Tokyo life starting with painting

The reason why Hosokawa Koharu spoke so secretly was that he was actually a little embarrassed to ask Higashinoji about this matter.

After all, the New Century Art Association's art exhibitions are the business of their publishing house.

As the manga author of the manga department, Higashinoji is not responsible for this matter.

But because the board of directors above took a fancy to Hosokawa Koharu and Higashinoji's unusually close relationship between editors and authors, they asked her to entrust Higashinoji.

Thinking of this, Hosokawa Koharu also sighed slightly.

Sure enough, it’s still too difficult for Mr. Higashino, right?

She has always treated personal relationships and work separately, relying on her face to ask Higashino to do this or that.

To be honest, she herself wasn't too happy about it.

She coughed twice and was about to tell Higashikata not to force it.

But the next moment, Higashinoji was the first to answer with a smile: "Okay."

"Huh?" Hosokawa Koharu was a little confused when he heard Higashinoji's laughter on the other side of the phone.

But she soon figured out what Higashinoji meant by 'yes'.

She hesitated and thought for a while before replying: "Um, Mr. Higashino, please don't force me. Although this is not a good thing to say to me, I personally feel quite comfortable with inviting you to draw as a favor. Disgusting."

These words of Hosokawa Koharu can be regarded as the editor's true love for Higashinoji.

Otherwise, it would be a casual invitation for this kind of thing, and there would be no need to say so many words. After all, she is just a middleman who receives work requests from her boss and then conveys them.

This is quite interesting to Higashinoji.

On the other side, Higashinoji laughed dumbly when he heard it and said: "There is nothing forced, and to be honest, I actually really want to see the level of the New Century Art Association's art exhibition."

What Higashinoji said was indeed true.

As a former professional painter, Higashinoji really wanted to see the level of the New Century Art Association.

After all, looking at a leopard through a tube, Higashinoji also wants to understand what the current Japanese painting world is like.

They can't all be a bunch of fools and have no level at all, right?

But Hosokawa Koharu over there was still a little worried. She whispered: "Did Mr. Higashino really not force himself?"

"Editor Hosokawa has been with me for so long. Have you ever seen me force myself?"

Higashikata asked back with a smile.

Hosokawa Koharu nodded after hearing this.

In my impression, as long as Tonoji has promised or said something, he can basically accomplish it easily.

If it can't be done, he won't make the commitment.

As for reluctantly

Hosokawa Koharu really has no impression.

Thinking of this, she nodded and breathed out in a relaxed tone: "I understand. Since this is the case, Mr. Higashino, I'm sorry to trouble you. Can you come to Tomido Press tomorrow if you are free?"

"If you're free, I'll come over at ten o'clock tomorrow morning."

Higashino decided on the meeting time three times, and then ended the call.

"I'm going to have a long experience tomorrow."

Tonoji put down his phone and looked at the ceiling, his expression not looking too nervous.

This time I went to meet with the intention of gaining more knowledge.

I don’t know what the professional painters in this world are like.

The next day, Higashinoji cooked for Higashino Chihaya, watched her go out, then put on going out clothes and went to Tomishima Publishing House.

I have to say that Higashino Chihaya has been getting up earlier and earlier recently.

At about half past five, Higashinoji could hear her rustling over there as she prepared for today's lesson.

Japan’s happy education is so scary.

Tonoji couldn't help but look at her twice and shook his head. He felt that when he was in China, those marketing accounts said that 'Japanese students can get into a good university even if they don't study hard.' brain.

Is this called not reviewing seriously?

This is already comparable to the numerous students from China, right?

Even when sleeping at night, Higashinoji could still hear Higashino Chihaya saying, 'Aji, sister will definitely work hard! It'll be fine if you just eat and wait for death. Sister will support your sleep talking.

Higashikata was quite curious about what the content of her dream was.

Putting aside these small episodes in life, Higashinoji rushed all the way to Tomishima Publishing House and was already in place almost half an hour in advance.

Hosokawa Koharu also hurriedly took Higashinoji into the reception room of Tomshima Publishing House.

