Street Art in Tokyo?
Tokyo doesn’t have a lot of graffiti but there is some “street art” in certain parts, such as Naka-Meguro and Yoyogi. I found two huge works on the concrete pillars joining Yoyogi Park to Jinnan, near NHK in Shibuya.
The artist is called Suiko and he has done Street Art work all over Japan. I like the way he used traditional images, the dragon on the left, and a tiger on the right, in his very striking work. These concrete pillars are 3-4 meters high and quite impressive. He made them in the fall of 2005 when Berlin and Tokyo had a joint art project.
Website: Suiko1
That’s really cool. I actually noticed that about Tokyo– not too much grafitti.
Julie
Thanks for the comment! Yes, those two are really something else. Suiko’s website has some neat stuff too, including Body Art and other work that seems to have been widely exhibited.