Junzaburo Nishiwaki's "Trip to Hokkaido," (c. 1960) © OJIYA CITY LIBRARY

Despite a lack of artistic training, there have been many writers, particularly poets, who have been able to use their critical thinking, aesthetic sense and imagination to create surprisingly ambitious and sensitive paintings. Visual art provided such writers with another medium that could embody their repressed inner feelings.

This relationship between the world of literature and art is explored through paintings by popular Japanese poets, including Hideo Oguma (1901-1940), Haruo Sato (1892-1964) and Toshihiko Katayama (1898-1961); till Nov 4.

Other arts this week
Code and function in a world of altered reality By STUART MUNRO	The art of photography By JEFF MICHAEL HAMMOND	"The Eye of the Machine: Camera and Lens" By TOMOHIRO OSAKI
"Dialogues with Contemporary Art" By TOMOHIRO OSAKI	"The '70s in Japan: 1968-1982" By TOMOHIRO OSAKI