100 Notable alumni of
Tokyo University of the Arts
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The Tokyo University of the Arts is 92nd in the world, 14th in Asia, and 9th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Tokyo University of the 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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Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Occupations
- conductormusic arrangeractorcomposerrecord producer
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Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.
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Yūsuke Iseya
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- television actormodeldirectorfilm directoractor
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Yusuke Iseya is a Japanese actor, director, artist, and businessman.
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Takashi Murakami
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- film directorinstallation artistpaintersculptor
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Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. His influential work draws from the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of postwar Japanese culture. He is credited for designing the album cover for Kanye West's third studio album Graduation.
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Mansai Nomura II
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- Nōgaku artistactor
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Nomura Mansai II is a well known Kyogen stage actor, and film actor. He played Abe no Seimei in Onmyoji and Onmyoji 2, an original work by Baku Yumemakura. He received the Best Actor prize at the Blue Ribbon Awards for his work in Onmyoji.
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Tsuguharu Foujita
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- painterdrawerillustratorprintmaker
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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese–French painter. After having studied Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita traveled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern art scene of the Montparnasse neighborhood and developed an eclectic style that borrowed from both Japanese and European artistic traditions.
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Rentarō Taki
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- pianistcomposer
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Rentarō Taki was a Japanese pianist and composer of the Meiji era.
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. An alumnus of the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he started gaining attention in his home country with the graduate film Passion (2008).
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Yasushi Akutagawa
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- writertelevision presenterconductorradio personalitycomposer
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Yasushi Akutagawa was a Japanese composer and conductor. His father was Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Kōsaku Yamada
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- musicologistcomposerconductor
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Kōsaku Yamada was a Japanese composer and conductor.
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Shigeru Ban
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- international forum participantarchitectrestorer
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Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Many of his notable designs are structures which are temporary, prefabricated, or incorporate inexpensive and unconventional materials in innovative ways. He was profiled by Time magazine in their projection of 21st-century innovators in the field of architecture and design.
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Tōru Takemitsu
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- autodidactcomposerwriterfilm score composerpedagogue
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Tōru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation.
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Akira Yamaoka
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- composersound designervideo game producerguitarist
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Akira Yamaoka is a Japanese composer and music producer. He is best known for composing music for several video games in the Silent Hill series by Konami, among other games. Yamaoka also worked as a producer on the series, as well as composing for the Silent Hill film and its sequel. Since 2010, he has been the sound director at Grasshopper Manufacture.
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Eiji Aonuma
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- computer scientistgame designervideo game producervideo game developer
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Eiji Aonuma is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer at Nintendo. He is a senior officer within their Nintendo EPD division and serves as the producer of The Legend of Zelda franchise.
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Kōtarō Takamura
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- sculptorwriterpoet
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Kōtarō Takamura was a Japanese poet and sculptor.
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Ichirō Fujiyama
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- conductormusic arrangercomposersinger
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Ichirō Fujiyama, born Takeo Masunaga (増永 丈夫, Masunaga Takeo), was a Japanese singer and composer, known for his contribution to Japanese popular music called ryūkōka by his Western classical music skills. He was born in Chūō, Tokyo, and graduated from the Tokyo Music School. Although he was regarded as a tenor singer in Japanese popular music, he was originally a classical baritone singer. He also acted in various films, and was a close friend of Minoru Matsuya (1910–1995). His workroom has been reproduced inside the "NHK museum of broadcasting" as an exhibit.
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Shin Sang-ok
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- film directordirectormanufacturerscreenwriterfilm producer
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Shin Sang-ok was a South Korean filmmaker with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name. His best-known films were made in the 1950s and 60s, many of them collaborations with his wife Choi Eun-hee, when he was known as "The Prince of South Korean Cinema". He received posthumously the Gold Crown Cultural Medal, the country's top honor for an artist.
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Ikuma Dan
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- musicologistconductorcomposeressayist
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Ikuma Dan was a Japanese composer. Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Saburō Moroi, and Midori Hosokawa.
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Kaii Higashiyama
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- painter
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Kaii Higashiyama was a Japanese writer and artist particularly renowned for his Nihonga style paintings. As one of the most popular artists in post-war Japan, Higashiyama was awarded the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1956 and the Order of Culture in 1969.
