A Collection of Dialogues Filled with 'Golden Sayings' to Guide Your Life's Course by Maha Harada: 'Maha Harada Goes to Meet the Masters of Art' (Shinchosha Bunko) Released March 30 (Mon)!

The paperback edition of the popular interview series 'Maha Harada Goes to Meet the Masters of Art' by Maha Harada, originally featured in 'Geijutsu Shincho,' was published by Shinchosha on March 30, 2026.

'I want to meet that person I admire; I want to meet them and hear their story. That desire became my wings, and I flew off to meet these masters. Every conversation illuminated my path. I believe that it will surely illuminate your path as you read this book, too.' (From the Afterword)

I want to meet that person. I want to meet them and hear what they have to say. Maha Harada, a master of art novels who has depicted the lives of numerous historical artists such as Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, and Rousseau, goes to meet and interview 33 masters of art living in the modern era—including Shuntaro Tanikawa, Keiko Takemiya, Tadao Ando, and Yoji Yamada. Art, architecture, poetry, manga, photography, film... the 'golden sayings' spun by these pioneers who have mastered their crafts will become a lighthouse beam to illuminate the course of your life. A profound and exquisite collection of dialogues.

[The 33 Masters of Art] *Titles are as of the time of the interviews.

Yoshiharu Fukuhara (Honorary Chairman, Shiseido / Director, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) Ichiko Koike (Creative Director) Miyako Ishiuchi (Photographer) Akiko Mabuchi (Director, The National Museum of Western Art) Emmanuel Prat (Director, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Japan) Pierre Chen (Chairman, Yageo Foundation) Kenichiro Ohara (Chairman, Ohara Museum of Art) Keiko Takemiya (Manga Artist / President, Kyoto Seika University) Akihiro Miwa (Singer-songwriter / Actor / Director) Shigeru Kashima (French Literature Scholar) Fumihiko Maki (Architect) Donald Keene (Researcher of Japanese Literature and Culture / Literary Critic) Yutaka Mino (Director, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art) Ryoko Ikeda (Manga Artist / Vocalist) Kimiko Reizei (25th Head of the Reizei Family / Wife of Tamehito Reizei / Executive Director and Secretary General, Reizei Family Shiguretei Bunko) Hironobu Ise (Representative Director, Ise Foundation) Richard Colas (President and CEO, Chanel K.K. / Novelist) Johei Sasaki (Director, Kyoto National Museum) Gosuke Suzuki (President and CEO, Pola Orbis Holdings / Chairman, Pola Art Foundation) Terunobu Fujimori (Architectural Historian / Architect) Soichiro Fukutake (Honorary Advisor, Benesse Holdings / Chairman, Fukutake Foundation) Yoji Yamada (Film Director) Yutaka Oda (Director, Rokkatei Institute of Food Culture) Fujiko Hemming (Pianist) Shuji Takashina (Director, Ohara Museum of Art / Chairman, The Western Art Foundation) Kazushi Ono (Conductor) Hideko Ise (Painter / Picture Book Author) Shuntaro Tanikawa (Poet) Jun Aoki (Architect / Director, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art) Yoshiko Mori (Director, Mori Building / Chairman, Mori Art Museum) Tadao Ando (Architect) Toshio Hara (Chairman, Hara Museum of Art) Tsukasa Kodera (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University)

Author Profile: Maha Harada Born in Tokyo in 1962. Writer. Graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Kwansei Gakuin University, and the Department of Art History, Second Faculty of Letters, Waseda University. After working at the Mari-Mu Museum and Itochu Corporation, she was dispatched to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for six months in 2000 while working at the Mori Building Mori Art Museum establishment office. In 2005, she won the Japan Love Story Award for 'Waiting for Kafu' and debuted the following year. Her 2012 art mystery novel 'Canvas of Paradise' became a bestseller, winning the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize, the R-40 Bookstore Award, and the TBS 'King's Brunch' BOOK Award. In 2016, 'Dark Curtain Guernica' won the R-40 Bookstore Award; in 2017, 'Reach-sensei' won the Jiro Nitta Literary Prize; and in 2024, 'Saku on the Board' won the Kyoka Izumi Prize for Literature. Other works include 'Today is a Good Day,' 'Giverny's Dining Table,' 'The Miracle of the Detroit Institute of Arts,' 'Permanent Exhibition Room,' 'Maha Harada's Impressionist Story,' 'Fujin Raijin,' 'Revolver,' 'Even If You Sway, You Won't Sink,' 'Tableau of Beautiful Fools,' and 'Black Painting.' The film 'Mujou no Hito,' based on her own short story for which she served as director and screenwriter, is scheduled for release in 2026.

Book Data [Title] 'Maha Harada Goes to Meet the Masters of Art' [Author] Maha Harada [Release Date] March 30, 2026 [Format] Shinchosha Bunko [Price] 880 yen (tax included) [ISBN] 978-4-10-125965-9 [URL] https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/book/125965/