Minoru SabaMay 5
Saw a couple of Taro Okamoto designs (like the ones shown in Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum's "Art in Daily Life" Exhibition) mingling with tradition carp streamers flying from a local apartment balcony🙂
#TaroOkamoto #koinobori #ChildrensDay
https://taro-okamoto.or.jp/en/exhibition/art-in-daily-life/
linlinDec 3, 2025

Arranged "Tower of the Sun" at Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum.

岡本太郎記念館の「コップのフチの太陽の塔」

#TaroOkamoto #statue #太陽の塔 #岡本太郎

linlinNov 17, 2025

The “Tree of Children” created by Taro Okamoto.

#子供の樹 #岡本太郎 #Aoyama #TaroOkamoto #sculpture #photography

Minoru SabaJun 22, 2025
"Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto... completed the giant mural [Myth of Tomorrow] in September 1969, but the finished work was never on display—his client had gone bankrupt before the hotel’s completion. The mural then went missing for decades." (9 March 2018)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/myth-of-tomorrow
#TaroOkamoto #MythOfTomorrow #Shibuya #Tokyo
Myth of Tomorrow

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

Atlas Obscura
JihaireJun 9, 2025

Le journal Le Monde vient de publier un article sur Naoki Urasawa, dont la série Monster (et son adaptation en anime) est l'une de mes préférées (supplantée uniquement par les mangas de Nausicaa de la vallée du vent de Hayao Miyazaki)

Ca me fait penser que, si vous êtes fans de 20th Century Boys (ou 21th...), vous pouvez aller voir l'expo sur Tarō Okamoto (qui sait parler le français) au musée du quai Branly.

https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2025/06/09/naoki-urasawa-mangaka-au-japon-on-a-conscience-que-la-vie-peut-prendre-fin-a-tout-moment-a-cause-de-catastrophes_6611747_3246.html

#quaibranly #tarookamoto #naokiurasawa

Naoki Urasawa, mangaka : « Au Japon, on a conscience que la vie peut prendre fin à tout moment à cause de catastrophes »

« Dans ma bulle ». Invité d’honneur des Rendez-vous de la bande dessinée d’Amiens, l’auteur des mangas « Monster », « 20th Century Boys » et « Asadora ! » est sans cesse à la recherche d’un équilibre entre culture populaire et récit exigeant.

Le Monde
The Japan TimesJun 7, 2025
From hijacking the Tower of the Sun monument in Osaka and wandering the Chernobyl nuclear evacuation zone, to whimsical cats and puppets — the medium has changed, but Kenji Yanobe’s message hasn’t. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/06/07/art/kenji-yanobe-cats/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #kenjiyanobe #tarookamoto #towerofthesun #expo03970 #exhibitions #hypermuseumhanno
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?

The spacesuited felines will be familiar to those who have visited the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka or Tokyo’s Ginza Six shopping complex last year.

The Japan Times
Raoul BreugelmansApr 1, 2025
Inside the Tower of the Sun by Taro Okamoto at the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Osaka, Japan.

#TowerOfTheSun #TaroOkamoto #Expo70 #Osaka #Japan
Raoul BreugelmansApr 1, 2025
The original golden face of the Tower of the Sun by Taro Okamoto at the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Osaka, Japan.

#TowerOfTheSun #TaroOkamoto #Osaka #Japan
Raoul BreugelmansApr 1, 2025
The Tower of the Sun by Taro Okamoto at the Expo ’70 Commemorative Park in Osaka, Japan, with plum trees in full bloom.

#TowerOfTheSun #TaroOkamoto #PlumBlossom #Osaka #Japan
Raoul BreugelmansApr 1, 2025
The Tower of the Sun at the Expo ’70 Commemorative Park in Osaka, Japan. The structure is a massive piece of art designed by Taro Okamoto for the 1970 Japan World Exposition.

#TowerOfTheSun #TaroOkamoto #Osaka #Japan