This is the living room used by Tomishima Publishing House to discuss cooperation. The light inside is relatively soft. There is a coffee table in the middle, sofas on both sides, and the company logo of Tomishima Publishing House at the end.

In this room, the two people who had an appointment with Higashinoji had arrived early.

The one sitting on the left side of the sofa is Bunta Kageyama who previously invited Higashinoji to join the New Century Association.

As soon as he saw Higashinoji, he smiled and stood up.

At the same time, looking at Higashinoji in front of him, Kageyama Bunta actually felt a little emotional.

In the past, he invited Higashinoji to become the honorary vice president of the New Century Association mainly because of his influence on Japan's younger generation.

But thanks to the film "Naoki Hansawa", not only the younger generation, but also some office workers have become his fans.

This influence is really big, even Kageyama Bunta cannot ignore it.

Hence this meeting.

"Hello, Mr. Higashino." Kageyama Bunta greeted him and took the initiative to shake hands with Higashinoji.

At the same time, he did not forget to stretch out his other hand and enthusiastically introduce the person sitting next to him to Higashinoji: "This is Nakahiro Kijima, who is also the president of our New Century Art Association."

Kageyama Bunta smiled again as he spoke, with such enthusiasm and unwillingness to let go that Higashino almost mistakenly thought that the other party was taking a wedding oath.

but

President of the New Century Art Association?

After Higashino greeted Bunta Kageyama, he also shook hands with Nakahiro Kijima: "Hello, Mr. Kijima."

Kijima Nakahiro is different from the seemingly gentle Kageyama Bunta.

He looks short and chubby, wearing a suit, and his smile is quite like that of Maitreya Buddha. He feels less like a painter and more like a professional businessman.

He held Higashinoji's hand firmly, looked at Higashinoji up and down, and then smiled: "Hello, Mr. Higashino, please sit down, please sit down."

In fact, Higashinoji guessed it right.

Compared to a painter, Nakahiro Kijima is really like a businessman.

The paintings he handles by members of the New Century Society are usually fetched at a high price outside.

These are all run by him.

And it is precisely because of his ability to lead people to make money that he still has many supporters in the New Century Art Association.

After all, the prerequisite for doing art is to have enough to eat. If you don’t even have enough to eat, why do you do art?

Is it really necessary to wait until the artist is really dead before promoting his paintings?

What's the point?

The true president is the one who can lead people to make money!

This is a cruel fact in the art circle.

But who can say anything?

Although art cannot be measured by money, money is the best way to measure art.

It was Kijima Nakahiro's method of making money that attracted the attention and investment of Tomishima Publishing House.

And now he saw for the first time that Higashino was pretty and good-looking, and not as feminine as other male idols or stars.

At that moment, Nakahiro Kijima suffered from an occupational disease, and he was thinking about whether he could package Higashinoji into the kind of talented and good-looking professional painter.

This is bound to make a lot of money.

Kijima Nakahiro was thinking over there, while Higashinoji realized something was wrong.

He twitched his hand twice, but it didn't twitch. He didn't know what Nakahiro Kijima in front of him was thinking, so he laughed and joked: "President Kijima is too enthusiastic."

Nakahiro Kijima, who is good at observing words and expressions, certainly understood what Higashinoji meant.

He was not embarrassed at all, but instead showed a smile: "I couldn't help myself after seeing Teacher Dongye. Please forgive me, please forgive me."

After he apologized twice, Tonoji finally withdrew his hand and took Hosokawa Koharu to sit face to face with him.

"I won't waste Mr. Higashino's time." Kijima Nakahiro smiled slightly: "We called Mr. Higashino here this time mainly because we hope that Mr. Higashino can participate in the art exhibition we hold."

As he spoke, he handed over the brochure and continued to explain: "The location is the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno."

"Oh? Has President Kijima contacted such a good place?"

Higashinoji showed some interest.

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.

This art museum is located in the unobstructed area of ​​Tokyo, which is home to cultural facilities. Japan has designated this art museum as an important cultural property.

Higashinoji had taken the time to visit it before. It was an art museum with a very atmospheric atmosphere and a very solid feel.

He took the brochure, but did not open it to read it. Instead, he asked: "I wonder what the theme of this exhibition of the New Century Art Association is?"

