25 Notable alumni of
Tama Art University
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Tama Art University is 443rd in the world, 89th in Asia, and 37th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Tama Art University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Yumi Matsutoya
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- recording artistsingercomposersinger-songwriterpianist
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Yumi Matsutoya, nicknamed Yuming (ユーミン, Yūmin), is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and pianist. Generally the writer of both the lyrics and the music in her songs, she is renowned for her idiosyncratic voice and live performances, and is one of the most prominent figures in the history of Japanese popular music.
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Kōichi Satō
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- film actor
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Koichi Sato is a Japanese actor. He is the son of actor Rentarō Mikuni. He is known for his acting skills and has won three individual Blue Ribbon Awards in the categories of Best Newcomer (1982), Best Actor (2003), and Best Supporting Actor (2024). He is the first actor to win three individual awards since his father, Rentarō Mikuni.
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Issey Miyake
- Enrolled in Tama Art University
- In 1963 studied design
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- fashion designerdesignerbusinesspersonperfumer
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Issey Miyake was a Japanese-French fashion designer. He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which became his best-known product.
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Ryō Katō
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- child actoractor
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Ryō Katō is a Japanese actor and tarento. He graduated from the Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Art and Communication at Tama Art University. He is represented with Cube.
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Naoto Takenaka
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- owarai tarentoprofessorcomedianseiyūfilm director
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Naoto Takenaka is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi. He is also known as the voice of Samuel L. Jackson in the dubbed version of the Avengers, as Nicholas "Nick" Fury.
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Mika Ninagawa
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- photographerfilm director
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Mika Ninagawa is a Japanese photographer and director, known for her brightly colored photographs of flowers, goldfish, and landscapes.
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Makoto Wada
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- essayistgraphic designerscreenwritercomposerlyricist
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Makoto Wada was a Japanese illustrator, essayist, and film director.
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Hiroyuki Imaishi
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- animatorscreenwriteranimation directorfilm director
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Hiroyuki Imaishi is a Japanese anime director, animator and co-founder of Studio Trigger. His style is marked by fast and frantic animation combined with elaborate storyboarding and punchy direction. Prior to founding Trigger, he was an animator and director at Gainax. His most well-known works include Gurren Lagann (2007), Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (2010), Kill la Kill (2013), Promare (2019), and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022).
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Usamaru Furuya
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- mangaka
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Usamaru Furuya is a Japanese manga artist.
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Gengoroh Tagame
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- screenwritermangakawriterillustrator
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Gengoroh Tagame is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist. He is regarded as the most prolific and influential creator in the gay manga genre. Tagame began contributing manga and prose fiction to Japanese gay men's magazines in the 1980s, after making his debut as a manga artist in the yaoi (male-male romance) manga magazine June while in high school. As a student he studied graphic design at Tama Art University, and worked as a commercial graphic designer and art director to support his career as a manga artist. His manga series The Toyed Man (嬲り者, Naburi-Mono), originally serialized in the gay men's magazine Badi from 1992 to 1993, enjoyed breakout success after it was published as a book in 1994. After co-founding the gay men's magazine G-men in 1995, Tagame began working as a gay manga artist full-time.
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Naoto Fukasawa
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- university teacherdesigner
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Naoto Fukasawa is a Japanese designer, author, and educator, working in the fields of product and furniture design. He is known for his product design work with the Japanese retail company Muji, as well as collaborations with companies such as Herman Miller, Alessi, B&B Italia, Emeco, Magis, and HAY.
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Masahiro Ito
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- television producerscreenwritergraphic designeractor
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Masahiro Ito is a Japanese video game artist best known for his work with Team Silent.
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Akemi Takada
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- animatormangakacharacter designerillustrator
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Akemi Takada is a Japanese manga artist and anime character designer born in Tokyo, Japan. Her character-design work is one of the more recognizable styles of the 1980s, when she worked on series like Creamy Mami and Kimagure Orange Road. She is also noted for her long collaboration with director Mamoru Oshii. She graduated from Tama Art University, after which she worked for Tatsunoko Pro. She is currently a freelance manga artist with her own studio, though she is also a member of the creative group Headgear. She also has her own designer jewelry store called Diakosmos.
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Kunio Katō
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- animatorvideographerfilm directorillustrator
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Kunio Katō is a Japanese animator known for the short film La Maison en Petits Cubes which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He also created The Diary Of Tortov Roddle, a surrealistic dream adventure.
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Kentarō Ōtani
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- film director
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Kentarō Ōtani is a Japanese film director.
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Nobuo Sekine
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- land artistsculptor
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Nobuo Sekine was a Japanese sculptor who resided in both Tokyo, Japan, and Los Angeles, California.
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Kishio Suga
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- installation artistsculptor
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Kishio Suga, is a Japanese sculptor and installation artist currently living in Itō, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Yumehito Imanari
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 40)
- Biography
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Yumehito Imanari is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for CyberFight. He appears on the Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) brand under his real name, and on the DDT Pro-Wrestling brand as part of the Pheromones stable under the name Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari (今成”ファンタスティック”夢人, Imanari "Fantasutikku" Yumehito).
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Hidetoshi Nagasawa
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- installation artistsculptorarchitect
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Hidetoshi Nagasawa was a Japanese sculptor and architect, who lived and worked in Italy from 1967 until his death in 2018.
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Sayaka Osakabe
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- women's rights activist
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Sayaka Osakabe is a Japanese women's rights activist and politician. She is known for popularizing the term: "matahara" (referring to the act of harassing pregnant employees and forcing them to quit their position at work) and raising awareness in Japan that acts of matahara are illegal. She was a 2015 winner of the US State Department's International Women of Courage Award. In April of 2023, Osakabe was elected to the City Assembly of Yokohama, representing the Aoba Ward.
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Yuken Teruya
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- painterdraftsperson
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Yuken Teruya is one of the most representative and most successful artists in a generation of Japanese artists born in the 1970s, who came of age amidst the disasters and economic decline of Japan during the 1990s. His is currently based in New York City and Berlin.
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Erina Matsui
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- painter
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Erina Matsui is a Japanese contemporary artist. She is known for her surreal self-portraits, mostly done as oil paintings. Her work has been praised for its jarring visual impact as it defies normal representations of childhood being cute and innocent.
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Ryūji Miyamoto
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- photographer
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Ryūji Miyamoto is a Japanese photographer, best known as the “ruins photographer”. Having studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo, he taught himself photography and began as an architectural journalist for magazines and newspapers. Inspired by the landscapes of post-war Japan that marked his childhood he came to reckon the imagery of destruction when he received a commission from Asahi Graph (pictorial journal) to document the demolition of the Nakano Prison in Tokyo.
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Johanna Keimeyer
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- painter
- Biography
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Johanna Keimeyer is a German artist known for her experiential work. She has designed lighting fixtures and experimented with various photography techniques. Her work often integrates technology with art, fashion, and design.
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Takeshi Motomiya
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- visual artist
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Takeshi Motomiya is a multidisciplinary Japanese artist living in Barcelona since 1986. Throughout his career, he has worked within various visual arts disciplines that include painting, engraving, and sculpture. Characterized by his work of textures and natural pigment colors, his work is mainly based on abstract art and shows some attributes of figurativism and abstract expressionism, infused with ancient Japanese gods, biblical content, and Greek and Egyptian mythology.
