Minoru Takahashi Profile Born in Japan in 1959, Minoru Takahashi has continued sending in domestic competitions since the 1980s. He has achieved the prize title of “Asahi Creative Toy Competition” for the past 4 consecutive years, and he has also been awarded the Inamoto Tadashi Prize in the 5th Hands Grand-Prix. Since he has been recognized in these events, he has combined the ideas of wood,　mechanism, and playfulness to create the word “Mecha-ki-sm”.("ki" means wood in Japanese)  With this new word, Minoru designed the window display of Ginza Sony Building from 1993 to 1998. Afterwards, he held a group exhibition in Paris. He won the “Wooden Toy Craftsman Championship” in the TV program, TV Champion, in 2000. In 2002, he was chosen as one of 30 top artists in Japan.  Since then, he has been exhibiting “The Disappearing Time Machine”, which uses visual trickery, in “The Doraemon Exhibition”.  This exhibition is now making the rounds in Japan until 2005. As his greatest project, he executed a wooden mechanical airship, “The ACT-G”, which is the biggest in Japan (height 4m / length 4.5m).  It is located in the entrance hall of Misawa Aviation & Science Museum in Aomori.  He is still carrying on with his energetic activity by creating new projects 2005,He made The Championship Trophy of The International Junior Robot Contest in Mie. It is a mechanical torophy by visual trick which is called "Masahiro Mori Cup". 2006, He was invited from Trois-Revieres Canada. His exhibition made the new record of the number of visitors. １９５９　Born in Japan １９８７　"Asahi Creative Toy Competition" Asahi Jounal Prize, He recieved this prize for 4 consecutive years since 1987 １９８８　"The 5th Hands Grand Prix" Inamoto Tadashi Prize, １９９３　Ginza Sony Building Autum Window Display （from 1993 to 1998） １９９４ "GALERIE KOUKI"　Group exhibition in Paris １９９５　"Modern Mechanism Art"Ginza Sony Building １９９９　Kyoyto Tachikichi Exhibition １９９９　"Hida Takayama Woody Mechanism Competition" 　Hida Takayama Association Prize, ２０００　Workshop was featured on TV by ＮＨＫ　 ２０００　First prise"Wooden Toy Craftsman Championship"（TV Tokyo） ２００１ "Exhibition of Mechanism Dolls In Japan" Kyoto Takashimaya ２００２　Suntory Musium of Art[Tenposan]　 "THE DORAEMON EXHIBITION" The disappearing time machine which is using visual trick ２００３　Yokohama Sogo Museum of Art ２００３　Asahikawa Museum of Art ２００３　Nagoya Matuzakaya　Museum fo Art ２００３　Ooita City Museum of Art ２００４　Simane Prefectual Museum of Art ２００４　Ａｋｉｔａ　Ｃｉｔｙ　Ｍｕｓｅｕｍ of Art ２００４　Ｔａｋａｏｋａ　Ｃｉｔｙ　Ｍｕｓｅｕｍ of Art ２００４　Ｍａｔｓｕｍｏｔｏ　Ｃｉｔｙ　Ｍｕｓｅｕｍ of Art ２００５年　Kumamoto Prefectual Museum of Art ２００３　Misawa Aviation & Science Museum Aomori "THE ACT-G"（hight ４ｍ，length 4.5ｍ） ２００６　Justsystem&School Book Cover ２００６　Eｘhibition in Canada Lecture Hachinohe City Museum "Mechanism Handicraft" Hachinohe City Science Museum "Invention Club" Collections Koube City Young Association Science Museum Shingou Aomori Traditional Museum 　　Ikutahara Hokkaido ChaCha Toy Museum Misawa Aviation & Science Museum 〒０３１−０８０４　Aoba 3-19-8　Hachinohe City　Aomori　Japan Karakuri-koubou 　Minoru Takahashi ＴＥＬ　８１-１７８−４４−４８３１ ＦＡＸ　８１-１７８−４４−５００６ Ｍａｐ