About us
Three of us
Rogier Uitenboogaart – more profile below
Chikako Uitenboogaart
Yohei Uitenboogaart
Siepie – Kamikoya cat
Rogier Uitenboogaart
– Owner of Kamikoya
– Japanese handmade paper
– Paper master authorized by Kochi Prefecture
– Visiting professor of Kochi University of Technology
Website
Please visit ROGIER web site to see works and philosophy.
Media
“The Japan Times” link Dutchman keeps paper-making traditions alive at his Shikoku studio
“KIKAN KOCHI English Version” Link No.53 pp.4-11
Biography
2006 Opening Washi Studio Kamikoya
2004 Start neighbourhood collective ”Yanagibata’
2003 Start making recycle cotton paper
1999-2004 Open Gallery and Cafe ‘Tenguno Kaze’ in Yusuhara
1994 – 2004 Organise annual art and craft festival “Genryu no Uta’ in Yusuhara
1992 Move to Yusuhara and opens paper workshop ‘Tengu no Kaze’
1981-1992 Start training in washi making in Ino. Grow own paper fiber plants, while learning to farm.
1980 Travel in Japan to visit a number of paper makers.
-Rogier Uitenboogaart is born in Den Haag, the Netherlands (1955). After studying at a graphic school in Amsterdam, he worked for a bookbinding atelier before deciding to go to Japan to learn more about Japanese paper he encountered at his work.
Awards (selected)
2011 Hakuho Award, Hakuho Foundation (national)
2009 Award for outstanding performance, Green Tourism Award, The Mainichi NewsPaper (national)
2009 Nihon Lifestyle Award (national)
2007 Tosa no Takumi (Kochi Prefecture)
2005 Mori no Mejin 100, National Land Afforestation Promotion Organisation (national)
2004 An award for culture and the environment (Kochi Prefecture)
1996 New design for the countryside (Kochi Prefecture)
Teachings and Workshops (selected)
2013 Earth Day Tokyo
2012 Ginza Fashion Week, Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture
Since 2008- Minatoku Ecoplaza, Tokyo
2004 Coda Museum, International Paper Biennial, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Since 1993- Yusuhara elementary School
Assigned works (selected)
Shoji and Fusuma for Kouyama Garden, Tokyo (Naito Architect & Associates), 2013
Lamp objects for Mizuho Saryo, Yamaguchi City, 2012
Wall paper for Marché Yusuhara, Yusuhara (Kengo Kuma & Associates) 2010
Wall paper art for Makino Memorial Garden and Museum, Tokyo, (Naito Architect & Associates) 2010
Wall paper for Town Hall of Yusuhara, (Kengo Kuma & Associates) 2008
Lamps for Onriyu, hotspring spa, Kanagawa, 2007
Lamps for Makino Botanical Garden, Kochi (Naito Architect & Associates), 1999
Lamps for Auberge Tosayama, Kochi (Hosogi Architects & Associates), 1998
Lamps and Wallpapers for Hotel Kumono Ue, Yusuhara, Kochi (Kengo Kuma & Associates), 1994
Solo Exhibitions
In Kochi, Osaka, Nara, Fukuyama, Matsuyama, since 1989
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2003 ‘Books’ Nangoku City, Kochi Prefecture
2000 ‘Washi-ten’, Havana, Cuba
2000 ‘Paper Works 2000’, Ino City, Kochi Prefecture
1991 Paper Works of Contemporary Art, Imaichi Shi, Fukui Prefecture
1991 Paper Biennail, Rijswijk, the Netherlands
In other occations in Tokyo, Nishinomiya, Naha, Ino etc since 1989
Writings (Catalogs for Paper Biennale in the Netherlands)
‘Traditional tosa washi making step by step‘, Pure Paper, 2008
‘One million prayers’, Spirit of Paper, 2004
‘Japanese water drop paper’ Paper & Water, 2000
Media (selected)
Begin Japanology, NHK-WORLD, 2014
Global Navi, BS-TBS, 2010
Midori, NHK, 2010
CoolJapan, NHK, 2008
Looking for Japan by Sekiguchi Hiroshi, TBS, 2006