Create a user account with the form below.
Registering an account requires user verification. Member registration needs identity verification documents of the person in charge of your company.
Please keep necessary documents at hand while signing up. Required Documents
Personal Information
Account Type
User name (business/institution)
Required

Less than 100 characters.

Name
Required
Email Address
Required

Less than 31 characters

Required

Addresses or login IDs already registered cannot be used again.

Date of Birth
Required
year month day
Address

Less than 25 characters.

Required

Less than 25 characters.

Required

Less than 25 characters.

Required

No dashes, less than 10 characters.

For places without a postal code, enter “0000.”

Country
Phone Number 1
Required
Required

No dashes, less than 41 characters

Mobile Phone

No dashes, less than 41 characters

FAX Number

No dashes, less than 41 characters

Method of Payment
Required
Password

This site requires a Login ID and a Password.

Login ID
Required
Use Email Address
Use a Different Login ID

Addresses or login IDs already registered cannot be used again.

Password
Required


Password (Confirm)
Required
Email Newsletter
Check below if you would like to receive our Email Newsletter.
Receive newsletter
User Agreement and Privacy Policy

Please read below and check “I Agree” to proceed.

1. Purpose

Shibunkaku Co., Ltd. (the “Company”) establishes these Terms and Conditions for the purpose of properly and smoothly running this Website operated by the Company (https://sale.shibunkaku.com) (this “Site”) and ensuring a pleasant experience when you use the services on this Site.

2. Agreement

When using this Site, please carefully review these Terms and Conditions as well as the Shibunkaku Sale Terms and Conditions and the Consignment Agreement.
If you use this Site, you will be deemed to have agreed to the contents of these Terms and Conditions as well as the Shibunkaku Sale Terms and Conditions and the Consignment Agreement.

3. Compliance with the Terms and Conditions

When using this Site, you will comply with the contents of these Terms and Conditions as well as the Shibunkaku Sale Terms and Conditions and the Consignment Agreement.
In the event that you breach the contents of these Terms and Conditions, the Shibunkaku Sale Terms and Conditions, or the Consignment Agreement, the Company may suspend your transactions and disallow any subsequent use.

4. Individual Provisions

Individual provisions may be established for the use of each service on this Site.
In such case, you will be required to agree to each of these provisions before using the service.

5. Management of Member ID and Password
  • You are responsible for managing your member ID and password for this Site.
  • You may not, under any circumstances, assign or lend to a third party, or share with a third party, your member ID and password.
    If a log-in is made with a combination of member ID and password that match the registered information, the Company will deem such use to have been made by the customer who is registered under such member ID.
  • The Company will have no liability whatsoever for any damages that arise due to the use of your member ID and password by a third party except in the case of willful misconduct or gross negligence by the Company.
6. Prohibited Conduct

Each of the following conduct is prohibited with respect to the use of this Site:

  • Harming any rights, interests, or the reputation of the Company, other customers, or any other third parties;
  • Conduct that may interfere with the operation of this Site and hinder the provision of the service;
  • Placing a bid without a genuine intention to purchase;
  • Engaging in a transaction by impersonating another person or entering false information;
  • Violating a law or regulation or acting in a manner contrary to public policy;
  • Breaching any terms and conditions or provisions established by the Company; and
  • Any other conduct that is determined to be wrongful by the Company.
7. Revision of the Terms and Conditions
  • The Company may revise these Terms and Conditions as it sees fit.
  • A revision of these Terms and Conditions will become effective when it is posted on this Site, and any subsequent use of this Site will be subject to the revised Terms and Conditions.
8. Restrictions on Use; Cancellation of Registration

The Company may wholly or partially restrict your use of this Site or cancel your registration as a member without prior notice in any of the following cases:

