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September 19, 2003 |
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| Japan’s
Ancient Capital: Photographs of Taikichi Irie
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Photo by Taikichi Irie
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On Friday, Oct. 3, a special performance and a reception will mark the opening
of Nara: Japan’s Ancient Capital: Photographs
by Taikichi Irie. Tomoko Sugawara, a member of Tempyo-
Orchestra who has recorded three CDs, will play kugo (Asian
harp) at 5:30 p.m. in the IU School of Fine Arts, Room
015.
A 6:30 p.m. reception follows in the IU Art Museum’s
Solley Atrium, where special guests will include Kenichiro
Maeda, director of general affairs for Nara, Japan, and
Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, curator of the Nara City Museum of
Photography.
Irie spent a lifetime photographing his home city of Nara.
Before his death in 1992, his archive of 80,000 works
was given to the Nara City Museum of Photography, which
he helped establish. Many of his works portray the important
historic and religious monuments of Nara and serve both
to document the evolution of Nara as a city and to delight
viewers with natural and architectural scenes.
Nara City’s Photo Museum has given 25 of Takichi’s
works to IU, which is the first non-sister city recipient
to receive a gift from the collection. The City of Nara
decided upon this “very special case” because
Michael McRobbie, vice president of information technology,
CIO and vice president for research at IU, is one of the
contributors to its sister-city link with Canberra, Australia. |
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Publication Date: August 15, 2003 + Comments: homepgs@indiana.edu
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