Okayama Painters

The entire process takes place in a preparation chamber installed with nine boiling kettles, each 12 meters in diameter. Top quality beer are often made using only the first press of the wort. Fermenting takes place inside 129 huge tanks for a period of one or two months. Visitors can try the first and second press of the wort for comparisons as well as up to three glasses of draft beer drawn straight from the fermenting tanks. The Inland Sea coast, an important area of industry and commerce, is the most populous part of the region. Large rice-producing areas are concentrated along the plains of the Sea of Japan and the Okayama Plain.
Foreseeing that electricity would inevitably revolutionize industry, Magosaburo Ohara established Kurashiki Dento (now the Chugoku Electric Power Company, Inc.). The power plant contributed to the region by providing electricity to Kurashiki. It came from a family villa of the Mitsuis, an industrialist conglomerate.

Ohara Museum of Art opens the house to the public for special viewing twice a year in spring and autumn. After graduating from the Department of Inter-media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, he has been invited to participate in numbers of solo and group exhibitions, including The Vision of Contemporary Art in 2020. He creates art based on the process of capturing natural phenomena with fluctuation such as light, shadows, waves, or the connections between human beings. He pursues the reality in the present world where the technology is advancing, and the environment is transforming. OHARA HOUSE KATALYZER was the primary residence of Ohara Magosaburo and later generations of the Ohara Family.
This two-story building is made of bricks reinforced by steel-frame, covered with granite, based on a hipped roof structure with slate roofing. Three dome-shaped dormer windows with stained glass are placed 屋根塗装　 on the rooftop at the front. It was used as the Chugoku Bank Kurashiki Hommachi Branch until 2016. ART FRONT GALLERY is pleased to announce the group show “Blooming charm of the materials; Signs of Spring”.

The café was designed by Yakushiji Kazue, who had also designed the museum's main building. The building was originally the office of a company that managed farming land and other assets rented out by the Ohara Family. Ivy that architect Yakushiji had planted around the building grew to completely cover the exterior walls.
Machiya Traditional townhouses with clay tile roofing are disappearing. To preserve them in them in Kurashiki, the Kurashiki Machiya Trust restores historical buildings and turns them into guesthouses – like Onsaka no Ie – a great alternative to staying in a conventional hotel room. Modern facilities and a contemporary design blend into traditional interior, make experiencing Japan both comfortable and unique. Onsaka no Ie stands on massive granite blocks arranged like a castle fortification that bear witness to a long history. Inside, however, the atmosphere is light because of wood and paper walls and the high, sloped ceiling with exposed beams.
Along with rapid economic growth comes environmental pollution in industrialized countries. At Kurabo, we struggled with the treatment of alkaline wastewater and flue gas from our factories. To bring alkaline wastewater down to within pH standard values, expensive acid neutralizer would be required. In addition, sulfur oxides , the cause of air pollution and acid rain, would have to be removed from the flue gas of the factory boiler and incinerator.

The building exterior is in Indian sandstone for its color and texture in keeping with the natural surroundings. The stones come from the Deccan Plateau, India, as result of careful selection processes through several expeditions. The spacious lobby enjoys plenty of natural light coming through the wall-to-wall atrium window, 8 m high and 32 m wide. The ceiling gently slopes down toward the window to frame the view over the ocean. Halfway up the mountain is the Washuzan Visitor Center, another superb viewing spot. “The palace hall known as Okama-den is where the myth-based ritual Narukama Shinji is held.
Built in the sukiya style, it represents an eighteenth-century town residence of wealthy classes in Japan. His upper-floor atelier has been restored, where it is believed he painted his famous masterpiece, the Red and White Plum Blossoms . As you walk along the canal lined with graceful weeping willows, you will see warehouse buildings once used to store rice, featuring the unique local architectural style of white plaster with black tile.

They launched a plan and secured the blessings and investment of Kurashiki’s wealthiest family, headed by Koshiro Ohara. Many residents of Okayama Prefecture were firmly behind this plan for the establishment of this new business, and they rushed to buy shares in the company. With Koshiro making up the remainder of the necessary investment, the mill’s realization was in sight. On March 9, 1888, Kurashiki Spinning Works was launched with Koshiro as its inaugural president.
Among the 4,000 items in the museum's collection are ceramics, handblown glass, rugs, fancy mats, straw jackets, woodblock prints, wooden crafts and other folkcrafts. Around the museum are traditional-style Japanese houses and shops selling traditional crafts such as pinwheels, mobiles, handmade paper objects, bizenware pottery, and wooden toys. It is worth the time to seek out the Kurashiki Spinning Works, an old textile site. Featuring Renaissance style, this was designed by Yakushiji Kazue and built to house the Daiichi Godo Bank Kurashiki Branch in 1922.

This series of works is made of particles being cut out from Kanshitsu plate by laser-cutter and linked to each other by tiny acrylic custom-made rivets to make a shape. The shape is designed by a generative design environment (Rhinoceros + Grasshopper) and is representing the esthetic of a pattern of linked ovals that is found on the surface of artificial traditional products in anywhere in the world. She learned the basics of the glass crafts at the Tokyo Glass Art Institute and has been energetically producing the artworks in her atelier since 2018. She pursues the beauty of the unique colors, transparency, and brilliance of the glass by blending colored glass, free blowing, cutting, and polishing by hand. The unique color scheme of her works reminiscent of the rainbow and the modeling by the cutting technique attracts great attention.
Visitors can enjoy the various sights of the flowing water reflecting the flowers that bloom in each season or the colors of autumn foliage. Before long, our development and manufacture of polyurethane foam extended into applications such as car seat cushions and building insulation material. This led us to combine the technologies we had built up to create synthetic wood that did not corrode or change color, and that had impact resistance and excellent durability and weather fastness. This development coincided with increasingly advanced needs in industrialized housing, prompting us to enter the field of housing construction material. Today, our chemical products division collaborates with other Kurabo divisions to fuse technologies for the semiconductor-related products field. We are focusing on the business of functional film that utilizes resin-blending technology in order to create high-value-added products.