Not so much these days, but in the past it was popular among Japanese people to watch “Chushingura,” Japanese […]
Kawanishi City Music and Lantern Festival
A festival called Kawanishi Oto Akari was held in Kawanishi City, Hyogo on last Saturday November 11, 2017. Th […]
Takeda Castle Ruins, a castle in the sky
Takeda Castle, also known in Japan as the “castle floating in the sky”, is not so far away from ou […]
Kid’s handicraft – Halloween hat
We made a handicraft witch hat for Halloween at the kid’s art class. What you need Black paper Orange pa […]
2016 Osaka Ikeda Solo show ended
This is how we set up the show. Adjusting the distance between the paintings. The show is ready to start. So m […]
June harvest
The onions we planted last November became ready to harvest. We should harvest them on a sunny day because rai […]
Kawanishi City Street Exhibition
Creating a new work for “Kawanishi City Street Exhibition” held during February 21 to March 6th. G […]
Yakuno Basalt(Genbugan) Park
The other day, we visited Yakuno Basalt(Genbugan) Park located in northern Kyoto prefecture. These even, colum […]
(日本語) 絵画のような朝霧の風景
Our village is usually covered in dense fog in the mornings through Autumn to Spring here in Yakuno, Hyogo. Mo […]
Temari-Sushi
Isn’t it great to have a meal by the garden? Today we had a friend came over so we made a welcome dish. […]
About children’s art
-Being the member of 25th MOA Children’s art selection board – We have had some natural disasters […]
Hand-made Gallery Guesthouse
This is our hand made guesthouse. BBQ and sunbathing on the wood deck on a sunny day will be nice, don’t […]
Sakura trees by our gallery
Our gallery is surrounded by the cherry blossoms during the spring time. The Sweet cherry tree, or “Seiy […]
Solo show 2012 in Osaka
Shizuhiko Hogafuchi held a solo show at Blanche, a gallery in Osaka on April 2012. We exhibit mostly abstract […]
We saw a bee swarm today
On a sunny spring day, we saw a strange bag-like object hanging from a tree near our gallery entrance. It is m […]
Kyoto Newspaper
Our gallery in Yakuno city appeared in Kyoto newspaper with the title “A collaboration of art and photog […]
One man show at “Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art”
Shizuhiko Hogafuchi did a one man show at “Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Oji Branch Haradanomori Galle […]
Picked up on Japanese Art media.
Shizuhiko Hogafuchi was picked up on Japanese Art Media, “Window of Art” about his September 2009 […]
Shizuhiko Hogafuchi was picked up on news media for his large scale exhibition.
Shizuhiko Hogafuchi’s exhibition at “Hyogo Harada no Mori Gallery” in September 2009 has rec […]
Local media wrote about our gallery
Hogaart Gallery was picked by the local newspaper. Shizuhiko Hogafuchi, an artist dreams about creating art co […]
The start of my DIY gallery building journey
We first came to Yakuno Kyoto, in late autumn around 2000. Me and my wife were looking for a place to open a g […]