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Kobe Fashion Museum will hold a special gallery talk on September 11, 2026, ahead of the opening of its special exhibition 'Shigeru Mizuki: The Soul of Manga.' The museum says the event will feature Naoko Haraguchi, Shigeru Mizuki’s eldest daughter, who will speak about the highlights of the exhibition and about her father.
The talk is positioned as a pre-event for the exhibition, which opens the following day, September 12. The museum’s announcement frames the program as an opportunity to hear firsthand remarks tied to the exhibition’s curatorial focus and to Mizuki’s life and work through a family member closely connected to his legacy.
Shigeru Mizuki is widely known as a major figure in Japanese manga, and the museum is using the pre-opening program to draw attention to the exhibition before visitors can see it in full. The announcement does not provide further details about the gallery talk format, but it identifies the session as a special talk and places it within the museum’s schedule for the exhibition launch period.
The event will take place at Kobe Fashion Museum in Kobe, Japan, according to the museum’s notice. No additional venue information was given in the source material, and the museum did not publish further program specifics beyond the date and the speaker’s role.
The exhibition title announced by the museum is 'Shigeru Mizuki: The Soul of Manga,' and the pre-event is explicitly described as a special gallery talk for that show. The museum’s notice emphasizes the appearance of Haraguchi as a speaker, linking the program to the opening of the special exhibition on September 12, 2026.
The announcement was published as a short pre-opening notice and does not include a broader schedule of related events. For now, the museum has confirmed only the one-day gallery talk on September 11 and the opening of 'Shigeru Mizuki: The Soul of Manga' on September 12.
