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Feb. 25, 2024
[Image1]Chohachi Art MuseumYou can see works by Irie Chohachi, a master plasterer from Matsuzaki who gained
[Image2]Chohachi Art MuseumYou can see works by Irie Chohachi, a master plasterer from Matsuzaki who gained
[Image3]Chohachi Art MuseumYou can see works by Irie Chohachi, a master plasterer from Matsuzaki who gained
[Image4]Chohachi Art MuseumYou can see works by Irie Chohachi, a master plasterer from Matsuzaki who gained
[Image5]Chohachi Art MuseumYou can see works by Irie Chohachi, a master plasterer from Matsuzaki who gained

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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Nationally Designated Important Cultural Property Iwashina School Completed in 1880 (Meiji 13), this school features namako walls and shrine-temple–style architecture. Blending Matsuzaki’s traditional building techniques with Western architectural elements, the structure is celebrated as a masterpiece of wooden construction and the oldest school building in the Izu region. This two-story wooden hipped-roof building is symmetrical, and its exterior is finished in namako walls. The nameplate above the main entrance, reading “Iwashina School,” bears the calligraphy of Sanjo Sanetomi, then Lord Minister of the Interior, and the dragon carved above it is said to have been whittled by master carpenter Irie Chohachi using only a chisel he borrowed. With its striking Western-influenced design, the building ranks among Japan’s older Western-style schools, alongside Kofu’s former Rikusawa School and Matsumoto’s former Kaichi School. It was designated a National Important Cultural Property in 1975 (Showa 50). In Matsuzaki, strong local support for education raised donations to build the school; more than 40 percent of the total construction cost came from contributions.
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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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