Tokyo life starting with painting

Chapter 266 Any questions (4000 words)

The choice of travel destinations is quite particular.

Although Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi said that it was up to them to choose, they should choose a place that is more in line with their interests.

Not only should there be coastal scenery, but there should also be some historical cities and ruins in the area.

Higashinoji also gave some thought to this.

But before Higashinoji could think about it completely, someone came to the door.

"Teacher Yamauchi?" Higashinoji didn't expect that the person on the first floor of Musashino Art University who came to visit him was Yamauchi, which surprised him somewhat.

Higashino still remembers the fact that the other party helped him register for the Japan Art Creation Award.

"I'm asking for Mr. Higashino's forgiveness for visiting so rashly." Yamauchi replied with a smile.

Higashino Tsukasa, who won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for his image of Kumamon, is now fully worthy of his title of ‘teacher’.

"You don't have to be so polite. Teacher Yamauchi, who is this behind you?" Higashinoji turned to look at the middle-aged man behind Yamauchi on the first floor.

The other party was a middle-aged man, ***, who looked quite polite. Seeing Higashino's curious look, he immediately introduced himself with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Higashino, I am from the New Century Art Association in Tokyo, Japan. The vice president’s name is Kageyama Bunta.”

While speaking, the other party stretched out his hand to shake Higashinoji's hand.

"Hello, President Kageyama." Fortunately, Higashino Chihaya was playing games with Fujiwara Aoi and the others next door at this time, Higashinoji thought. Otherwise, she might have been scared to death by these two men who took the initiative to visit her - she always They're all quite acquainted.

He doesn't care whether others are vice-presidents or not. Anyway, in this situation, there is absolutely nothing wrong with calling them president.

After saying hello, Higashinoji also turned sideways, made a 'please come in' gesture, and welcomed the two of them into the house.

After they sat down, Higashinoji served tea, and Yamauchi and the others on the first floor presented sake for their collection as souvenirs. The entire Japanese social process was over.

Kageyama Bunta then explained the purpose of his visit: "Actually, the main reason we came here this time is to invite Mr. Higashino to join the New Century Painting Association."

By this time, Higashinoji finally understood.

It turned out that this Kageyama Bunta wanted to invite him to join the New Century Painting Association, so he even made a special trip to the first floor of Yamauchi to help him connect.

This was something Higashinoji didn't expect.

Join the association.

In his previous life, Higashinoji had joined some messy associations in the Celestial Dynasty, but few people in these associations actually discussed painting skills. At most, they just hung up their names, increased their resumes, and made their names look better when they were outside, just like You take a punch, and then someone asks you what school and style you belong to, and you just say, "Head of the Hunyuan Baji Evil-Repelling Boxing School." This sounds a lot more bluffing.

Higashinoji is now a relatively well-known person outside the country, so it is naturally impossible for him to randomly join some less formal art associations. Of course, Higashinoji still respects the teacher on the first floor of Yamauchi who once helped him, and The other party was Meisa Kuromiya's teacher at the time and was in charge of the Tokyo Youth Art Prize. She didn't even do any behind-the-scenes operations. This character really has nothing to say about her.

It seemed that he was aware of Higashinoji's thoughts.

Kageyama Bunta smiled, stretched out his hand and said seriously: "New Century Art Association cooperates with more than 80% of art museums in Japan. In Tokyo alone, there are more than 2,000 current members and probationary members. It is a formal organization with Registration procedures.”

"It's really unusual." Higashinoji has also been in this industry. He knows that it is unusual to have such a large-scale association in Japan. It seems that this Vice President Kageyama has something.

"In line with the philosophy of our association, we hope to attract young painters like Mr. Higashino. So this visit came about."

Kageyama Bunta once again held Higashinoji's hand and asked sincerely: "Please join our New Century Art Association, Higashino-sensei."

Seeing his sincere attitude, Higashinoji looked a little strange. He had no impression of this New Century Art Association and didn't understand why the other party wanted to recruit him to join them.

So Higashinoji didn't answer the question, and just asked curiously: "What will I do if I join the New Century Art Association?"

His current job is already quite tiring. If he joins an art association and there are some messy association activities, he won't be able to spare that time.

