view is condensed with a small story written by Murata, such as a dream he saw and an essay.

One night piano lesson

Two nights, a violin sigh

Three nights Earth observation

Four nights Judith

Fifth night: The Nightmare of the Bookshelf

Six night mushroom phobia

Seven nights Camera Woman Kitan

Eight night Ogitsuhime

Nine night flower coffin

Tenth night Emergence

11th night sailor suit

twelfth night magical girl

Twelfth night Accordion

◎Model = Salome/haku/Sakuya Chiruchiru/Kanako Tama/Rumi Tanizaki/pochi/Nananano (in order of page appearance)

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★Kenichi Murata Photo Exhibition "Yoimachihime Thirteenth Night Publishing Commemorative Exhibition" will be held!

July 1st (Friday) to 17th (Sunday), 2022 Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Location: Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

13:00-19:00 Admission free

   Tel.03-3295-1160

For details → http://www.jinbochogarou.com/

*This book will also be sold at the venue.

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★ Kenichi Murata [HP]

■ Main solo exhibitions

1996.9 "Rowdy Princesses" Photo Exhibition / Kanda, Tokyo Delta Mirage (Construction: First solo exhibition by Kotaro Iizawa)

1998.5 "Rowdy Princesses" Photo Exhibition / Gallery Isis, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto

1998.10 Solo exhibition / Keibunsha, Enfer, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto

2000.10 "Princess's Ark" / Shinsaibashi, Osaka Gallery Nadar

2003.6 "Shoujo God Living in Darkness" / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu

2003.10 "Shoujo God Living in Darkness" / Kyoto Neutron

2006.2 "JAPANESE PRINCESS" Publication Commemoration / Ginza, Tokyo, Span Art Gallery

2006.5 "KEN-ICHI MURATA" / Rome Mondo Bizarro

2007.11 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" Publication Commemoration / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu

2007.4 "KEN-ICHI MURATA" / Rome Mondo Bizarro

2009.4 ``Muma of the library'' / Kyoto Wright Shokai

2009.10 "Photographer in the Attic" / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu

2010.10 "Shadow Tale" / Berlin Abnormal Gallery

2011.5 "Magic living in a girl" / Kyoto Light Shokai

2011.6 "Magic that lives in a girl" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2013.6 Kenichi Murata Photobook "Sleeping Beauty" Commemorative Exhibition / Jinbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2014.6 "Shoujo Kannon Exhibition" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2014.10 "Kenichi Murata coloring retrospective exhibition" / Kodenma-cho, Tokyo Miura Jiro Gallery

2015.5 "Lilith in the Mirror" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2015.11 "Kogare no Shoujo" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2016.4 ``Girl in the Spring Breeze'' / Otsu Gallery, Osaka

2016.5 "Viewing the artist's 20th anniversary from an angle" exhibition / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2016.11 "Travels of My unconscious Kenichi Murata 'Genealogy of Witches' Publication Commemorative Exhibition" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2017.6 "Shojo Kannon" Publishing Commemorative Exhibition - The Girl as Goddess Kannon / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2017.11 "Collection of Angels" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2018.6 "Adventure with penguins" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2018.11 "Descendants of Miko" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2019.6 "Magic of the Moon" Publication Commemorative Exhibition / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2019.9 "Magic of the Moon" Publishing Commemorative Exhibition / Osaka Otsu Gallery

2019.11 "Mother's daughter" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2020.6 ``Five years ago, I encountered the muses.

2020.12 "House of the Goddess" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2021.1 "The House of the Goddess - Commemorating the publication of a photo book -" / Osaka Otsu Gallery

2021.6 "Kenichi Murata Photographer 25th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2021.12 "Goddess Band" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

■ Major group exhibitions

1998.2 Two-person exhibition with Mr. Jun Nakamura / Art Space Bireiki, Shibuya, Tokyo

2010.1 Group Exhibition / Mondo Bizarro, Rome

2010.7 Group Exhibition / Berlin Tacheles

2010.9 Group Exhibition / Poland Abnormal Gallery

2012.10 Two person exhibition with Kotaro Iizawa / Jimbocho Gallery, Tokyo

2013.3 "Alice Fantasy Kitan" / Bunkamura Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo

2022.4 "Another Mahoroba" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

■ Publications

1997 "Contemporary Remix Manyoshu/SONG OF LIFE" (Mitsumura Suiko Shoin)

1998 "Red Fish" ~Aja Photobook~ (Seisei Publishing)

1998 "Red fish" ~ Aja CD liner notes (Tokuma Shoten)

2005.5 "JAPANESE PRINCESS" (Edition Reuss)

2006 Anthology photo book "The New Erotic Photography" (TASCHEN)

2007.9 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" published (Edition Reuss)

2009.11 Anthology art book "Declaration of New Japanese Aestheticism" (Hakuraku)

2009.10 Anthology photo book "New Nude Photography" (nEgoist)

2010.9 "Naked PRINCESS" (Edition Reuss)

2012.4 "UPSKIRT VOYEUR" (Edition Reuss)

2013.6 "Sleeping Princess" (Atelier Third)

2014.2 "Pandora's Key" (Atelier Third)

2015.4 "Sakashima no Lilith" (Atelier Third)

2016.5 "Secret Dreams of Erotic Princess" (Edition Reuss)

2016.10 "Genealogy of Witches" (Genkosha)

2017.5 "Girl Kannon" (Atelier Third)

2018.10 "Secret Dreams of Erotic Princess 2" (Edition Reuss)

2018.11 "Angels Collection" (Atelier Third)

2019.6 "Magic of the Moon" (Atelier Third)

2020.10 "Goddess' House" (Atelier Third)

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