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Beloved Signboards ―the Alsace Wine Route (FRANCE)―

August 31, 2025
vol.2 - Restaurants & Foods in Alsace wine route
Room #6 Currently on view
Sept to December, 2025
Photos(caption in Japanese) by YUKO

This exhibition site features a variety of unique signboards during YUKO’s travel to Alsace, France in summer 2023. Alsace landscapes seeing through each unique fretwork fascinated her, while signboards are gently telling local story from the middle age to the present like music. Visiting beautiful villages along “ the Alsace wine route” such as Riquewihr, Mittelbergheim and Strasbourg became her unforgettable memory. Please enjoy "beloved signboard collection", and feel the trip along the wine route close to you.
*vol.1 and 2(first exhibition 2023-2024) have been re-released in 2025.

Dear Friends -Spring Greetings from Japan by Tampopo A

March 19, 2025
2025.3.19 by the end of April/ Room #1
Photos exhibition with caption in English by Tampopo A
(This group is currently composed of 5-6 members)

Hello, again.
This current exhibition site is for Tampopo A’s spring greetings to their
friends abroad who love four seasons beauties, especially spring flowers in Japan. Spring reminds them of the best memories in their travel in Japan. Tampopo A may make addition to the seasonal photos of 2025 during the exhibition period.

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Beloved Signboards ―the Alsace Wine Route (FRANCE)―

May 18, 2024
vol.1 - in Alsace wine route
Room #6
Mar - July, 2025 *this will be re-released occasionally in the future.
Photos(caption in Japanese) by YUKO

Vol. 1 includes day and night scenes of the beloved ones.

This exhibition site features a variety of unique signboards during YUKO’s travel to Alsace, France in summer 2023. Alsace landscapes seeing through each unique fretwork fascinated her, while signboards are gently telling local story from the middle age to the present like music. Visiting beautiful villages along “ the Alsace wine route” such as Riquewihr, Obernai, Rosheim, Mittelwihr, Mittelbergheim and Strasbourg became her unforgettable memory. Please enjoy "beloved signboard collection", and feel the trip along the wine route close to you.
*vol.1 and 2(first exhibition 2023-2024) have been re-released in 2025.

The Year of the Dragon, Visiting the Dragons around Us in Japan

February 28, 2024
Room #5 Currently on view
Feb 28, 2024- Dec 30, 2024
Photos(caption in Japanese) by Parque de TACO
This exhibition site features the dragons. This year is the Year of the Dragon in Chinese zodiac (ETO:干支). Although the Dragon is the only imaginary animal among ETO’s twelve signs, it is very strange to see realistic dragons in sculptures, paintings, and drawings. Each photo captures dragons in shrines and temples around us in Japan. Please enjoy a variety of dragons.

Visiting the archeological sites and Inca ruins in Peru by Hisayo

September 05, 2023
Closed / Room #3
Photos(caption in Japanese) by Hisayo

This exhibition site features stones in archeological sites and ruins in and around Cusco from Hisayo’s travel diary during her Peru tour in February 2018. Visiting Machu Picchu was one of her long-time dreams from a child. Not only Machu Picchu but also the other Inca ruins such as Ollantaytambo (the ancient city fortress), the Pisac ruins, Maras Salt mines, and the Moray ruins were so beautiful and mysterious that she was deeply impressed.

End of browsing "Takopedia Nippon" in our 8th room

August 01, 2023
Thank you for your reading “Takopedia Nippon” by KANI Hiroaki in our 8th room on this web gallery. Our website’s name, “Gallery Takotsubo” is originated from this “Takopedia Nippon,” and KANI's essay room started with our website since 2021.
However, we are very sorry for notifying you the end of browsing “Takopedia Nippon” on our web.
We will restart with another essays different from “Takopedia Nippon” in the 8th room’s essay exhibits in the future.

August 1, 2023

Flowers from Spring to Summer in Japan by MASAFUJI Toshiko

March 13, 2023
2023.3.13-8.31/ Room #3 *a web exhibition for a limited period of time.
Japanese-style painting by MASAFUJI Toshiko,

The exhibition features Toshiko’s artworks on seasonal flowers from spring to summer in her daily life in Tokyo.