21 Notable alumni of
Kyoto City University of Arts
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The Kyoto City University of Arts is 945th in the world, 198th in Asia, and 68th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from the Kyoto City University of Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Yayoi Kusama
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- writervideo artistarchitectural draftspersoncollagistphotographer
- Biography
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Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and she is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
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Yutaka Sado
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- conductor
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Yutaka Sado is a Japanese conductor.
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Uemura Shōen
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- Nihonga painter
- Biography
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Uemura Shōen was the pseudonym of an artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her bijin-ga, or paintings of beautiful women, in the nihonga style, although she produced numerous works on historical themes and traditional subjects. Shōen is considered a major innovator in the bijin-ga genre despite the fact she often still used it to depict the traditional beauty standards of women. Bijin-ga gained criticism during the Taisho era while Shōen worked due to its lack of evolution to reflect the more modern statuses of women in Japan. During bijin-ga's conception in the Tokugawa, or Edo, period, women were regarded as lower class citizens and the genre often reflected this implication onto its female subjects. Within the Taisho era, women had made several advancements into the Japanese workforce, and artistry specifically was becoming more popular outside of pass times for the elite, which opened way for Shōen's success. Shōen received many awards and forms of recognition during her lifetime within Japan, being the first female recipient of the Order of Culture award, as well as being hired as the Imperial Household's official artist, which had previously only employed one other official woman in the position. In 1949 she died of cancer just a year after receiving the Order of Culture Award.
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Etsuro Sotoo
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- professorsculptordocent
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Etsurō Sotoo is a Japanese sculptor strongly influenced by Antoni Gaudí. His interest in Gaudí led him to convert to the Catholic Church. His most noted work are sculptures located in the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. He is nicknamed the "Japanese Gaudí" in his native Japan.
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Takeuchi Seihō
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- painter
- Biography
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Takeuchi Seihō was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga genre, active from the Meiji through the early Shōwa period. One of the founders of nihonga, his works spanned half a century and he was regarded as master of the prewar Kyoto circle of painters. His real name was Takeuchi Tsunekichi.
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Yasumasa Morimura
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- photographerpaintersculptorvideo artist
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Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance. He is known for his reinterpretation of recognizable artworks and figures from art history, history, and mass media through his adoption of personas that transcend national, ethnic, gendered, and racial boundaries. Across his photographic and performative series, Morimura's works explore a number of interconnected themes, including: the nature of identity and its ability to undergo change, postcolonialism, authorship, and the Western view of Japan – and Asia, more broadly – as feminine.
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Tadaoto Kainoshō
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- painteractorcostume designer
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Tadaoto Kainosho was a Japanese actor and costume designer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his work in the jidaigeki film Ugetsu (1953).
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Fuku Akino
- Years
- 1908-2001 (aged 93)
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- painter
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Fuku Akino was a Japanese painter. She was born in Futamata, Iwata-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture (currently, Nimata Town, Tenryu Ward, Hamamatsu City). She became known by her paintings of Indian themes, landscapes and peoples.
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Yang San-lang
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- 1907-1995 (aged 88)
- Enrolled in the Kyoto City University of Arts
- Studied in 1923-1924
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Yang San-lang was a Taiwanese painter. His works, heavily influenced by the French Impressionists, shows a gently romantic and realistic personal style.
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Fukuda Heihachirō
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- painter
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Heihachirō Fukuda was a Japanese Nihonga painter and designer.
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Tsuchida Bakusen
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- painter
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Tsuchida Bakusen was the art-name of a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style, active during the Taishō and early Shōwa eras. His birth name was Tsuchida Kinji (土田金二).
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Murakami Kagaku
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- painter
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Kagaku Murakami was a Japanese painter and illustrator, noted for his numerous Buddhist subjects and advancement in the techniques of nihonga (Japanese-style) painting in the early 20th century.
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Yoshimasa Ishibashi
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- television producerscreenwriterfilm producerfilm directorperformance artist
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Yoshimasa Ishibashi is a Japanese video, experimental film and performance artist based in Kyoto, Japan and the leader of the Kyupi Kyupi artist collective, founded in 1996. He has directed work for both art museums, including Kyupi Kyupi performances at the Palais de Tokyo and Tate Modern in 2003, and commercial television and film, his most famous creation being the Fuccons, a family of mannequins who first appeared in Vermilion Pleasure Night in 2000 and since in their own program Oh! Mikey and its spin-offs.
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Hideki Seo
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- fashion designer
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Hideki Seo was a Japanese-born French fashion designer and artist.
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Yumiko Shirai
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- mangaka
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Yumiko Shirai is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for her manga Wombs, winner of the 2017 Nihon SF Taisho Award.
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Nishiyama Suisho
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- professorpainterhead teacher
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Nishiyama Suishō was a Japanese painter.
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Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
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- painterscholartextile artistartist
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Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada is a Japanese textile artist, curator, art historian, scholar, professor, and author. She has received international recognition for her scholarship and expertise in the field of textile art. In 2010, she was named a "Distinguished Craft Educator - Master of Medium" by the James Renwick Alliance of the Smithsonian Institution, who stated: "she is single-handedly responsible for introducing the art of Japanese shibori to this country". In 2016 she received the George Hewitt Myers Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Kunihiko Moriguchi
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- textile artist
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Kunihiko Moriguchi is a Japanese textile artist who specializes in the yūzen dyeing technique. He is a Living National Treasure of Japan.
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Taimei Morino
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- ceramicistpotter
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Hiroaki Morino, known by his pseudonym as Taimei Morino (森野 泰明, Morino Taimei), is a Japanese ceramist.
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Yumi Karasumaru
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- artist
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Yumi Karasumaru is a Japanese artist. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy, and Kawanishi, Japan.
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Matsumoto Ichiyō
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- professorCouncillorpainter
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Matsumoto Ichiyō was a Japanese painter active during the Taishō and Shōwa eras. He was born in Kyoto into a family of yūzen fabric dyers. He graduated from the Kyoto Municipal Special School of Painting in 1915, and then continued his studies with Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871–1933).
