*Dec. 19, 2015* NEW! 1) The daughter of Yanagi Kōkan(柳光観), Suzuki Toshiko, herself Japanese painter living in Fukushima prefecture, visited Okinawa on the occasion of an exhibition “Three generation of Yanagi Kōkan family: splendour of time” held in the Okinawa Prefectural Museum, projected by happ (Okinawa Prefectural Museum supporting NPO) from February 25th to March 2nd 2014. She looked at our HP and assured that the images in Shinzato-ya(新里屋)are most likely drawn by her father Yanagi from the viewpoint of the style. Mr. Ōshiro Seiei showed her his blacksmith god image and Ms. Suzuki judged the image was drawn by Yanagi in his youth. 2) The blacksmith god image at Ōshiro family in Itoman was donated to the Prefectural Museum through the mediation of Mr. Ōshiro Seiei at the date of May 27th 2015. We hope the badly damaged image would be repaired as soon as possible to regain the original state.
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