Contemporary artist Hiroko Nakakita has published "The Breath of Silence" (沈黙の呼吸), her first art book, through Live Art Books Co., Ltd. The book is released to mark the 25th anniversary of her career as a painter.
The book contains text and photographic materials that follow the artist's creative path, along with color plates of works selected from her early pieces through to her latest. By tracing how her expression has changed over a quarter century, it explores how her artistic world has developed, along with her thinking and sense of beauty, and gathers 25 years of her work in a single volume.
It is on sale at the Live Art Books online store, the Hiroko Nakakita online store, and the Hiroko Nakakita gallery.
About "The Breath of Silence"
- Author: Hiroko Nakakita (中北紘子)
- Translation: 池田哲
- Editing: 櫻井拓 (のほ本)
- Design: 大西正一
- Project management: 長井秋子
- Cooperation: Gallery Hiroko Nakakita
- Printing direction: 川村佳之, 小林花, 平田浩二
- Printing and binding: Live Art Books Co., Ltd.
- Publisher: Live Art Books Co., Ltd.
- Size: 250 × 183 mm
- Pages: 128
- Publication date: July 19, 2026
- ISBN: 978-4-909341-25-9
- Price: ¥8,800 (tax included)
Where to Buy
- Live Art Books online store
- Hiroko Nakakita online store
- Hiroko Nakakita gallery: 1F Ship Kobe Kaigan Building (シップ神戸海岸ビル), 3 Kaigandori, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0024
About Contemporary Artist Hiroko Nakakita
© K. Kurigami
Hiroko Nakakita was born in Hyogo Prefecture. After completing the Oil Painting major in the Department of Painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, in 2006, she began working in earnest as a painter. She continues to create from studios in Kobe and California and shows her work in Japan and abroad.
Born and raised in a traditional household, she paints on the theme of the conflict between reason and emotion, and between constraint and freedom. Her work is characterized by colors born from overflowing emotion and by drips of flowing paint. In recent years, a new motif, "the cycle of life and rebirth," has been added.
In 2021, she opened her own gallery, "Hiroko Nakakita," in the former foreign settlement in Kobe. Not limiting herself to painting, she aims to develop her work in new fields beyond painting, and also co-develops products that draw on her distinctive worldview. She enriches her work with the spirituality found in Japanese culture, such as kimono, tea ceremony, dance, and crafts, further expanding her range of expression.
- Official website: https://hiroko-nakakita.com/
- Official Instagram: @hirokonakakita_official
