Period: September 9 (Wed) to September 22 (Tue), 2026
Venue: Hankyu Umeda Main Store, 7th Floor, Koto Koto Stage 71
From Wednesday, September 9 to Tuesday, September 22, Hankyu Umeda Main Store's 7th-floor Koto Koto Stage 71 hosts WOVEN TIME for Your Own Room, an event that reframes art as a device for renewing oneself and proposes a new way of living. Visitors can encounter the overwhelming density of time each artist has honed over a lifetime, and experience the luxury of forgetting the everyday for a while. Bringing that beauty into one's own room, and engaging with it in daily dialogue, becomes a way of continuing to discover a new, still-unseen self — a device for creating "beautiful time." Over these 14 days, visitors can savor a rich, luxurious experience: tasting, in an instant, the accumulated weight of time within everyday life.
Featured Artists
Maeda Ryoji | Dye Artist
Born in 1974 in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture; now based in Taketa, Oita Prefecture. He creates under concepts such as "something you don't need but is nice to have" and "making what I find beautiful, what I want to make." By layering dyed sheets of thin fabric (silk organza), the pale colors of each layer overlap and shift into deep, gentle hues, producing works with depth and a soft sense of three-dimensionality.
Mori Takaya | Sculptor
Born in 1981 in Tamana, Kumamoto Prefecture; now based in Taketa, Oita Prefecture. He creates work under the theme of "connecting memory" — from the past and present toward the future, from minus to plus. He has produced numerous outdoor monuments for museums and public facilities, and in recent years has also taken on commissioned work for companies as well as community-building projects such as the Kibaru Project, which is reviving vacant houses and a former sake brewery in Taketa, Oita Prefecture.
"8祝ぐ, Infinty" W445 × H335 × D330 mm (bamboo, lacquer, rattan, gold leaf)
Nakatomi Hajime | Bamboo Artist
Born in 1974 in Osaka Prefecture. A bamboo artist. During his university years, he was struck by the work of Living National Treasure Shono Shounsai (生野祥雲斎) and set his sights on bamboo art; he is now based in Taketa, Oita Prefecture. He has shown his work at museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and has also created artworks for The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo, Kyoto, and elsewhere.
"Inori-chan" (いのりちゃん) W450 × H450 × D72 mm (wood panel, acrylic paint, colored pencil)
Matsuura Takashi | Terracotta Sculptor (Artist)
Born in 1973 in Moji, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. He studied the fundamentals of sculpture at Tokyo Zokei University and researched contemporary sculpture in the graduate program at the University of Tsukuba, and currently serves as director of the 門司港美術工芸研究所 (Mojiko Art Research Institute). He now creates terracotta works with their own distinctive sense of the world, using the coil-building technique ("wazumi") handed down since the Jomon period.
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