A Message from the Director
Please visit the World Book Design Exhibition 2019-20.
The World Book Design Exhibition season has come again. Due to the rapid progress of digitization, there has been widespread concern that paper books would be shoved into a corner. However, contrary to expectations, the beauty of paper books and the joy of reading them seem to be more appreciated than ever according to the comments we received.
At the exhibition, about 90 books collected from around the world will be exhibited. These books were selected as winners in various competitions held in different countries. Due to the novel coronavirus, we will have to slightly change the method by which we exhibit this wonderful and rare selection of books, but we hope that you will enjoy this year’s exhibition nonetheless.
Koichi Kabayama
Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo
Director's Profile
Koichi Kabayama
Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo
Born in Tokyo in 1945. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1965, and after completing the masters degree course at the university became a research assistant at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University in 1969. Became an assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1976, and later became a professor. Served as the Director-General of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo from 2001, becoming Director of the Printing Museum, Tokyo in 2005, a position he still holds. His fields of specialization are Western history and Western cultural history.