"If Teacher Higashino is willing, it's okay to just hang the name of an honorary member or honorary vice president in the association, and you can also enjoy some of the benefits of our association."

In a sense, the welfare benefits of the New Century Art Association are pretty good. A certain amount of funding will be distributed every month. There is no need to pay admission fees when visiting some art museums that cooperate with the Art Association, and in a sense, you can With the help of the personal connections of the Art Association, for example, holding art exhibitions and some cooperation with art museums, these are resources that Higashinoji can borrow.

Moreover, from the beginning, he was willing to give him the title of honorary vice president and the benefits were generous, and the weight was enough. Higashinoji could see that the New Century Art Association still valued him.

Higashikata sighed and thought for a moment.

Kageyama Bunta, who was on the side, saw that Higashinoji seemed to be interested, and immediately added: "We originally wanted to visit before, but we have been suffering from no one to introduce him, so we have postponed it until now."

"President Kageyama, you don't need to be so polite." Higashinoji smiled and waved his hand: "Thank you very much for the invitation, but unfortunately, I am going to travel recently and it is a bit troublesome to go through the membership procedures. Can you give me some time? Consider it?"

When talking about this, Higashinoji said jokingly: "I haven't decided on a good place to travel now. If President Kageyama has a good place to recommend to me, then I might consider joining the club."

Tourist destination?

Kageyama Bunta values ​​​​Higashinoji very much, whether it is oil paintings or comics. The key is that his influence on the younger generation of Japan is really great. Comics are called the third largest industry in Japan, and Higashinoji is one of the most important industries in Japan. As the current leader in the Japanese comics industry, he naturally needs to think about it carefully.

So he thought about it and said: "Since Mr. Higashino hasn't decided where to travel yet, what do you think of Aomori County? The scenery there is very good, with mountains, seas, and many places of interest. We are also there. Branch association, if Mr. Higashino thinks about it, he can also go through the procedures directly in the branch association over there."

Aomori Prefecture?

Higashinoji was more or less interested: "Thank you, President Kageyama, for your suggestion. If I make a decision, I will definitely go to the Aomori Prefecture branch to go through the membership procedures."

"Then I will wait for the good news from Mr. Higashino." Kageyama Bunta also smiled.

Although he was a little regretful that he could not immediately recruit Higashinoji into the New Century Art Association, at least it was the first step, and Higashinoji did not have a bad impression of them, so they would still have a good chance in the future.

After the conversation, Kageyama Bunta said that he would write a letter of recommendation when he returned. When the time comes, Higashinoji can be brought to the Aomori Prefecture branch association to avoid many procedures.

To this, Tonoji agreed with a smile.

A few people drank tea and chatted for a while, and the topic also moved from the New Century Art Association to the first floor of Yamauchi.

"Will Mr. Yamauchi take Mingsha and the others to practice sketching outside the school in two days?" Higashinoji asked curiously.

"Absolutely. Meisa is already a junior now and will be a senior next year. The only thing that gives me a headache is Chimi Nagawa in the class." Yamauchi first floor obviously knows that Higashinoji and Kuromiya Meisa have a close relationship. , so they are also called by their names.

When mentioning Chimei Nagawa, Yamauchi Ichiro couldn't help but rub his temples, feeling quite helpless.

If she hadn't met the attendance limit and the quality of the homework she usually handed in was pretty good, Yamauchi would have almost made her repeat the grade on the first floor.

Higashinoji obviously also thought about Chimi Nagawa's "if she can't study, she will go home and inherit a fortune worth hundreds of millions," so he smiled. After all, this guy is rich, and it's normal to be free.

But it’s no wonder that Akisa Kuromiya and Chimi Nagawa haven’t visited her much recently.

It turned out that I was going out to practice painting.

The few people talked for a while, and then Higashinoji sent Yamauchi Ichiro, Kageyama Bunta and the others away.

"Aomori Prefecture." Higashinoji thought for a moment and decided to search for this place online.

But before that, he still searched about the New Century Art Association.

There are many web entries about the New Century Art Association, and Higashinoji was dazzled just by glancing at them.

The webpage mainly contains some works of members of this association and the association's oil painting and sculpture exhibitions held in conjunction with a certain art museum.

