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KUMIKO HAMILTON
Exhibition Information
Venue: Auditorium Rainier III
Period: 2026/1/30-2/1
Venue: Kohoku Public Hall ( HP )
Date: 2025/11/15 ( Saturday ) 12:30
Free Admission
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Venue: Yamate 234 ( HP )
Place: 234-1 Yamate-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama City
Access: MAP
Opening hours: 10:30-16:30 ( 13:00- on the first day only )
Period: 2025/07/31-08/04
Venue: Café Shingtong ( HP )
Place: 43-9, Takanodai, Kodaira-shi, Tokyo
Access: MAP
Business hours: 11:30-18:00 on weekdays, 13:00-18:00 on weekends and holidays
Closed: Every Monday
Period: 2025/05/07-06/30
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Venue: National New Museum of Art ( HP )
Period: 2024/03/06-16
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Venue: The Museum of Kyoto ( HP )
Period: 2025/03/14-16
Venue: 7artscafe ( HP )
Period: 2025/03/1-30
Opening Koto Live: 2025/03/2 ( Sunday ) 15:00-
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Venue: Kioi Hall ( HP )
Date: 2025/02/23 ( Sun, Holiday ) 14:00-
All unreserved seats 4,000 yen ( TICKET )
Venue: Kohoku Public Hall ( HP )
Date: 2024/11/16 ( Saturday ) 12:00-17:00
Free Admission
Venue: Auditorium Rainier III
Period: 2024/11/1-3
Venue: Abeno Harukas Kintetsu Main Store, Kintetsu Art Hall ( HP )
Period: 2024/05/17-19
Venue: National New Museum of Art ( HP )
Period: 2024/03/07-17
Venue: Cafe doudou ( HP )
Period: 2024/01/01-15
Venue: Daniel's Wine Club ( HP )
Period: 2023/10/01-12/27
Venue: 7artscafe ( HP )
Period: 2023/03/01-31
Izumi Japanese Calligraphy Art Lesson
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Venue: Gallery Hiyoshi ( HP )
Period: December 6-7, 2025, 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Koto Performance by Students
December 6, 2025, 1:00 PM
December 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
Workshop
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Venue: 7artscafe ( HP )
Address: Yokohama, Naka-ku Sueyoshicho 1-3 Okonogi Bldg. #2, 1st floor
Price: 3,500 yen per class
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am ( 90min )
Date: Held on the second Saturday of every month starting in February 2025.
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Venue: 7artscafe ( HP )
Address: Yokohama, Naka-ku Sueyoshicho 1-3 Okonogi Bldg. #2, 1st floor
Price: 3,500 yen per class
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am ( 90min )
Date: Held on the second Saturday of every month starting in February 2025.
June 14, 2025
July 12, 2025
August 9, 2025
September 13, 2025
October 11, 2025
November 8, 2025
December 13, 2025
Venue: Rental Space Hiyoshi ( MAP )
Address: 1-5-38, Hiyoshi-Honcho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa
3 minutes walk from Hiyoshi Station West Exit
No parking available
Date: 2025/01/5 ( Sunday ) 13:00-14:30 ( 90min )
Adult 4,000 yen | Child under 15 years old 2,500 yen
Venue: [ Maple ] Shinjuku Takashimaya-mae ( MAP )
Address: 4-1-22 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Shinjuku Komuro bld.704
Aprox 2 min. walk from South Exit of JR Shinjuku Station
There is a Family Mart on the first floor of the building.
No parking available
Date: 2024/06/10 ( Monday ) 11:00-12:40 ( 100min )
Venue: Rental Space Hiyoshi ( MAP )
Address: 1-5-38, Hiyoshi-Honcho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa
3 minutes walk from Hiyoshi Station West Exit
No parking available
Date: 2024/05/23 ( Thursday ) 11:00-12:40 ( 100min )
Venue: [ Maple ] Shinjuku Takashimaya-mae ( MAP )
Address: 4-1-22 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Shinjuku Komuro bld.704
Aprox 2 min. walk from South Exit of JR Shinjuku Station
There is a Family Mart on the first floor of the building.
No parking available
Date: 2024/05/05 ( Sunday ) 11:00-12:40 ( 100min )
I spent many years in the world of advertising as a designer and art director, and during that time l encountered modern Japanese calligraphy, an "art of the moment." I was attracted to the sheer depth of its impermanent, monotone world, and began to study the art in earnest.
I'm continuously searching for my own unique means of expression, my creative voice.
And, driven by my passion to have people overseas learn and experience the charms and possibilities of character-based art, I have become active outside of Japan as well.
I launched a calligraphy art class in 2002, and have been conducting lessons at an international school since 2011.
In addition to these activities, I'm attempting to merge the modern, dream-like sound of the thirteen-stringed koto and seventeen-stringed koto, which l've been playing since | was four, with calligraphy works that convey a contemporary feeling.
Instructor, Sogen Calligraphy Association
Certification, Yamada-ryu Koto
Teaching Certification, Sawai Koto Institute ( Ikuta-ryu )
Others: Multiple exhibitions at the Mainichi Shodo and Sogen Exhibition, Japan
Alongside her own artistic pursuits, Kumiko Hamilton utilizes her qualifications as a certified instructor of the Sogen Calligraphy Association to encourage many people to become familiar with calligraphy through the following activities.
－ For children －
・Izumi Japanese Calligraphy Art Lesson
－ For adults －
・Japanese Calligraphy Art Workshop
・Saturday Morning Educational Program
Instructor of the Sogen Calligraphy Association
創玄書道会 師範
Kumiko Hamilton ( Hekisen Nakabayashi )
ハミルトン クミコ ( 中林碧泉 )
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