Harada Maha's Collection of Dialogues "Harada Maha Meets Art Masters" (Shincho Bunko), Filled with "Golden Words" to Guide Your Life's Journey, Released March 30th (Monday)!

The paperback edition of the popular interview series "Harada Maha Meets Art Masters" by Harada Maha, serialized in "Geijutsu Shincho," was published by Shincho Bunko on March 30, 2026.

I want to meet that person I admire, to hear their story. Those desires became wings, and I flew to meet the masters. The dialogue with each person illuminated my path. I believe that reading this book will surely illuminate your path as well. (From the Afterword)

I want to meet that person. I want to meet them and hear their story. Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Rousseau... Harada Maha, a master of art novels who has depicted the lives of numerous historical artists, meets and talks with 33 contemporary art masters, including Shun Tani, Keiko Takemiya, Tadao Ando, and Yoji Yamada. The "golden words" spun by these pioneers who have mastered their fields in art, architecture, poetry, manga, photography, and film will become the light of a lighthouse illuminating your life's journey. A profound and gem-like collection of dialogues.

【33 Art Masters】

※Titles are as of the time of the interviews.

Yoshiharu Fukuhara (Honorary Chairman of Shiseido / Director of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)

Kazuko Koike (Creative Director)

Miyako Ishiuchi (Photographer)

Akiko Mabuchi (Director of The National Museum of Western Art)

Emmanuel Prat (Director of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Japan)

Pierre Chen (Chairman of Yageo Foundation)

Kenichiro Ohara (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ohara Museum of Art)

Keiko Takemiya (Manga Artist / President of Kyoto Seika University)

Akihiro Miwa (Singer-songwriter / Actor / Director)

Shigeru Kashima (French Literature Scholar)

Fumihiko Maki (Architect)

Donald Keene (Scholar of Japanese Literature and Culture / Literary Critic)

Yutaka Mino (Director of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)

Riyoko Ikeda (Manga Artist / Soprano)

Kimiko Reizei (25th Head of the Reizei Family, Wife of Tamemori / Managing Director and Secretary-General of the Reizei Family Shigarakutei Bunko)

Hironobu Ise (Representative Director of Ise Cultural Foundation)

Richard Collasse (Representative Director of Chanel K.K. Japan / Novelist)

Johei Sasaki (Director of Kyoto National Museum of Art)

Satoshi Suzuki (Representative Director and President of POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC. / Chairman of the Board of Directors, POLA Art Foundation)

Terunobu Fujimori (Architectural Historian / Architect)

Soichiro Fukutake (Honorary Advisor of Benesse Holdings, Inc. / Chairman of the Board of Directors, Fukutake Foundation)

Yoji Yamada (Film Director)

Yutaka Oda (Director of Rokka-tei Institute of Food Culture)

Fujiko Hemming (Pianist)

Hidekazu Takashina (Director of Ohara Museum of Art / Chairman of the Board of Directors, Foundation for the Promotion of Western Art)

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