Fuji Mountain Art Festival 2026 is now being held. Thinking about "living" across 17 venues in Yamanashi Prefecture.
The quadrennial Fuji Mountain Art Festival 2026 is being held at 17 venues in Yamanashi Prefecture under the theme "Living".Summary
The Fuji Mountain Art Festival 2026 is being held from October 17 to November 15 at 17 venues across Yamanashi Prefecture (Kofu/Kyoto area, northern area, and Kainan/Mt. Fuji area). This quadrennial wide-area touring art festival takes place in Yamanashi Prefecture at the foot of World Cultural Heritage Mt. Fuji, and this year's theme is "Living." Participating artists include Hiroshi Asakawa, Yuki Asano, Yataro Amemiya, Yasumichi Ishida, Masatsugu Ito, Nagato Iwasaki, Yosuke Ueda, Genki Ueno, Nobuko Okubo, Makoto Otsuka, Tomohiko Oyori, Naohiro Okamoto, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, Emi Kashiwabara, Yoshitsugu Kato, Atsushi Kaneoya, Fusako Kayama, Jun Kitagawa, Yohi Kudo, Kyoko Kumai, Hazuki Koga, Fumika Kobayashi, Sho Saito, Yusuke Saito, Izumi Sakamoto, Tokuro Sakamoto, Masataka Sato, Yoshihiro Suda, Kenichi Takagi, Akari Tada, Yoshihiro Tanamachi, Kiyoshi Nakagomi, Yasunari Nakagomi, Naoto Nakada, Miko Shinkawa, So Hasegawa, Taiichi Hattori, Yuka Hiroshima, Asami Fukazawa, Junko Maruyama, Reiwa, Katsutomo Wakabayashi, Kazuhito Watanabe, Takako Watanabe, and hellowakana. The festival showcases contemporary art by domestic and international artists at unique venues including museums, galleries, old private houses, temples, shrines, gardens, sake breweries, and cultural facilities such as the Nezu Memorial Hall, Kai Zenkoji Temple, Nirasaki Omura Memorial Park Keisetsu-ryo, Meiji Emperor Enno O-Koyasumi-sho, Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum, Paul Rusch Memorial Hall, Former Futabaya Sake Brewery, and Gakuroku Suien. In addition to viewing artworks, visitors can experience "making" themselves through a variety of workshops including making original onigawara tiles, parent-child daruma wonderland, sumi-suri workshop, gem polishing, bamboo craft, handmade washi paper, incense fireworks making, garden drawing, and Japanese painting. Furthermore, music, dance, and performances will be held, including a "Seidan Tea Ceremony" themed on tea history, a collaboration between the Japan Aviation High School Taiko Team and CHUTA/YULI, a Stringraphy/ITONE concert, and performances at Kaizenji Temple.
(Source：美術手帖)