Tokushima Art Think

Shunichi Kadowaki bio

1913 Born in Kanonji in Kagawa prefecture
1946 Shunichi Kadowaki Exhibition in Shinwa Bank Hall in Sasebo
in Nagasaki prefecture
1961 Exhibition of Printing in Hankyu department store in Osaka,
continuing for 10 years
1962 Solo Exhibition in Kintetsu department store in Osaka,
continuing for 10 years
1964 Solo Exhibition in Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, continuing for 20 years
1965 Declined a living national treasure and jury in Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
1967 Opened Kadowaki Wood Print Museum
1973 Declined to receive the Order of Culture, and "World of
Shunichi Kadowaki" was broadcasted in Yomiuri TV
1988 Exhibited "Kukai Gyojyo-ki", 220 meters folding screen painting
in The Seto Ohashi Bridge Expo
1990 1st Taisei Corporation Solo Exhibition in Shinjuku Center Building
1993 "Shunichi Kadowaki as independent painter in Japanese art world" was
broadcasted in NTV
1994 2nd Taisei Corporation Solo Exhibition at Shinjuku Center Building
1994 Shunichi Kadowaki Exhibition at Beaux-arts de Paris L' École nationale
SupÉrieure for one month
1995 Specially invited to attend International Biennale at Lourdes in France, and
received Lourdes International Gemmail Religious Painting Biennale Award
1997 3rd Taisei Corporation Solo Exhibition
2000 88th Birthday Celebration Exhibition at Kagawa Museum
2002 "Udatsu Street Painting" on a folding screen Exhibition
2004 "Man and Woman in Peace and Harmony" Solo Exhibition in Florence, Italy
2006 Past away in August, aged 93
2014 Centennial of Birth of Shunichi Kadowaki Exhibition at Kagawa Museum

Media coverage:FIGARO japon 3, MARS 1995 No61

Kuniko Kajiyama Bio

1942 Born in Wakimachi in Tokushima prefecture
1988 Established Wakimachi Art Gallery
1990 1st Oil Painting Exhibition in Mitsukoshi Ginza
1995 2nd Oil Painting Exhibition in Mitsukoshi Ginza
2002 Visited several museums and galleries in east coast cities such as NY,
WashingtonDC and Philadelphia in USA in order to spread Shunichi
Kadowaki's art
2004 Held exhibition of Shunichi Kadowaki "Harmonization between men
and women" in FYR gallery in Florence
2005 Published book of Shunichi Kadowaki art collection,
"Soft Brain, Shunichi Kadowaki's self study, freedom, and creation"
2006 Soft Brain Original Painting Exhibition in Kitajima-cho Hall
in Tokushima 
2007 Exhibition of Awa-odori and Shikoku Pilgrimage in Tokushima City,
and Collaborative Exhibition of Owa-odori and Akira Nagayama,
Spanish violinist in Kitajima-cho Hall