[Tokyo, Japan]
Hiroto Nakanishi "Emerging Forms" Exhibition
2026.8.25(Tue) - 8.30(Sun)
11:00–19:00 (until 16:00 on the final day)
Moriokashoten
Suzuki Building, 1-28-15 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan
Artist in attendance: 8/25(Tue)
Hiroto Nakanishi (1984–)
Born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. After studying woodworking and furniture making in Gifu Prefecture, he became an independent woodcarver in 2008 and began his career in 2010, working mainly through solo exhibitions.
In autumn 2011, feeling the limitations of working in an urban setting, he established a home and studio in a former telephone exchange building in Shiga Prefecture. Rather than using commercially milled lumber, Nakanishi works with logs he encounters at any given moment — wood damaged by insects or decay, trees felled by natural disasters, and thinned timber.
His practice is guided by the belief that a work does not begin with searching for material to fit a concept or image, but rather from a dialogue with material that only he happens to encounter at that particular time. Listening closely to the voice of the wood itself, he continues to create vessels and objects.
Moriokashoten
Located in Ginza 1-chome, Tokyo, on the ground floor of the Suzuki Building — a structure completed in 1929 and designated as a Tokyo Selected Historic Building. The shop occupies a compact space of roughly 5 tsubo (about 16.5 m²) and was opened in 2015 by proprietor Yoshiyuki Morioka.
Moriokashoten is known for its distinctive concept of "a bookstore that sells only one book." Each week the shop features a single title, alongside a related exhibition of original artwork or other material connected to that book. Morioka arrived at this concept after eight years working at an antiquarian bookshop in Jimbocho and, later, running numerous curated exhibitions at his own Morioka Shoten in Kayabacho before going independent.
Despite its small footprint, it draws a steady stream of visitors from Japan and abroad, and is regarded as one of Ginza's landmark gallery-bookshops.
Hiroto Nakanishi Exhibition
2026.8.25(Tue) - 8.30(Sun)
13:00 - 19:00
Moriokashoten
Suzuki Building, 1-28-15 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan
