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Shizuoka, Matsuzaki Tourism Association

Feb. 5, 2024
[Image1]Opened in 1984 (Showa 59) as the “Hall of Shikkui Trowel Paintings: Chohachi Art Museum of Izu,” it
[Image2]Opened in 1984 (Showa 59) as the “Hall of Shikkui Trowel Paintings: Chohachi Art Museum of Izu,” it
[Image3]Opened in 1984 (Showa 59) as the “Hall of Shikkui Trowel Paintings: Chohachi Art Museum of Izu,” it
[Image4]Opened in 1984 (Showa 59) as the “Hall of Shikkui Trowel Paintings: Chohachi Art Museum of Izu,” it

Opened in 1984 (Showa 59) as the “Hall of Shikkui Trowel Paintings: Chohachi Art Museum of Izu,” it exhibits about 50 works by Irie Chohachi, a master plasterer from Matsuzaki who gained renown in the Edo period. Chohachi developed a unique art form called shikkui kogane-e—plaster trowel paintings—that blends plastering techniques with the Kano school methods of Japanese painting, earning high artistic acclaim.

Skilled plasterers from across Japan came together to create the building, which showcases traditional plastering craftsmanship. The museum won the Yoshida Isoo Award—often called the Akutagawa Prize of architecture—for its fusion of Edo-era and 21st-century design, and it has attracted attention as a world-class architectural work.

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Chohachi Art Museum You can see works by Irie Chohachi, a master plasterer from Matsuzaki who gained renown in the Edo period. At 23 he went to Edo, studied Kano school painting, and mastered sculpting techniques that he adapted to his plastering craft. He developed his own art of painting with plaster and trowel on stucco. Chohachi worked actively in Edo, but many buildings there were lost to frequent fires and the remaining works were largely destroyed by earthquake and war, so only a very small number of his pieces survive outside those in Matsuzakicho. The museum is located inside Jokanji, a branch temple of the Jodo Shinshu Nishi Honganji sect. Chohachi brought two pupils from Edo to help rebuild Jokanji in 1845 (Koka 2), leaving ceiling paintings, carvings, and stucco work in the temple that are among his preserved pieces. In 2011 (Heisei 23), his works "Cloud Dragon" and a pair of "Flying Deities" were designated tangible cultural properties of Shizuoka Prefecture.
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A wide area of the southern Izu Peninsula, including Nishi-Izu and Minami-Izu, formed from submarine volcanoes and volcanic islands that erupted before Izu collided with the main island of Honshu. Senganmon, which lies at the end of a walking path, and Mt. Eboshi, seen to the right of Senganmon, are parts of a volcanic neck—the exposed "magma conduits" that once lay beneath submarine volcanoes. At Senganmon, a tunnel carved by the waves cuts through the center of the rock, forming a huge gate-like opening. Locals once likened this to the gate of Kumomi Sengen Shrine at the summit of Mt. Eboshi and called it Sengenmon, but it later became known as Senganmon, meaning it is worth a thousand kanme (an old measure of value), or "a gate worth a thousand coins."

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