However, at the top of these miscellaneous news, there is an eye-catching headline - "Vice President Tashiro of the New Century Art Association transferred to the Uesugi Art Association, and Mr. Kageyama took over the position of vice president. According to insiders, Vice President Tashiro Chang took away nearly half of the New Century Art Association, an influential association member in the Japanese painting world. ’

Um?

This news attracted Higashinoji's attention. He clicked on it and browsed it quickly. After reading it for almost two minutes, Higashinoji roughly understood why Vice President Kageyama Bunta was so hungry for talents.

It turned out that half of the top core members, those painters and illustrators who were relatively well-known in Japan and had published collections of paintings, were poached by the previous Vice President Tashiro.

Kageyama Bunta was the one who was pushed out to take over the mess.

This time he took the initiative to come over to recruit Touyesi to join the team for this reason.

No wonder he was directly given the title of Honorary Vice President.

But this is normal. Joining the association is similar to a transaction for Higashinoji and Kageyama Bunta.

If you join, Higashino will be able to draw on the connections of the New Century Art Association. If you don't join, Higashino will not suffer any loss.

Higashinoji forked the news. He hadn't decided whether to join or not, and there was no point in looking at it.

Next is the news about Aomori Prefecture that he personally cares about.

He quickly searched for many entries about Aomori Prefecture on the Internet.

Look at it as a whole.

"Not bad." Higashino looked at the picture above and muttered to himself.

Not bad indeed.

There is a place in Aomori Prefecture called the Mutsu Shiokaze Trail. It can be said that there are mountains and seas along the way. The official boast is that it is more than a thousand kilometers, but in fact the total distance of sightseeing spots is only about nine kilometers, which perfectly fits the high Hashiyumi's desire to see the sea, and there is also a historical city in the area called Hirosaki Castle, as well as a large area of ​​ancient ruins from the Jomon period, with profound historical and cultural heritage, can also satisfy Aoi Fujiwara's needs.

In addition, it is now the end of summer and turns to autumn, and Aomori Prefecture is neither hot nor cold, so it was indeed a good choice in the past.

"It does look like a nice place."

Higashinoji sighed and decided to include Aomori Prefecture as a candidate.

Just when he wanted to continue looking down, there was a loud noise outside. It turned out to be Yumi Takahashi and Aoi Fujiwara who were playing games next door.

"Teacher Higashino, have you made your decision?" Takahashi Yumi rushed out of Higashinoji's room like a gust of wind.

Behind her, Fujiwara Aoi couldn't help but speak directly:

"Stupid pig! Wait a minute! Don't enter Higashikata-san's room casually."

If Konoe Ryoka goes in, it's okay. You are at best Ryoka's best friend. Isn't it a bit bad to just enter her boyfriend's room like this?

"I didn't go in all of them, you stinky dwarf." Takahashi Yumi turned around and responded confidently.

Although she has an out-of-touch personality, she also knows that you can't just enter a boy's room - if you see something you shouldn't see, that won't be good.

So Takahashi Yumi left half of her body outside the door and half of her body in the room.

This made Higashino a little speechless when he saw it. What's the difference between you coming in with half your body and coming in with your whole body? What about hiding one's ears and stealing the bell?

But forget it, I have to tell them anyway.

Higashino simply called them all in, and then made a decision: "Let's go to Aomori Prefecture."

He didn't give Takahashi Yumi and the others a choice and made a decision directly.

After all, these days, Higashinoji has figured out the routines of Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi. If they are given a choice, or with a slightly solicitous tone, they can talk excitedly about this topic for the whole day. .

As the saying goes, three women make a play, but Higashino felt that the two of them could form a stage team.

So he directly chose to cut through the mess with a sharp knife and finalize the matter directly.

But what Higashinoji didn't expect was that Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi both showed a look of astonishment after hearing the name of Aomori Prefecture.

Even Konoe Ryoka, who had just returned with Higashino Chihaya behind them, was also surprised.

They were so frozen there that they had nothing to say.

On the other side, Higashinoji also noticed something was wrong.

It was like an atmosphere that suddenly poked a hole in the honeycomb.

Aomori Prefecture. Is there something wrong?

Thanks to Dungeon Rat for the tip! Thank you so much!