A Message from the Director
Jōmon and Yayoi DNA in Japanese Package Design Exhibition will open
The Modern Japan Package Exhibition is held each year at the Museum. This year we will simultaneously host an event looking at packaging from a different perspective under the title of Complexity and Simplicity: Jōmon and Yayoi DNA in Japanese Package Design. Through this collaboration between the Museum and the Japan Package Design Association (JPDA), we are quietly confident that we have arranged an exhibition full of bold new ideas.
Under the two different design policies of Jomon and Yayoi and the complex and the simple, Japan’s modern package design has developed a broad field. In order to examine this, we have created an exhibition of around 140 items. We look forward to seeing how this new challenge will be received. The exhibition will be held until October 3 and we cordially welcome your visit to the Museum.
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.