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 MARGARET PRICE
Gallery Tokonoma’s Gold Coast-based director and curator,
Margaret Price, is an author who was formerly a journalist
and newsreader at Japan’s equivalent of the ABC. She is
a celebrity in the world of Tea Ceremony (an exacting aesthetic
and spiritual art) and brings to the enterprise a decade of experience
in promoting Australian craft-arts among the 5
million tea ceremony aficionados in Japan and, now, promoting
Japanese artists in Australia.
 TOSHIKO
FUKUDA
Toshiko Fukuda is the proprietress of renowned Tokyo restaurant
Nabeya with her husband, Hiroshi, an author
and scholar specializing in Edo Period food culture. Margaret
and Toshiko shared the same tea ceremony
teachers in Tokyo for many years and in 1997 co-founded The Little
Tea Society (dedicated to promoting the
refinements of Japanese culture through tea. The salon-style
tea school Margaret and Toshiko founded
continues under Toshiko’s direction. The Little Tea Society
holds annual tea gatherings on the Gold Coast
and at various Japanese locations each year.
 HIDENORI
YOSHIDA
Hidenori Yoshida is Gallery Tokonoma’s advisor on art
matters. As editor-in-chief of one of Japan’s largest art
magazines, Ichimai no E, he is well-placed to scout leading new
talent in Japan for Gallery Tokonoma. Hidenori worked as editor
for Japan’s leading glossy magazine Kateigaho and luxury
publications of the parent company Sekai Bunka-sha before taking
his current position at Ichimai no E. He still works as an editorial
advisor for Sekai Bunka-sha.
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