  • You have breached any provision of these Terms and Conditions;
  • The registered matters are found to contain false information;
  • The credit card you have registered as a method of payment has been suspended;
  • You have failed to perform any obligation to pay fees or the like;
  • You do not reply to an inquiry from the Company for a certain period of time;
  • You have not used this Site for 2 years since the date of last use; or
  • The Company has otherwise determined that the use of this Site would be inappropriate.
9. Copyrights
  • Copyrights in all information and images provided on this Site belong to the Company or the information provider.
10. Exclusion of Liability
  • The Company may modify or discontinue all or any portion of the services on this Site as it sees fit and will have no liability whatsoever for any damages you incur as a result.
  • The Company makes no warranty whatsoever that the information provided for free on this Site is true, accurate, up-to-date, useful, reliable, lawful, or does not infringe any right of third parties.
  • The Company will have no liability whatsoever for any damages that arise due to a system interruption, delay, or stoppage caused by a failure of communication lines, computers, or the like, loss of data, or unauthorized access to data, or any other damages you incur in connection with the services on this Site.
  • In the event of an error in the displayed price due to the Company’s negligence, the Company may unilaterally cancel a bid regardless of whether or not you have agreed or approved. The Company will have no liability whatsoever for any damages you directly or indirectly incur in such cases.
11. Other Matters
  • The relationship between you and the Company will be governed by the laws of Japan.
  • In the event that a dispute arises between you and the Company, the parties will attempt to resolve such dispute in good faith, but if there is a need for litigation (including court mediation), the parties will submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the court with jurisdiction over the location of the Company’s head office as the court of first instance.

<Handling of Personal Information>


We believe that it is our social responsibility to protect strictly any personal information about our clients and our employees.
We confirm the Privacy Policy as the standard, and develop the management systems of personal information protection,
and will continuously review and improve it.

1. Acquisition and use of personal information

When we acquire and use personal information, we identify and convey the purpose of use.
We will handle the personal information within the scope necessary to fulfill the purpose of use.
We will take measures to prevent personal information from being used other than the purpose.

Purpose of use in business activities:

  • (1) Providing assessment, purchase, sales, and services
  • (2) Sending details about our artworks, services, exhibitions and events
2. Shared use of personal information

We may share personal information among the Group, in order to provide comprehensive services.
– Purpose of shared use:

  • Same as in Section 1, we will not use personal information out of the scope of use.

– Items of personal information which can be shared:

  • Name, company, department, title, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail and sales record.

– Cooperative shared companies:

  • Gallery Shibunkaku, Shibunkaku Publishing Co., Ltd.

– Person responsible for shared use of personal information:

  • Manager for Personal Information Protection, Shibunkaku Co., Ltd.

– Acquisition method

  • Written material, electronic data
3. Entrusting personal information

We may entrust personal information to a third party within the scope necessary to fulfill the purpose of use.
When entrusting personal information, we select a third party that meets a certain standard of personal information
protection and take reasonable measures including conclusion of NDA. We also properly supervise the third party to
ensure proper management of personal information security.

4. Provision of personal information to a third party

We will not provide any third party with personal information except when one of the following conditions is satisfied:

  • 1) Consent has been obtained from the principal
  • 2) Personal information must be provided to protect human life, health, or property and it is difficult to obtain consent from the principal
  • 3) Disclosure or provision of personal information is legally mandated for compliance with the Laws and Regulations
  • 4) The business entity is succeeded due to merger, spin-off, business transfer or other reasons
5. Optionality of provision of personal information

Provision of your personal information to us for the purpose of use specified above is arbitrary.
However, please note that incomplete information or absence of information may prevent your use of our services.

6. Acquisition of personal information by a method which the principal cannot easily recognize

We will not acquire personal information by any method which the principal cannot easily recognize without making it to the principal.

7. Disclosure, etc. of personal information

Upon receiving a request to disclose, correct, delete, or otherwise handle personal information,
we will respond appropriately and without delay to the request, after verifying the identity of the principal.
Any personal information acquired in the disclosure request or other procedure will be handled within
the scope necessary to fulfill the particular purpose of the procedure, including verifying the identity of the principal,
responding to the request, and using the data for a survey, etc.
If you want to request disclosure, etc. of your personal information, please send the
request form for disclosure, etc. of personal information as well as other documents
mentioned in, and post it to the following address.

SHIBUNKAKU CO., LTD.
355 Motomachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0089, Japan
Tel: +81 75 531 0001
Fax: +81 75 531 5533


Personal information handling on website

Our website are encrypted via SSL as required to protect your personal information.
When you access the website and provide your personal information, your browser automatically
encrypts the data by using technology called “SSL encryption” and sends the encrypted data to our receiving server.

I Disagree
I Agree