3. When did it start in Japan?
There was no information which describes when
the graffiti came into Japan. However, I found some information about the leading
graffiti artists. KAZZROCK started his activity started his organization “VANGUARD”,
which does various activities in the street scenes such as, graffiti and hip hop
dance, in early 1990th. Afterwards, he went to the United States for
skill up, and joined a graffiti group in Los Angeles called “CBS”. After coming
back to Japan, he hold a one-man show named “Graffiti Art is Not a Crime”, at a
gallery in Harajuku. In the latter 90th, he started collaborating
with many other artists and brands, and in 1998, he established his own brand “KAZZROCK
ORIGINAL”.
In the latter 2000th, he was
asked to demonstrate his art skill at the garage of Tokoro-George(所ジョージ), one of the Japanese most famous comedians, on a TV show.
TOMI-E is also one of the famous Japanese
graffiti artists. When he was a teenager, he met the hip-hop culture. In 1991,
when he was 16, he went to the US and the graffiti on a large wall shocked him.
After coming back to Japan in 1994, he has been doing his activities in various
places such as, street walls, CD jackets, company advertisements, and club
tours to do live performances. Recently, he has been painting on Japanese
papers called “Washi(和紙)”. In 2006, a movie called “TAKI-183”
which sat him as the model was shown.
4. Is there some places that we can do
graffiti legally in Japan?
I
couldn’t find any place that people can do graffiti freely, like the one in
Venice Beach in California. However, there are some places that permit tacitly
graffiti done by general citizens. For example, in Yokohama, you can see
graffiti under the guardrail along National Highway 16. These graffiti are done
illegally, but the city just winks at it. Some artists are even asked to paint
on the walls or shutters by the local government.
In the graffiti world, they have a tacit
rule not to do unskillful paint on a skillful paint. By using this rule, some
local governments ask famous and skilled artists to paint first, to avoid
people to paint unskillful graffiti which are less artistic. In 2005, an NPO in
Shibuya draw graffiti made a legal wall of Miyashita Park. In addition, the
number of shopping district which many shops are closing and many shutters are
down is increasing recently in Japan. To make these “Shutter Districts” bright,
there are activities to ask artists and students to paint on shutters. In
Shimokitazawa Ichibangai（下北沢一番街）, a shopping
district in Tokyo, they started the activity to ask for volunteers of university
students and artists in 2003. The district’s association pay for the paint and
cure and their youth group paint the basecoat. They say that not only their
wonderful paintings helped to prevent scribbling, but also many people stops
their feet to see them.
Bibliography (Sorry for all the bibliographies being Japanese. All of the questions were graffiti in Japan, so I couldn't find English ones. I hope you can enjoy them by their photos.)
KAZZROCK GRAFFITI SITE.Retrieved June 29, 2016, from http://www.kazzrock.com/profile.htm
グラフィティ・日本で活躍するアーティストまとめ | Graffical Market. Retrieved June 29, 2016, from http://grafficalmarket.com/artist-matome/
TOMI-E | official site. Retrieved June 29, 2016, from http://www.tomi-e.jp/biography_jp.html
Legalwall. (2005, November 9). Retrieved June 29, 2016, from http://legalwall.komposition.org/index.php?catid=88
下北沢一番街 公式ホームページ しもきたイチバンどっとこむ | シャッターギャラリー. (2014). Retrieved June 29, 2016, from http://www.shimokita1ban.com/gallery
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