Art・Publishing Activities (Noncommercial-Enterprise)
Shigyo Sosyu Collection
Shigyo Sosyu is a business person, author and poet as well. With profound affection for the sublime and pure spirit of the Japanese, penetrating through the long history of our ancestors, he cordially accumulates the artworks that sublimate this spirit into its art, and wishes to pass them down to posterity. And he believes that it shall be the true power to succeed the Japanese Soul. Shigyo Sosyu senses the prominent soul of the Japanese related to the history to be a Gust of Wind. The art, which this wind has given birth to, may well be expressed as “Kaze no Katami (Mementos of the Wind),” which the history of Japan has woven. This very “Mementos of the Wind” is exactly what [Shigyo Sosyu Collection] is. The main features are Yasuda Yukihiko, Hakuin, Togo Hehachiro, Nantenbo, Yamaguchi Takeo, Hirano Ryo and others, and they could be viewed at the permanent exhibition space in Nihon Seibutsu Kagaku Co., Ltd. in Kouji-machi, Chiyoda-ku.
Shigyo Sosyu Collection Special SiteMemorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa
Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa was established to exhibit, preserve and pass down the art of Painter・Toshima Yasumasa to posterity. Shigyo Sosyu who sensed noble artistry in Toshima Art, asked Toshima to paint his portrait. From their initial encounter, they were bound by strong ties of friendship, and deepened their relationship until Toshima died of illness in 2006. Subsequently, according to the wish of Toshima and the request of his bereaved family, we have obtained hundreds of artworks and numerous mementos, and to preserve and maintain them, Memorial Gallery of Toshima Yasumasa was established in 2008. And in 2011, we have opened the permanent exhibition space in Nihon Seibutsu Kagaku Co., Ltd. in Kouji-machi, Chiyoda-ku, and displays are changed accordingly and open to the public. (Reservation in advance is necessary.)
