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A World of African Handcraft: The Junzo Kawada and Machiko Ogawa Collection

Name: A World of African Handcraft: The Junzo Kawada and Machiko Ogawa Collection
Start: 2026-07-10T15:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-09-05T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Setagaya Art Museum

◇ When

July 11 – September 6, 2026

Saturday – Sunday

⌖ Where

Setagaya Art Museum

1-2 Kinuta-koen, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-0075

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Anthropologist Junzo KAWADA (1934–2024) surveyed culture from the three vantage points of Europe, Africa, and Japan in what he called “cultural triangulation.” Ceramic artist Machiko OGAWA (1946–) lived in West Africa with Kawada, her husband, for three and a half years in the 1970s and has since continued to create her own distinctive “vessels.” Together they collected over 600 African craftworks—calabashes, baskets, fabrics and more—some of which still adorn their residence. This stunning collection is being displayed in public for the first time in four decades.

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