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Tan Teng-pho
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- 1895-1947 (aged 52)
- Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts
- Studied in 1924-1929
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- painter
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Tan Teng-pho, was a Taiwanese painter and politician. In 1926, his oil painting Street of Chiayi was featured in the seventh Imperial Art Exhibition in Japan, which was the first time a Taiwanese artist's work could be displayed at the exhibition. Tan devoted his life to education and creation, and was greatly concerned about the development of humanist culture in Taiwan. He was not only devoted to the improvement of his own painting, but also to the promotion of the aesthetic education of the Taiwanese people. He was killed as a result of the February 28 Incident, a 1947 uprising in Taiwan which was repressed by the Kuomintang (KMT).
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Makoto Aida
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- performance artistsculptorinstallation artistphotographerartist
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Makoto Aida is a Japanese contemporary artist known for his provocative works of manga, painting, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Though less well known internationally than Takashi Murakami or Yoshitomo Nara, he is recognized in Japan as one of the preeminent figures of Japanese contemporary art.
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Yōichi Kotabe
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- animatorillustratormangaka
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Yōichi Kotabe is a Japanese animator and character designer. He has worked on several anime films from the 1960s and 1970s, on the Super Mario video game series, and the Pokémon series in television and film. He was an employee at Nintendo for two decades doing illustrations, character designs, and supervision from 1985 to 2007. At that time, he began to work as a freelancer for the anime and video game industry, including for Nintendo again.
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Akira Senju
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- conductormusic arrangerDJ producercomposer
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Akira Senju is a Japanese composer, arranger and conductor.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara
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- painterwriterarchitectdirectorpotter
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Hiroshi Teshigahara was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes. He is also known for directing other titles such as The Face of Another (1966), Natsu No Heitai (Summer Soldiers, 1972), and Pitfall (1962) which was Teshigahara's directorial debut. He has been called "one of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time". Teshigahara is the first person of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, accomplishing this in 1964 for his work on Woman in the Dunes. Apart from being a filmmaker, Teshigahara also practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana.
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Toshiro Mayuzumi
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- composerconductorfilm score composerchoreographermusic teacher
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Toshiro Mayuzumi was a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sources ranging from jazz to Balinese music, and he was considered a pioneer in the realm of musique concrète and electronic music, being the first artist in his country to explore these techniques. In the span of his career, his works are including symphonies, ballets, operas, and film scores, and was the recipient of an Otaka prize by the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Purple Medal of Merit.
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Masashi Hamauzu
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- composerfilm directormusic arrangersongwriterlyricist
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Masashi Hamauzu is a Japanese composer, pianist, and lyricist. Hamauzu, who was employed at Square Enix from 1996 to 2010, was best known during that time for his work on the Final Fantasy and SaGa video game series. Born into a musical family in Germany, Hamauzu was raised in Japan. He became interested in music while in kindergarten, and took piano lessons from his parents.
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Hiroshi Senju
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- painter
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Hiroshi Senju is a Japanese Nihonga painter known for his large scale waterfall paintings.
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Shigeaki Saegusa
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- musicologistcomposer
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Shigeaki Saegusa is a Japanese composer.
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Ikuo Hirayama
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- painteracademic administrator
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Ikuo Hirayama was a Japanese Nihonga painter and educator. Born in Setoda-chō, Hiroshima Prefecture, he was famous in Japan for Silk Road paintings of dreamy desert landscapes in Iran, Iraq, and China.
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Yoshinao Nakada
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- musicologistcomposer
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Nakada Yoshinao was a Japanese composer.
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Na Hye-sok
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- writerprintmakerpoetpaintersculptor
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Na Hye-sŏk was a Korean feminist, poet, writer, painter, educator, and journalist. Her art name was Jeongwol (정월, 晶月). She was a pioneering Korean feminist writer and painter. She was the first female professional painter and the first feminist writer in Korea. She created some of the earliest Western-style paintings in Korea, and published feminist novels and short stories. She became well known as a feminist because of her criticism of the marital institution in the early 20th century.
