A Social Evening to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of JSoS

Monday 17th October 2011

at The Koyama Restaurant, 20 Forrest Road, Edinburgh EH1 2QN

Meeting from 6.30 pm onwards with Dinner starting at 7 pm

Welcome in the 25th year of The Japan Society of Scotland by celebrating with other members in a convivial atmosphere in the new Koyama Japanese restaurant.

The set meal of Mixed Sushi Bento will cost £17per head and will include California Roll (4pcs), salmon nigiri (1pc), tuna nigiri (1pc), prawn nigiri (1pc),salmon sashimi (2pcs), and teriyaki chicken served with miso soup and rice. The Koyama will provide some complimentary starters. Please note that members will be responsible for their own drinks bills.

To ensure accuracy in numbers wishing to attend we are requesting payment in advance for this event, for which The Membership Secretary would request cheques, payable to The Japan Society of Scotland, to be sent to him at his address below. Members are very welcome to bring guests. We would welcome confirmation of attendance and payment as soon as possible and certainly by Friday 14th October at the latest.

This event will prove very successful and we look forward to seeing many of you there. Should any member wish to bring a guest along they would be most welcome.

David Russell

Membership Secretary, Japan Society of Scotland

27 Murrayfield Gardens

Edinburgh EH12 6DG

Tel:0131 337 5016

e-mail:david.mrussell@btopenworld.com

Details here.

TOHOKU-SCOTLAND

17th to 25th October 2011

in the Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art

Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF

TOHOKU-SCOTLAND is an exhibition of sculptures, paintings, prints, collages and film by 32 artists from Tohoku (Northeastern Japan) and Scotland.

Official Opening on Monday 17th October

5:30 pm Welcome Reception

6:00 pm Official Opening: Mr Masataka Tarahara, Consul General of Japan and Professor Chris Breward, Principal of Edinburgh College of Art will officially open the exhibition. Followed by a a special performance by InChorus, Lothian and Borders Police Choir and Tayside Police Choir who will debut their “Musical Postcard to Japan’

Any benefit from sales of the 76 page full colour catalogue, and 40% of sales from the exhibition will support projects with Tohoku artists working towards recovery in the regions devastated by the ‘Great East Japan Earthquake’ and subsequent tsunami and nuclear disaster. This is a rare opportunity to buy work from some of Tohoku and Scotland’s top artists.

Price list available on request: Contact: Kate Thomson info@ukishima.net for more information

The exhibition will then be open from 18th-25th October 10am-5pm. Admission free

List of artists:

Scotland: the Boyle Family, Peter Bevan, John Hunter, Elspeth Lamb, David Mach, Kate Davis and David Moore, Jacki Parry, Keith Rand, Campbell Sandilands, Bill Scott, John Taylor.

Tohoku: Hisashi Momose, Takeshi Honda, Shigenobu Yoshida, Shinichi Mori, Sumiko Sawamura, Kenta Motomura,

Megumi Honda, Minako Ishikawa, Fumiaki Aono, Sachiko Hayasaka, Eiji Kido, Osamu Kouke, Hironori Katagiri,

Kate Thomson, Takuya Okada, Kazue Sato, Saiko Sato, Aeneas Wilder, Yoshitomo Saito, Takuya Onozaki.

Special thanks to Edinburgh College of Art and our sponsors:

Sir Gerald and Lady Elliot, Club 8 Studio Morioka Inc., Atelier Nord Inc., Japan Society & Japan Foundation

Contact: Kate Thomson info@ukishima.net for more information

The Japanese Garden in Britain- Design, History, Conservation and Management

Saturday 8th October, 10.30am to 4.00pm, at Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston PlaceEdinburgh EH3 9DF

The theme of this study day is to examine and discuss the issues involved in designing and maintaining a Japanese style garden in Britain. Julia Rayer Rolfe will begin with the history and development of Japanese Gardens in Britain. Sam Youd will continue, using Tatton Park garden as an example, with the general conservation of historic gardens and the specific management necessary for their upkeep. Takashi Sawano and Haruko Seki, 2 distinguished British based designers, will talk about creating new Japanese gardens here and abroad and the sensibilities needed to capture that very ‘Japanese’ essence. We will conclude with Alan Johnson on a Sesshu garden in Japan. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

A photographic exhibition ‘Visions in Paradise’ will be staged at the ECA to accompany the study day.

For further details and to reserve a place please contact ellengraham@btinternet.com

Students at the ECA will be able to attend the lectures and discussions for free.

Living Buddhism in Retrospect and Prospect

— A Photographic Exhibition and Related Events —

12th September to 6th October 2011

in the Foyer of the Main Library, at the University of Edinburgh

Living Buddhism was an illustrated book and accompanying exhibition on the Buddhist religion. The British Museum published the book and hosted the exhibition in 1989. The photographs, the work of the renowned photographer Graham Harrison, grew partly out of a major exhibition of the Museum’s Buddhist artefacts in 1985, Buddhism: Art and Faith, curated by Wladimir Zwalf. Graham Harrison undertook two long journeys around Asia in 1984–5 and 1987, in addition to an earlier journey around Korea in 1983, to produce his photographic record of this major world religion. Andrew Powell, who accompanied Graham Harrison on the last of those journeys, provided the book's evocative descriptions of Buddhism in the modern world. The collection has now been transferred to Edinburgh and the forthcoming exhibition and related events are a celebration of the revival of this important resource and the starting point of a long-term project which seeks to maintain and develop the impetus behind the original venture. Details here.