Notes from the studio, and a picture each month
Journal
24 September 2026 · Monthly release
September: Mango and Flame
September's picture is new to the collection: Mango and Flame, one of ten works added to the online edition this month. A green mango, and three flame-red flowers rising from it.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Art consulting for Japanese gallery art, now open: a free proposal for any space
The studio of Japanese photographer Ikki Mitsuhashi now offers free art consulting for homes, hotels, offices, restaurants, clinics, embassies and galleries. Send a photo of the wall; receive a proposal of works, sizes and arrangement, shown on your own wall.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Japanese art for embassies, consulates and cultural centres abroad
How a living Japanese artist's numbered editions can present contemporary Japan with dignity in reception halls, residences and offices abroad — documented, bilingual and easy to lend between sites.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Art for coworking and serviced offices: why the walls matter to members
Flexible workspace competes on atmosphere. How original Japanese photographs give lounges, meeting rooms and phone booths a signature — across one floor or many locations.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
For galleries and art consultancies: the Tropical Garden collection on trade terms
Ikki Mitsuhashi's Tropical Garden was sold through a Tokyo gallery for twenty years. The collection is now offered to galleries and art consultants on trade and wholesale terms, for their own clients' homes, hotels and offices.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
For architects and interior designers: specifying Japanese fine-art photography
Sizes, papers, margins, lead times and trade terms for specifying Ikki Mitsuhashi's photographs in residential, hospitality and workplace projects — with a downloadable PDF of twelve spaces.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Japanese design on the wall: photographs for offices, lobbies and hotels
Why still lifes made by a Japanese designer-turned-photographer suit corporate spaces, which works fit a lobby, a meeting room or a corridor, and how companies buy, certify and license them.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Collecting Japanese photography: prints, photobooks and what to look for
A practical guide for collectors: why Japanese photography is sought after, the difference between vintage prints, later prints and photobooks, and the seven things to check before you buy — edition, paper, signature, certificate, provenance, condition and price.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Film, format and a Flextight: how Tropical Garden was made
What the original files reveal about the cameras and film behind Ikki Mitsuhashi's Tropical Garden — a 1 : 1.27 frame, a Flextight film scanner — and how Japanese cameras changed across his fifty years behind them.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
From the design desk to the darkroom: Japanese photography, 1959–1982
How Japan's camera makers, advertising studios and photobooks produced a generation of photographers who began as designers — Araki, Shinoyama, and Ikki Mitsuhashi among them — and what that path still teaches.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Tropical Garden: a Japanese photographer in Ubud, Bali
In 2003 Ikki Mitsuhashi spent three months in Ubud, Bali, and came back with a new series: tropical still lifes of lotus, banana flower, coconut and frangipani. How Tropical Garden began, where it was made, and how to read the pictures.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Living with a print: light, framing and care
An archival print can outlast the room it hangs in, if it is kept from a few simple things. How to unpack, frame, hang and care for a fine-art photograph.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Choosing a size and a paper
Four sheet sizes, three papers, and one honest note about what a larger sheet gives you. A practical guide before you order.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
How to read an edition number
What "no. 102 of 150" means, why the numbering here continues a ledger the artist kept by hand, and what a signature and a certificate add.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
What is an archival pigment print?
Giclée, pigment, cotton rag, acid-free: what the words on a fine-art print actually mean, and why they matter for a photograph you intend to keep.
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23 September 2026 · From the studio
Star Man and two more: the photobooks, 1973–1994
Before the prints, there were the books. A guide to the three photobooks Ikki Mitsuhashi published between 1973 and 1994 — what they are, who published them, and what a collector should know.
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13 September 2026 · Monthly release
October: When the Flower Bows
October's picture: When the Flower Bows, the picture that began this project, with the artist's own text, and its monochrome companion. Letters subscribers see each release two days early.
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13 September 2026 · From the studio
Three papers
Why every print here can be ordered on Canson, Hahnemühle or Takeo — and what the difference feels like under the hand.
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