Information Compiled by Serizawa Chosuke Hours 10:00am─4:30pm A Brief Biography entrance closes at 4:00pm Closed on Sundays, holidays, during exhibition installations, and the New Year holiday period. Museum Entrance 1895 Born in Shizuoka City, second son of the draper Oishi 1945 Loses his house and all his possessions in the U.S. For information, please contact the museum office. Kakujiro. firebombing of Tokyo. In December, designs his first stencil-dyed calendar on the suggestion of Yamamoto Admission 1916 Graduates from Tokyo Higher Technical School and Shozo. Adults 300yen（200） returns to the family home in Shizuoka. 1955 Establishes the Serizawa Paper- Research Institute University Students 200yen（100） 1917 In February, marries Serizawa Tayo, also from Shizuoka as a limited company. ( )applies to groups of 20 or more. City. Takes employment with Shizuoka Prefectural Lobby Industrial Research Institute. 1956 Appointed Holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property or “Living National Treasure.” Builds a new Access 1922 Resigns from his post and returns home. Sets up the workshop. Konohana-kai, a group of young local women who use his designs for a range of craft items. 1957 Moves a traditional clapboard storehouse from Ishikoshi, [1976] JR Senzan Line Miyagi Prefecture, to Kamata. The Serizawa exhibition is held in Paris. Take the local train to Tohoku Fukushidai-mae Station. 1927 Yanagi Muneyoshi, founder of the Japanese Folk Crafts Movement, visits Serizawa and views his collection of [1913] 1963 The Print and Gallery at the Ohara Museum is The museum is about 10 minutes’ walk from the station. Enters the design department of Tokyo ema (votive plaques). Serizawa travels to Korea and on completed, showing work by Munakata Shiko and Museum Shop Higher Technical School. Sendai City Bus the ferry journey there reads and is greatly influenced by Serizawa. Yanagi’s essay “Kogei no michi” (The Way of Craft), which Sendai Station West Exit Bus Terminal :Bus#9 opens his eyes to the potential of the crafts and effects a 1966 Visits the Cataluna Museum in Barcelona and travels to (loop line via Kitayama and Shiheimachi) or (loop line via change in the direction of his life. Egypt, Turkey, Italy, France, and other countries. Receives Shiheimachi and Kitayama) to Tohoku Fukushidai-mae. the Purple Ribbon Medal. The journey time is about 25 minutes. 1928 Designs and manages the Federation of Shizuoka Prefecture Tea Cooperatives display at the National 1967 Publishes the first volume of Jisen Serizawa Keisuke Taxi Industrial Exposition held in Ueno Park, Tokyo, to mark sakuhinshu (The works of Serizawa Keisuke, Selected by Café the Artist) and [Stencil Dyeing]. Awarded the About a 20 minute ride from Sendai Station. the enthronement ceremony of emperor Hirohito. Struck Kataezome by a display of Okinawan bingata (stenciled) in Freedom of the City of Shizuoka. the exposition’s Japanese Craft Pavilion. 1968 Invited to teach a summer seminar at the State University TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY of San Diego, holding exhibitions both there and in SERIZAWA KEISUKE ART AND CRAFT MUSEUM 1929 His first textile, a wax-resist-dyed wall hanging with Vancouver and Los Angeles. Kitayama a blue ground and a design of Chinese cabbages, is Kitayama Sta. tunnel shown at the Kokugakai exhibition and wins him a Kita-Sendai Sta. Dainohara Sta. 1974 Designs a great ceremonial curtain for the main hall of scholarship prize. [1948] Tohoku Fukushidai-mae Sta. Rinnoji Kita-Sendai Sta. Begins teaching a textile-dyeing class the Chion-in Temple, Kyoto. ●Temple at his home in Aoyama. 1931 The magazine Kogei (Craft) is published for the first time

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i n 1934 Thanks to the generosity of Mizutani Ryoichi, Serizawa ●Osaki ●Tohoku Univ. Kita-Yobancho Sta. e 1981 The Shizuoka City Serizawa Keisuke Art Museum opens [1982] Hachiman Hospital moves to Tokyo with his family and staff, setting up his Subway Shrine ●Miyagi on 15 June. The French Government appoints Serizawa Serizawa on his 87th birthday, Prefectural Office home and workshop in Kamata-ku (present-day Ota-ku). ne wearing a dancing costume made by the Bus Route Li Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ku Bamileke people of Cameroon, Jozenji-dori Kotodai Koen Sta. ho To R 1937 Designs and manufactures Ehon Don Kihote (The an item from his collection. ●Miyagi Museum J 1982 Serizawa designs a set of Ten Great Disciples of the of Art Hirose-dori Hirose-Dori Sta. Illustrated Don Quixote), published by Kojitsu-an, as well Buddha for the Main Hall of the Shakyamuni Temple at Aoba-dori as the cover for Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Yukiguni Kushinagar, India, the site of the historical Buddha’s final ●Sendai City Sendai Sta. Sendai Sta. (Snow Country). Museum enlightenment. 1939 Travels to Okinawa with Yanagi Muneyoshi and others 1983 The last volume of Serizawa Keisuke zenshu (The and learns the stencil-dyeing technique at a bingata Complete Works of Serizawa Keisuke) is published by TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY workshop in Naha. [1955] Chuokoronsha. On August 19 Serizawa collapses at his SERIZAWA KEISUKE ART AND CRAFT MUSEUM Keisuke and his wife Tayo in front of the home in Kamata and is taken to the hospital. Serizawa Paper-dyeing Research Institute. 1-8-1 Kunimi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 981-8522 1984 Serizawa dies on April 5, aged 88. Tel.022-717-3318 Fax.022-717-3324 TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY http://www.tfu.ac.jp/kogeikan/ SERIZAWA KEISUKE ART AND CRAFT MUSEUM