Generally speaking, art museum exhibitions are mainly divided into two categories.

One is the permanent exhibition, which has no set time limit and displays the exhibits in the museum. This is the permanent exhibition.

A planned exhibition is to set a theme, such as 'war', 'season' or 'abstraction', and display exhibits that fit the theme, with date restrictions.

This time the New Century Art Association will hold a planned exhibition.

Moreover, Higashino estimates that the works in their hands are still lacking and the quality will not be too high.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have dragged himself, a second-rate professional painter, over to make up for his expenses.

Although Higashinoji won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, it was in graphic design. Strictly speaking, he was only on the fringe of traditional fine arts.

“This time the theme is about the seasons.”

Seeing Higashinoji's question, Kijima Nakahiro immediately replied: "Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Choose any season to paint, and the subject matter is not limited. However, when it comes to spring, summer, autumn and winter, it is estimated that many members will paint scenery. .”

What he said made Toyoji couldn't help but nod.

It seems that Nakahiro Kijima doesn’t know anything about art.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter are the natural four seasons, so it is undoubtedly much easier to paint with natural scenery.

But since it is such an easy subject to solve.

Why did Nakahiro Kijima take the trouble to find him, Higashinoji?

This made Higashino a little bit confused.

As long as you randomly search the members of the association, you will probably have a lot of scenery paintings, right?

It seems that he saw Higashinoji's thoughts.

Nakahiro Kijima over there also showed off his bare feet and was not afraid of wearing shoes, and said with a smile: "Teacher Higashino must be very strange. This topic is obviously not difficult to solve, why do I still come to you, right?"

"Actually, we have something to hide this time."

Kijima Nakahiro sighed and winked at Kageyama Bunta beside him.

After receiving the signal from Nakahiro Kijima, Bunta Kageyama also took the initiative to explain the reason clearly.

It turns out that the New Century Art Association holds four or five exhibitions every year to stabilize its position in the Japanese art world.

The times for these exhibitions are basically set.

The National Museum of Western Art has also communicated with them that the exhibition will be held this month.

But who would have thought that during this preparation period, the Uesugi Art Association on the other side suddenly jumped out and said that it would also hold an exhibition.

This made it clear that they wanted to compete with the New Century Art Association.

And this sudden situation also disrupted the original arrangement of the New Century Art Association.

Kijima Nakahiro's original attitude was actually to simply put some works that had been exhibited before. If the quantity was not enough, he would put some works of reasonable quality to make up for the number.

After all, some art lovers only look at the famous final masterpieces, and are not very interested in the works of other painters.

But the Uesugi Art Association suddenly jumped out, and it was obvious that they were holding a provocative attitude. Of course, the New Century Art Association could not lag behind, and just kept silent and was beaten by the Uesugi Art Association.

So a secret contest began.

Nakahiro Kijima communicated with the museum and canceled the seven or eight paintings that were originally scheduled to be used to fill the quota. Instead, he went to other art museums in Japan and borrowed some works by painters who were relatively well-known in the country.

But even so, the number of seven or eight original works is still not easy to make up for.

One of the important reasons is that there cannot be too many loaned works, and there must still be some works from the New Century Association.

Otherwise, how embarrassing would it be if all the works of the New Century Art Association were loaned from outside?

You definitely can’t care about face!

Literati and artists generally take face more seriously.

After all, their reputation is tied to their income.

Like that kind of notorious professional painter, no matter how good your painting is, you will be blocked by a sentence in the newspaper, "You are not worthy of morality."

So Nakahiro Kijima and the others began to search among members and honorary members, looking for a few more famous authors with good drawing skills to help support the show.

try to find! Must find it!

It was in this situation that Higashinoji, as the honorary vice president, stood out from the crowd and was spotted by Kijima Nakahiro almost at a glance.

The most important thing is that Higashino Tsukasa is the manga author of Tomishima Publishing House.

With this level of identity under his belt, Kijima Nakahiro is relieved and does not have to worry about Higashinoji defecting from the battlefield.

Thanks to Yi Eternal Yi for the reward! Thank you so much!