[Sales Event] The Geisai “Art Market” and Its Pleasant Atmosphere Come Recommended @ Ueno Park

I visited Geisai 2018 again this year.
Brushing against the raw energy of talented students and their drive to master their craft, I feel as if I’m being drawn in — and a pleasant feeling wells up.Please see below for what Geisai was like.

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The Geisai Art Market

A bit away from the Geidai campus, in Ueno Park, is a selling event called the “Geisai Art Market.” Along the park path leading from the Ueno Park plaza in front of the Tokyo National Museum toward Geidai, booths are set up, each selling a wide range of goods — a regular fixture of the festival.

I always buy a draft beer at the food-and-drink area operating on the music-building side of Geidai before heading into the art market. It’s one of the very best ways to enjoy it.

At one booth, Geidai student Yuta Fukasawa was drawing caricatures (¥1,000 each).

Artworks were on sale at the same time: small pieces, but a postcard-size watercolor went for ¥2,000 and an oil painting about size 0 for ¥5,000 — affordable prices that sold quite well.

The booths gather along the park path connecting Ueno Park and Geidai.
With many accessory-focused stalls, it seemed a lot of women had gathered.Ceramics and such were also for sale, but the best pieces were marked “not for sale” — moments that made me think, “That’s a Geidai student for you!”

Even if you buy nothing, just looking at the works on sale at the booths is fun.
Held once a year, in the first or second week of September. It was still a slightly summery, warm day, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. And of course, together with the main event, “Geisai”!