For coverage, publication, and verification, as well as quiet inquiries.
The Shibuya Higashi Archives is a museum that appears on no map. Working from public-domain and CC0 high-resolution images released by museums around the world, it restores, prepares, and recomposes them, and presents them as new exhibition experiences.
Overview
Nonexistence is no excuse for careless handling.
The Shibuya Higashi Archives is a project that restores, prepares, and recomposes public-domain and CC0 high-resolution images released by museums around the world, and presents them as new exhibition experiences.
In Jirinpa — the first exhibition and the permanent one — Rinpa folding screens, the forty-eight hiragana, and Japanese onomatopoeia are recomposed in a jet-black three-dimensional space.
The Archives is a fictional museum. In the works it handles, the released data, the conservation, the recomposition, the development of the app, and the design of its displays, however, it holds itself to the greatest sincerity it can manage.
Boilerplate
Texts for publication.
You are welcome to use the texts below as they stand, according to the length you require.
Short
The Shibuya Higashi Archives is a museum that appears on no map. It restores and recomposes publicly released collection images, and presents them as new exhibition experiences through its official exhibitions app.
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The Shibuya Higashi Archives is a museum that appears on no map.
Working from public-domain and CC0 high-resolution images released by museums around the world, it restores, prepares, and recomposes them, and presents them as new accessions and exhibition experiences.
In Jirinpa — its first exhibition and its permanent one — Rinpa folding screens, the forty-eight hiragana, and Japanese onomatopoeia are recomposed in a jet-black three-dimensional space.
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The Shibuya Higashi Archives is a museum that appears on no map. Working from high-resolution collection images that museums around the world have released into the public domain or under CC0, its conservators correct and prepare each work individually, and recompose it on the premise of respect for the original, its maker, and the holding institution.
Through the official exhibitions app, these accessions are presented as new exhibition experiences. Jirinpa — the first exhibition and the permanent one — is a three-dimensional display combining Rinpa folding screens, the forty-eight hiragana, and Japanese onomatopoeia. In a jet-black space, the screens travel around the inner wall of a cylinder, the hiragana slowly revolve, and when a visitor touches a character, onomatopoeia emerge from within the screens.
The Shibuya Higashi Archives is a slightly eccentric, and entirely serious, facility that carries open cultural heritage toward the viewing experiences of the future.
Coverage & Press
Coverage and publication.
For coverage, publication, the use of image materials, interviews, and introductions of the app or the exhibitions, please contact us through the form.
Your message will be reviewed, and the staff member concerned will reply in due course. Depending on the inquiry, verification within the stores may take a little time.
Press Materials
Available materials.
- Logo images
- Images of the Director
- Group images of the staff
- Individual staff images
- Screens from the official exhibitions app
- Introductory images of JIRINPA
- Official texts
- Credit lines
- Press releases
Conditions of use are provided with each material.
The materials are currently in preparation. Should you need them, please write through the contact form. You will be assisted by the staff member concerned — or by someone of a very similar quietness.
Naming
Names and spellings.
- Official name (Japanese)
- 渋谷東収蔵庫
- English name
- The Shibuya Higashi Archives
- Permanent exhibition
- 字琳派展 — JIRINPA
- Official app
- The Shibuya Higashi Archives — Official Exhibitions App
Credit policy.
The displays and recompositions of the Archives carry, wherever possible, information on the original work, its maker, the holding institution, and the released data.
When publishing, please credit not only the Archives, but also — and respectfully — the original works and the institutions that released them.
For press inquiries, please contact us below.