On April 12, a ceramic reproduction of the “Sliding Door with Design of Wind God and Thunder God” was installed in the corridor connecting the permanent exhibition room and the special exhibition room on the third floor of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to commemorate its unveiling.
The newly unveiled ceramic board reproduction of the “Sliding Door with Design of Wind God and Thunder God” : 168 cm (H) × 115.5 cm (W) (8 panels each) 
The ribbon-cutting ceremony (from left: Kazuhiko Oshida, Chair, Board of Trustee, Yumiko Sugimoto, Trustee and Yoshiro Shimizu, Director)
Suzuki Kiitsu’s “Sliding Door with Design of Wind God and Thunder God” is one of the museum’s most representative works. However, due to conservation concerns, its public display period is limited, making it difficult to exhibit it on a permanent basis. Therefore, a new ceramic board reproduction has been created so that visitors can view it at any time. The original work is a set of sliding door paintings on silk. Initially, the four panels depicting the Wind God and the four panels depicting the Thunder God were mounted back-to-back, but they have since been remounted individually and are currently preserved as eight separate panels. In creating the reproduction, we paid meticulous attention to detail, faithfully recreating not only the artistic expression of the silk panels but also the three-dimensional appearance of the doorpulls.
Director Yoshiro Shimizu remarked, “I hope you will take the time to appreciate the texture of the silk, the way the ink bleeds, and the depiction of the door handles and transoms. I hope this space will become a place where many visitors can enjoy the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum’s masterpieces at any time.”
Reproduced with meticulous attention to detail 
The doorpull 
President and CEO Osugi Eitsugu explaining the exhibit to visitors 
Visitors who touch the exhibit as they view them
We hope this work will become widely recognized as a symbol of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.
Please be sure to stop by and see it if you’re in the area.
