ARCH-ive Exhibition of Haruhi Mase "Continuously Following the Flow of the River"

Date: November 17th (Monday) to November 29th (Saturday), 2025

Location: S-TOKYO 2F (Nihonbashi, Tokyo)

Free admission | Drinks from Pertica Coffee on the 1st floor are allowed. Event time:

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

No closing days during the exhibition period (the 1st floor cafe is closed on Sundays).

◆Event during the exhibition: "Artist Bar"◆

Date and Time: Friday, November 21st, 7 PM - 9 PM

Entrance fee: ¥1000 (includes one drink)

Mase will be at the @perticacoffee counter on the 1st floor of the venue to welcome everyone.

I'd love to chat about the artwork with you over a drink. We've also prepared a special drink available only on the day, so please look forward to it!

*Due to venue restrictions, food will not be provided. 🙅♀️ For questions or reservations, please feel free to contact the artist or s-tokyo@linnas-design.com

"ARCHive" is a gallery project by S-TOKYO.

S-TOKYO, which embraces the vision of "crossing boundaries and co-creation," presents an exhibition series created in collaboration with artists and creators from Nihonbashi. This time, we will be hosting a solo exhibition by Haruka Mase, who creates works using lacquer, titled "Continuously Following the Flow of the River."

Message from the author

"Continuously Following the Flow of the River," my second solo exhibition this year, continues the theme of the relationship between space and objects that I explored in "Opening the Window of the Abbot's Quarters," held in April. This exhibition focuses particularly on "the flow of the river," which is also the title of the exhibition, and will feature new works modeled after waves, a motif I have repeatedly used in the past. Waves, and by extension the flow of a river, are motifs that symbolize my time, which can never be reversed, even as I grapple with the back-and-forth between my two roles as artist and restorer. I hope that viewers will feel the depth of lacquerware through the photographs of waves from various parts of Japan that I have taken over the years.

My second solo exhibition this year, “The Ever-Flowing River,” continues the exploration of the relationship between space and objects that I began in “Opening the Window of the Hōjō” held in April. The focus is on the theme that gives the exhibition its title—the ever-flowing river. I will present a new artpiece inspired by waves, a recurring motif in my practice. For me, waves—and by extension, the flow of a river—symbolize my own passage of time, which, though often caught between the dual roles of artist and restorer, never flows backward. Alongside these works, I will also propose photographs of waves I have captured across Japan, inviting viewers to sense the depth and resonance unique to japanese lacquer.