Not to take the exhibition home, but to continue it in daily life.
The museum shop of the Shibuya Higashi Archives carries articles related to its exhibitions, its collection, and its conservation records, as well as its unsorted afterglow.
About the Shop
Small aids to accessioning.
What is sold here is not mere memorabilia, but small aids to accessioning — for visitors whose viewing carries on, despite themselves, after they have left the exhibition room.
To accompany the permanent exhibition, Jirinpa, we plan to offer posters, postcards, stickers, tenugui cloths, catalogues, T-shirts, tote bags, smartphone wallpapers, and digital standbys, as well as papers whose use has not been determined — all on the themes of hiragana, Rinpa, and onomatopoeia.
Some of the articles are designed as practical goods. Some are pretending to be practical goods. And with some, a little while after the purchase, you may no longer understand why you bought them.
Catalogue
Categories.
The afterglow takes more than one form. Paper, cloth, screen — and things whose use has not been determined. The articles for continuing the exhibition in daily life are arranged in six divisions.
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No. 01
Catalogues and printed matter
Catalogues & Print
Catalogues, papers, and other printed matter in which the afterglow of an exhibition is bound. Closed, they still hold the air of the exhibition room.
No. 02
Posters and cards
Posters & Cards
Posters and postcards. Hung on a wall or laid face-down on a desk, the works quietly go on breathing.
No. 03
Goods and daily articles
Goods & Daily Use
Stickers, tenugui cloths, tote bags. Some designed as practical goods; some pretending to be.
No. 04
Apparel
Apparel
T-shirts and things of cloth. To wear them, to carry them about — this, too, is a form of display in which art and daily life meet again.
No. 05
Digital items
Digital Items
Smartphone wallpapers and digital standbys. Articles for putting away the rest of the exhibition inside a screen.
No. 06
Limited distributions
Limited Edition
Papers whose use has not been determined, as well as articles whose reason for purchase becomes clear only some time afterward.
On Our Designs
To sell is not to handle lightly.
The shop carries recomposed designs based on works of the past. Each is made on the premise of respect for the original, its maker, the holding institution, and the released data, and is designed with care, so as not to impair the presence the work has always carried.
To sell is not to handle lightly. To wear, to carry, to set in a room, to give to someone — these, too, the Archives regards as small forms of display, by which works of art and the life of the present meet once again.
Opening soon
Now in preparation
We ask for a little patience until the shop opens. Inside the stores, the articles are quietly being prepared. Notice of the first distribution will be given on this site and in the official exhibitions app.