{"id":34969,"date":"2026-04-08T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/?post_type=exhibition&#038;p=34969"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:34:05","slug":"20260919-20261220","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/en\/exhibition\/20260919-20261220","title":{"rendered":"Yamaga Seika: Boundless Imagination in Textile Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yamaga Seika, a pioneer of textile art. This long-awaited retrospective\u2014the first in 40 years\u2014will be held at Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yamaga developed <i>teori-nishiki<\/i> (handwoven brocade), a distinctive form of textile art in which the artist oversees every stage of production, from design and material selection to the weaving process itself. Through representative works and archival materials, this exhibition traces the career of this little-known Kyoto-born artist, featuring tapestries created for the Gion Festival as well as spatial decorations produced in collaboration with architect Murano Togo, among other works.<br \/>\nBorn into a family engaged in letterpress printing in Kyoto, Yamaga Seika (1885\u20131981) began studying <i>Nishijin-ori<\/i> textile design and nihonga painting in his teens. He later became a student of Kamisaka Sekka, under whom he further expanded the scope of his artistic practice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yamaga gained recognition after developing <i>teori-nishiki<\/i> (handwoven brocade), a form of tapestry weaving in which the artist personally undertakes every stage of production\u2014from design and yarn selection to the weaving process itself. In 1927, he was awarded a Special Prize in the newly established Arts and Crafts category of the Imperial Art Exhibition (Teiten) for his work <i>Handwoven Brocade: Dutch Ship<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yamaga\u2019s choice of subject matter was remarkably diverse and unconventional. For festival decorations and ritual hangings, he employed traditional motifs such as celestial maidens and cloud dragons, while works submitted to official exhibitions\u2014including wall hangings\u2014featured strikingly modern imagery such as locomotives, rockets, and Tokyo Tower. While devoted to the preservation of textile traditions across the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras, Yamaga was also a rare figure endowed with a bold, forward-looking creative spirit.<br \/>\nThis exhibition marks the first retrospective of Yamaga Seika\u2019s work in 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31866,"parent":0,"template":"","exhibition_cat":[],"class_list":["post-34969","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/34969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/34969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34970,"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/34969\/revisions\/34970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyotocity-kyocera.museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition_cat?post=34969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}