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Dr ROBERT ORGAN |
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MORE MEMORIES OF JAPAN 2025 |
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MORE MEMORIES OF JAPAN
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‘More Memories of
Japan’ is an exhibition of photographs by Dr Robert Organ and his wife, Mrs
Kazuko Organ. It was held at Ikeda New
Century Hall at Taplow Court near Maidenhead between January and April 2025. The exhibition
follows on from a successful exhibition titled ‘Memories of Japan’ held in
Torfaen Museum, Pontypool, South Wales in 2019. The photographs have been accumulated over
many visits to Japan since Robert and Kazuko were married. The images comprise familiar Japanese
subjects, such as Mount Fuji, shrines, Japanese gardens, the atomic bomb
peace memorials, Miyajima, koi, snow monkeys, Noh theatre, kimonos,
cosplayers and castles. They also
include images which are particularly important to SGI, such as Soka
University, The Toda
Memorial Park and President Toda’s House in Hokkaido. Interspersed amongst these would be
slightly less familiar but interesting images. The photographs are all printed digitally
using pigment ink for image permanence.
They drive from scanned in images taken with film cameras and from
digital cameras. Details of Dr Robert
Organ can be found in the ‘about’ section of this website but those of Kazuko
are below. Mrs
Kazuko Organ: Kazuko
Organ (nee Kobashi) was born in Kurashiki in Japan where she lived until she
married Robert. They now live in
Maidenhead. She is a life-long and
dedicated SGI member and set up the Cambridge University Choose Life Society
(later the Cambridge University Soka Philosophy Society). She is now the District Leader of
Maidenhead Riverside. Kazuko was
brought up in an artistic environment.
Her father was a famous calligrapher who won many awards in Japan as
well as exhibiting in China and the USA.
His artistic talent rubbed off on Kazuko as she is a naturally gifted
craftsperson, artist and photographer.
She worked for Kurashiki Ohara Museum of Art which is Japan’s oldest
private museum of Western art. More
recently, she organized an art class in Slough. Click here or on themes on
the left hand side of the screen to see the photographs |