Kappa Figure Contest Exhibition
The Kyoto International Manga Museum proudly announces that as part of the contents festival "KYOTO Cross Media Experience 2010" during which various events concerning manga and popular culture will be held, it will host an exhibition of award winning Kappa sent in for the "Kappa Figure Contest".
The "Kappa Figure Contest" is a Kappa figurine contest held by the Kaiyodo Hobby Center (inaugurated in April 2011) of which Miyawaki Osamu is the project leader. There was a lot of interest from the public the first time the contest was held, in 2009, and it garnered a lot of high quality entries, and the second time many of the contestants got noticed in the public eye.
Kappa have been around in various incarnations since ancient times. We hope you will be overwhelmed not just by their shapes but also by the stories and messages of the over seventy kinds of Kappa exhibited.
At the same time as this exhibition, a related exhibition of over 300 Kaiyodo figurines, "The Genealogy of Figurines: From Dogu to Kaiyodo"is being held here too (September 9-26); we hope you will enjoy them both.
| Period | September 16 - 26, 2010 |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 2 Floor, Gallery 6 |
| Admission fee | Free *However, the general admission fee to the museum is still required. |
Organizer: Kyoto International Manga Museum
Cooperation: The Kappa Figure Contest Executive Committee / Ryuyukan Inc.
About The "Kappa Figure Contest"
It is a contest for creators of Kappa, first held in 2009, by the founder of Kaiyodo Co., the company that manufacturers the world's greatest figurines, who is also the project leader and director of the Kaiyodo Hobby Center (inaugurated in April 2011 in Shimanto Town, Kochi Prefecture), Mr. Miyawaki Osamu. Because Kochi is the home of Mr. Miyawaki's father, it was made as part of a nature park with as a theme "creating a town for the inhabitants of Shimanto and the hobbies and collections of Kaiyodo".
Professional artists as well as amateurs can compete in the contest and can choose the material and dimensions of their work freely. There were 363 entries for the first contest last year, and this year there were 475.
The Chairman of the jury is Makino Keiichi, a manga artist and the director of the International Manga Research Center. Among the other renowned jury members are Mr. Chiba Tetsuya (manga artist) and Murakami Takashi (contemporary artist). All winning entries will be presented at the figurine festival "Wonder Festival" hosted by Kaiyodo.
