*Available mid September 2026. Signed edition is pre-order now.

This is an announcement of the release of Fumi Imamura’s first publication, The Warm House. A contemporary artist, Imamura’s works involve the use of watercolor and collages onto glassine paper to depict her core subjects: flowers and plants. Her field of practice in recent years has expanded internationally, including her appearance in London. 

This publication is rooted in a series Imamura had been developing since 2015–The Warm House. When first exhibited as part of “Between Botany and Art” at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Japan, the series consisted of thirty paintings. The red flowers paving the wall evoked organs and blood veins, as if we had placed ourselves inside of a body. After ten years from its conception, new works have been added to the series. All colleges have come together at CAVE-AYUMI GALLERY (Tokyo) in March 2026, and caught many’s attention. This book compiles 57 pieces in total; the original 35 collages as the crux of The Warm House, and an addition of 22 works that have been produced anew this year.

The Warm House was at first a title suggesting a house that can protect her. Having become a mother in 2023, her environment, body, and mind underwent tremendous change. The house that once acted as the outer shell to shield herself has now become something that quietly opens up from the inside. From this aperture, the house was no more synonymous to relief or belonging, but has become a physical structure that allows for the boundary between the inside and outside to softly loosen up. This condition of mind had led to these red flowers.

Imamura’s flowers are delicately woven onto the red cover, as if an oshibana. A close inspection at the works guide you into the countenance of the plants that dwell in the most minute details of the pieces: the spanning red tones of the flowers, the ragged leaf holes, the vitality of the roots embodying a sense of life. Texts by Daisuke Ishida (Curator, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art), Julia Tarasyuk (Curator), and Imamura herself are scattered throughout the book, giving shape to a publication in which the nostalgia of a botanical encyclopaedia and a contemporary and fresh sensitivity coexist within a single title.

An exhibition will be held at Morioka Shoten to celebrate the release of the publication–a great occasion to look at the paintings alongside the book.

Book Launch Show

Fumi Imamura “The Warm House”

September 15–20, 2026

Morioka Shoten

13:00–19:00

Closed on Mondays