topic The Lion Dance 1961　oil on canvas　203.0×183.0 Yagibushi 1962　oil on canvas　203.5×172.8 Twist 1962　oil on canvas　157.2×91.5

Music Music doesn’t have any concrete figures or shapes, but it can be represented some visual images such as paintings and videos. Genichiro Inokuma also painted some works that feel sounds. In 《The Lion Dance》, whirling patterns of various sizes are associated with an arabesque design in the cape used as a lion's body. Moreover, the vigorous touch of them also reminds us of the festival music resounding lively and the dynamic move of the dance itself. 《Yagibushi》 means a Japanese folk song. In this work, which extends far back, there are various colors and sizes of shapes painted as various sounds, such as a flute, a drum, a gong and a sonorous voice. They are inextricably linked with each other in a canvas in harmony. 《Twist》 is different a little from the two above. It has clearly shapes placed regularly and painted by vivid colors. We can remind of the people dancing who twisting their body rhythmically to the music with eight-beat time.

School days (1921〜)	Paris (1938〜)	New York (1955〜)	Hawaii (1975〜)	Hawaii �U (1989〜)
Self-portrait	Mademoiselle M	Magnificant Landscape A	Annular Esclipse of the Sun	The Dream of the Scarecrow
Mother's Figure	Flamingo Paradise	HIYAKU	Limitation of Space Creatures	Faces 80
Daytime	Birth of Venus (A)	Confusion and Order "A"	Living Creatures in the Weightless Zone	Two nudes and a Face
Night	Children in a Park	Avenue	City Germination	2 Nudes
In front of the Piano	Children Playing with birds	Composition ��2	Transparent City	Faces 40
Self-portrait	Landscape with a Dam	City Green Light	Germination in the Air	Space City Holiday
Woman in Kimono	Children at the Quay of the Chang River	Snake Line	Two Gates	Festival Day of Faces
Twilight	Family in the Car	The Lion Dance	Freedom Dwelling in the City	20 Faces
Woman in a Chinese Dress	Small cats in the Box	Garden	Space City Planning	Birds Dogs Faces Neighbors
Line in the Snow	Song for Cats	Landscape QR	Animals and Flags	1 Nude, 13 Faces, 2 Birds
Title Unknown	Man with a Pipe	The Road	Schedule of a Bride	Flying with Joy
Self-portrait	Les Eyzies Station	Yagibushi	Force to Blow up	3 Nudes 8 Faces 4 Birds
Woman Dozing off	Cherries	The City Blue No.2	Pink Circle Square	35 Faces
Oura Church, Nagasaki	Wife and the Red Clothes	Haniwa �T	The Constellation of Square	Playing with Birds
Nude	Wife and Gloves	Landscape GT	Map not a Map (E)	Birds and a Doll
Portrait of a Sitting Woman	Lady in a Yellow Skirt	City Planning (B)	Yellow Constellation	Robot Faces Dogs
Portrait of a Woman	Man Playing the Cello	Landscape BY	Map not a Map	Three Words
Atlier	Ballerina in a Roman Tutu	Black Circle	Landing at the Unkown World	80 Faces
Boy	Old Woman in Paris	City Green No.1	Space is the playground for the machines No.1	Nude 9 Face 15 Bird 2
Sea and Woman	Blue Dress	Kabuki No.1	Windows and Constellation	Simple Schedule
Two Boys	The Birth of Venus (B)	The City Planning (D)	Parade of Shapes	Two Venuses
Yotsuyamitsuke Covered in Snow	Morocco Man Selling a Tapestry	The City (Green No.2)	Rock Music	Mannequin and Birds
Inn at Mt. Myogi	Child selling Garlic	Two Shores D	Friday in May	Nudes and a Bird on the Roof
Two women	Girl wearing a tie	Color Land	Happier Camp	Reclining Nude and Birds
Self-portrait	Girl and leaves	Game of Sound	Faces 47	Festival for Faces
Self-portrait	People Living with Cats	Lively Street	Faces 32	One Sunny Day
Self-portrait	Dreams of Ballerina	The City Planning Yellow (No.2)	Faces 36(B)	Black Nude and a Horse
	Family of Cats	Water Shores B	Landscape E	Faces Dogs Birds
	Two Girls in Manila	Blue Streets	Non Gravity Zone	Building and a Nude
	Children in Philippines	Manhattan B	Antenna and Creatures	20 Faces C
	Reclining Nude	The City Green No.3	Windmill and Germination
	Woman and Cats	Horizontal Road	Answer from the Star
	Pot and the Portrait of a Sitting Woman	Sky Promenade	Satellite Telecast
	Portrait of Mr. K	Encounter	Pink Square
	Portrait of Mr. S	Teen Agers	Village of Circles
	Horse and the Clown	City Planning (D)	Place Where the Purple Exist
	Crows	Twist	Lovers in Eurasia
	Face		Vertical Jump
	Green Face		Brown in Black
	Two Children		City Brown
	Four Children and Cats		Circles Strolling
	Portrait de Mr. Kurachi		Map not a Map
	Cushions and a Nude		Different Letter
	Standing Group		Invitation from the Star
			Post Office
			25 Faces
			Faces 23(B)
			Rainbow Z1
			Birds Have a Rest
			A Flock of Baby Birds
			Letter for the 21st Century

Guen "An Artist's toybox" 　 "Over the years, there are many things in a painter's home that become true friends, and some that live quietly with us almost as lovers. I have never tried to collect things just for the sake of collecting. Only those things that appealed to me in an artistic sense or that served to nourish my work did I want to have around me. After spending much of my past with these articles, mainly in Paris and America, I have found that they had grown very dear to me."

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