This exhibition is being held in the 10th year after the passing of the most prominent architect of postwar Japan, Kenzo Tange. This exhibition places its focus on the decade from 1949 to 1959, which spans from when Tange began working on his debut project, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (1952), to when he completed one of his early important works, the Kagawa Prefectural Government Office (1958), and presents a picture of Tange’s early years through contact sheets of 35-millimeter film images that he photographed himself. In this decade during which Tange debuted as one of the architects charged with the task of rebuilding Japan, made his first journey overseas, and became known as “Kenzo Tange of the World”, he left behind a vast number of photographs that he took himself with his camera. The photographs capture not only his own work but also works of traditional architecture, such as the Katsura Imperial Villa and Ryoanji Temple; the work of Le Corbusier; and also moments that he spent in the company of foreign architects during his travels, and they form an elaborate record of his activities during this period. The more than 70 original contact sheets that are being shown in public for the first time in this exhibition are marked in places with red trimming lines that were drawn by Tange himself. These lines reveal how the young Tange had been engaging with architecture, and they vividly convey the traces of the contemplations and struggles of the architect. In conjunction with this exhibition, a memorial symposium will be held on March 22, 2015 (Sun.) on the day of the 10th anniversary of Tange’s passing. The event will be moderated by the exhibition’s guest curator, Saikaku Toyokawa. The exhibition’s supervisor, Waro Kishi, will be among the panelists of architects and architectural historians who will discuss the architect Kenzo Tange and his work from many different directions.