Enari Tsuneo Exhibition

Japan and Its Forgotten War: Showa

Jul. 23—Sep. 25, 2011

• Jul. 23—Sep. 25, 2011
• Closed Monday(if Monday is a national holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day)
• Admission：Adults ￥700／College Students ￥600／High School and Junior Hight School Students, Over 65 ￥500

It is 2011,seventy years since the start of World War Ⅱ in the Pacific, nearly eighty years since the Manchurian Incident that ultimately led to that war. The timing is right for those of us now alive in Japan to review and reconsider this history.

 
Japan and Its Forgotten War; Showa is a retrospective devoted to the nearly 40 year long career of Enari Tsuneo,who has devoted himself to documenting the forgotten Showa war and its negative consequences. After working as a photojouralist for the Mainichi newspaper, Enari went freelance in 1974. Since then, he has worked as an advocate through photography for the voiceless victiims of Japan's fifteen-year Asia-Pacific wars and to critique the attitude of postwar Japanese toward Japan's modern history.

 
For this exhibition, we have assembled 112 of Enari's photographs,including recents,as yet unpublished work from his series on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,in addition to work from False Manchukuo, The Children's Manchukuo,and Islands of Wailing Ghosts. This exhibition is, thus, an experiment in which we invite visitors to rethink the history of modern Japan.

Part 1  Islands of Wailing Ghosts 

Part 2  False Manchukuo


The Manchurian Incident Proclamation
Jilin Museum of History, Changchun, 1989

Part 3  The Children's Manchukuo


A Japanese Settlement from the Manchukuo Period
Huanan, Heilongjiang Province, 1991

Part 4  Hiroshima


Numata Suzuko (then 21)  August, 2009
Scorched Soap 
In the collection of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
(donated by Sawai Michiko). April, 2010

Part 5  Nagasaki


Taniguchi Sumiteru (then 16) July, 2008
Ground Zero: Matsuyamamachi Stratum, Nagasaki October, 2008