Gallery Hashimoto

Closes Sept. 27

This past weekend, the 11th version of Geisai, Takashi Murakami's art spectacle, attracted nearly 1,000 young artists who assembled their own stalls in Odaiba's Tokyo Big Sight, home of the similar DesignFesta. While there was a lot to see, and tons of creative energy in the air, there weren't many surprises — much of what was on show came close to the aesthetic of Murakami's own KaiKai KiKi studio stable of artists. HIROKO won first place from the judges for a well-installed set of cute drawings that looked, well, like manga.