RAKUZA Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Yoshikazu Kai) will open in October 2023 in the NFT marketplace “RAKUZA MARKET PLACE” for anime and manga, which is a world-class Japanese cultural property. We announced on August 4, 2023 that we will launch a new service.
The newly launched service provides an easy way for anyone to open an NFT shop, regardless of whether they are an individual or a corporation. This service enables creators to freely design their NFT stores to reflect their own style and world view. In addition, once an item is displayed in an opened store, it can be simultaneously displayed in the NFT marketplace “RAKUZA MARKET PLACE.
From August 4 (Fri.) to August 27 (Sun.), 2023, a NFT exhibition “Bujin-ga Exhibition SOUL OF JAPAN + ‘Takeshi and 13 Dragons'” will be held at the real NFT gallery ” RAKUZA NFT GALLERY LABO TOKYO” to celebrate the launch of the new service and to display original paintings by Masayuki Kojo, a warrior painter.
On August 4 (Fri.) at 1:00 p.m., a ceremony will be held to unveil the wall art by warrior painter Masayuki Kojo. The paintings will be converted into NFT and sold at Masayuki Kojo’s private store, which will be opened prior to the launch of the new service.
RAKUZA Ltd will continue to create a system that makes it easier for creators to sell their works and for users to support creators through new initiatives.
Store Example
New service to be launched in October 2023
With the launch of this new service, anyone, whether an individual or a corporation, will be able to easily open an NFT shop. With this service, creators can freely design NFT shops that reflect their own style and worldview. As a result, creators will be able to more effectively convey the goodness of their works, and purchasers will be able to more intuitively understand the creator’s worldview and enjoy NFT shopping. In the shop, you can exhibit any work, regardless of whether it is digital or real. Shops can also be linked directly like individual EC pages.
In addition, if you exhibit at the shop opened in Cho-Rakuza, it will also be exhibited in the NFT marketplace “RAKUZA MARKET PLACE” at the same time, so you can also search from the top page of RAKUZA. Shops will be available for anyone to open after the launch of the service.
About authorized creators
Prior to the start of the new service, famous creators of various genres gathered one after another as “authorized creators” to revitalize the “Rakuza Marketplace”. First, on August 4, 2023, Mr. Masayuki Kojo, an ink painter and illustrator who is extremely popular both in Japan and overseas for his “warrior paintings” depicting warlords from the Warring States period and the Sangokushi, will open a personal shop. August 4, 2023.
Profile of creator Masayuki Kojo
July 24, 1978 Born in Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture
Based in Uji, Kyoto, he believes that “a warrior is not someone who fights, but a warrior is a person who is determined”, and considers “warrior” not as a person who fights but as “a person who is determined”.その者の持つHe works as a “samurai painter” who paints the moment of “preparedness” of a samurai as “warrior painting” and draws the “prepared figure” from various angles, focusing on veteran warriors of the Warring States period, using ink.
With the desire to “change the future of drawing”, he aims to realize the “LIVE ART Koshien”, a festival for high school artists, and aims to increase the recognition of “LIVE ART”, and will present LIVE ART himself.
Not only various movies such as “Star Wars” “Avengers”, Collaborations with contemporary anime, manga, and popular works of yesteryear, such as the collaboration of warrior paintings in the anime “Jujutsu Kaisen” (currently held Jujutsu Kaisen Exhibition), have become a hot topic.
Various people such as singer Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi and baseball player Daisuke Matsuzaka are drawn as “modern samurai paintings”,
Artists, professional baseball teams, J-League, para-athletes, sports brands, etc., have gathered attention and become a hot topic for collaborative warrior paintings that transcend genres.
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At Japan’s first real NFT gallery “RAKUZA NFT GALLERY LABO TOKYO”
An official NFT exhibition and wall art unveiling ceremony for Mr. Masayuki Kojo, an official creator!！
From August 4th (Friday) to August 27th (Sunday), 2023, to commemorate the launch of the new service, at the real NFT gallery “RAKUZA NFT GALLERY LABO TOKYO”, We will hold the original painting exhibition type NFT exhibition “Warrior Painting Exhibition SOUL OF JAPAN + ‘Takeshi and 13 Dragons'” by Mr. Masayuki Kojo, a warrior painter.
We will exhibit and sell 13 diverse works. The work will be sold at Mr. Masayuki Kojo’s personal shop, which will open prior to the launch.。
On August 4 (Fri.) at 1:00 p.m., a ceremony will be held to unveil the wall art by Kojo Masayuki, a warrior painter.
The ceremony will be streamed live from the Rakuza Marketplace Gallery Lab TOKYO official YouTube channel. Anyone in the country can participate in the event online from home, so please watch it
Exhibition overview
Date: August 4th (Friday) to August 27th (Sunday), 2023
Business hours: 11:00 to 20:00 (according to the business hours of Yurakucho Marui)
Admission fee: Free
Artist visit: August 4th (Friday) to August 5th (Saturday), 2023
*There will be no exhibition on August 16, 2023 (Wednesday) as Yurakucho Marui will be closed.
*Please refrain from taking pictures of the works.
Outline of the unveiling event
Date and time: August 4, 2023 13:00-
Program Contents: Greetings from the performers, wall art, exhibition product announcement, talk session
Place: RAKUZA NFT GALLERY LABO TOKYO
7F Marui, 2-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006
Delivery URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_JnenUZ8VE
Major works by Mr. Masayuki Kojo, a warrior painter to be exhibited/sold
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