Ken'ichi Murata "The Girl as Goddess Kannon" <sold out>
When you gently put your hands on their naked bodies and close your eyes, a blissful state of ecstasy appears behind your eyes.
-- Kotaro Iizawa (photo critic)
The 4th Kenichi Murata photo book, following "Sleeping Princess", "Pandora's Key" and "Sakashima no Lilith".
Kenichi Murata has reached a new frontier after overcoming Thanatos!
Kenichi Murata has been visiting old temples since he was a child and was fascinated by Buddhist statues.
The theme that Murata has been warming up for many years is finally published as a photo book!
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Compared to the Kannon Bodhisattva, which the sculptor embodied the essence of the various Buddhas by inspiration, my false Kannon, which imitates only the shape, is of course completely different and does not even come close.
However, because he is a living person, changes occur.
When you play Kannon, the model is sometimes wrapped in an aura of affection.
I was able to find my "salvation" in this seemingly playful pseudo-Kannon photography by showing "charity" in the pseudo-Kannon.
--Kenichi Murata
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Models: Nano Nana, Aika Yoshioka, Eri Kitami, Kanako Tama, Sakuya Chirchiru, Sumire Sanjouin, Luna Tsukino, Moira Kuchikakeya, Anna Aoi, Anna Eight, Kaede, Asuka Amane, Maria, Toko Morinomiya, Salome, Tessa Kuragi
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★ Kenichi Murata [HP]
■ Main solo exhibitions
1996.9 "Rowdy Princesses" Photo Exhibition / Kanda, Tokyo Delta Mirage (Construction: First solo exhibition by Kotaro Iizawa)
1998.5 "Rowdy Princesses" Photo Exhibition / Gallery Isis, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto
1998.10 Solo exhibition / Keibunsha, Enfer, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
2000.10 "Princess's Ark" / Shinsaibashi, Osaka Gallery Nadar
2003.6 "Shoujo God Living in Darkness" / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu
2003.10 "Shoujo God Living in Darkness" / Kyoto Neutron
2006.2 "JAPANESE PRINCESS" Publication Commemoration / Ginza, Tokyo, Span Art Gallery
2006.5 "KEN-ICHI MURATA" / Rome Mondo Bizarro
2007.11 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" Publication Commemoration / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu
2007.4 "KEN-ICHI MURATA" / Rome Mondo Bizarro
2009.4 ``Muma of the library'' / Kyoto Wright Shokai
2009.10 "Photographer in the Attic" / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu
2010.10 "Shadow Tale" / Berlin His Abnormal Gallery
2011.5 "Magic living in a girl" / Kyoto Light Shokai
2011.6 "Magic that lives in a girl" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo
2013.6 Kenichi Murata Photobook "Sleeping Beauty" Commemorative Exhibition / Jinbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo
2014.6 "Shoujo Kannon Exhibition" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo
2014.10 "Kenichi Murata coloring retrospective exhibition" / Kodenma-cho, Tokyo Miura Jiro Gallery
2015.5 "Lilith in the Mirror" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo
2015.11 "Kogare no Shoujo" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo
2016.4 ``Girl in the Spring Breeze'' / Otsu Gallery, Osaka
2016.5 "Viewing the artist's 20th anniversary from an angle" exhibition / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo
2016.11 "Travels of My unconscious Kenichi Murata 'Genealogy of Witches' Publication Commemorative Exhibition" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo
■ Major group exhibitions
1998.2 Two-person exhibition with Mr. Jun Nakamura / Art Space Bireiki, Shibuya, Tokyo
2010.1 Group Exhibition / Mondo Bizarro, Rome
2010.7 Group Exhibition / Berlin Tacheles
2010.9 Group Exhibition / Poland Abnormal Gallery
2012.10 Two person exhibition with Kotaro Iizawa / Jimbocho Gallery, Tokyo
2013.3 "Alice Fantasy Kitan" / Bunkamura Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
■ Publications
1997 "Contemporary Remix Manyoshu/SONG OF LIFE" (Mitsumura Suiko Shoin)
1998 "Red Fish" ~Aja Photobook~ (Seisei Publishing)
1998 "Red fish" ~ Aja CD liner notes (Tokuma Shoten)
2005.5 "JAPANESE PRINCESS" (Edition Reuss)
2006 Anthology photo book "The New Erotic Photography" (TASCHEN)
2007.9 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" published (Edition Reuss)
2009.11 Anthology art book "Declaration of New Japanese Aestheticism" (Hakuraku)
2009.10 Anthology photo book "New Nude Photography" (nEgoist)
2010.9 "Naked PRINCESS" (Edition Reuss)
2012.4 "UPSKIRT VOYEUR" (Edition Reuss)
2013.6 "Sleeping Princess" (Atelier Third)
2014.2 "Pandora's Key" (Atelier Third)
2015.4 "Sakashima no Lilith" (Atelier Third)
2016.5 "Secret Dreams of Erotic Princess" (Edition Reuss)
2016.10 "Genealogy of Witches" (Genkosha)
Published in other magazines
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B5 size, 96 pages, 3,200yen (consumption tax not included)