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Chemins d’orients, Voyage Hirayama Ikuo (Book) travel diary of the Japanese painter, Hirayama Ikuo on the Silk Road, paperback, like new, bilingual French / Japanese. About 125 pages. Exhibition in Paris for the 150th anniversary of Franco-Japanese relations. Many full-page color illustrations. Exhibition catalog from May 21 to June 28, 2008.
Ikuo Hirayama, 1930-2009, is a Japanese painter, pacifist and active activist for nuclear disarmament. His major works include Hiroshima Shohenzu, The Holocaust of Hiroshima, compared by some to Picasso’s Guernica, or his Silk Road paintings, depicting desert landscapes of Iran, Iraq, China, a painting of the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan, as well as a series of paintings on the arrival of Buddhism in Japan.
A museum is dedicated to him at the Kosanji Buddhist temple on Ikuchijima Island in Onomichi (Hiroshima Prefecture).
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