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Yoshitoshi ABe
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- screenwriterdrawermangakabloggerillustrator
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Yoshitoshi Abe, also stylized as yoshitoshi ABe, is a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He first gained fame in his work on the avant-garde anime Serial Experiments Lain. He is also responsible for the concept and character design for the series NieA_7. He is the creator of the dōjinshi Haibane Renmei, which was also adapted into an anime.
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Yuzo Saeki
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- painter
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Yūzō Saeki was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing modernism and Fauvist Expressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in early twentieth-century Japanese painting.
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Shinpei Nakayama
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- musicologistcomposersongwriter
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Shimpei Nakayama was a Japanese songwriter, famous for his many children's songs and popular songs (ryūkōka) that have become deeply embedded in Japanese popular culture.
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Masaaki Suzuki
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- university teachercomposerconductorchoir directorharpsichordist
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Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist-in-residence at Yale University and the principal guest conductor of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.
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Chiyonosuke Azuma
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- choreographeractortelevision actor
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Chiyonosuke Azuma was a Japanese actor and Nihon-buyō dancer. He appeared in more than 40 films from 1954 to 1993.
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Shin'ichirō Ikebe
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- musicologistcomposerfilm score composerclarinetist
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Shin'ichirō Ikebe is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.
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Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi
- Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerconductor
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Ken'ichiro Kobayashi is a Japanese conductor and composer. In Japan he is known among his fans as “Kobaken.”
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Akiko Futaba
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- actorsinger
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Akiko Futaba was a Japanese popular music (ryūkōka) singer. At of the end of World War II, she was one of the most popular female singers in Japan, competing with Hamako Watanabe and Noriko Awaya. In addition, she took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen, one of Japan's most famous annual musical television shows, ten times.
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Motoko Ishii
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- engineerlighting designer
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Motoko Ishii is a Japanese lighting designer. From 1965 to 1967 she worked at lighting-design offices in Finland and Germany. Returning to Japan in 1968, she established the Ishii Motoko Design Office.
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Shirō Hamaguchi
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- music arrangercomposer
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Shirō Hamaguchi is a Japanese anime composer, arranger and orchestrator. He is best known for composing music to the anime franchises Girls und Panzer, One Piece, and Oh My Goddess! and arranging/orchestrating music in the Final Fantasy series. He frequently collaborates with fellow composers Kohei Tanaka and Akifumi Tada on anime scores.
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Jun'ya Ishigami
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- architect
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Junya Ishigami is a Japanese architect.
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Seibo Kitamura
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- sculptor
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Seibo Kitamura was a Japanese sculptor. He is known as the sculptor of the 10-meter-tall Peace Statue in Nagasaki Peace Park. He is most often referred to as "Seibo".
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Taku Satoh
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- graphic designer
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Taku Satoh is a Japanese graphic designer born in Tokyo. He graduated in 1979 from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (currently Tokyo University of the Arts) in the Department of Design. He completed his master's degree in 1981. In 1984 founded Taku Satoh Design Office after working at Dentsu Inc. His work in graphic design includes "Pleats Please Issey Miyake" and the logos of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.
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Ryōhei Koiso
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- painter
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Ryōhei Koiso was a Japanese artist. He graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts western art department in 1927 and had a successful career from early on. During World War II he was often commissioned paintings depicting Japanese military scenes, such as the signing of the British surrender of Singapore, and Japanese infantrymen making their way through high grass fields in Malaysia. He returned to mainstream painting following the war, and painted until his death. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Huang Tu-Shui
- Years
- 1895-1930 (aged 35)
- Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts
- 1915-1921 studied art of sculpture
- Studied in 1921-1922
- Occupations
- sculptorartist
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Huang Tu-shui was a pioneer of modern sculpture in Taiwan. From his youth, Huang was familiar with the traditional carving of Taiwan, and was influenced by modern Western styles during his studies in Tokyo.
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Li Mei-shu
- Years
- 1902-1983 (aged 81)
- Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts
- Studied in 1929-1934
- Occupations
- painterprofessorsculptordirectorpolitician
- Biography
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Li Mei-shu was a Taiwanese painter, sculptor, and politician. Born to an upper-class family in Sankakuyū (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Saⁿ-kak-éng), Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Sanxia District, New Taipei City).
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Kiyoshi Nobutoki
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- musicologistcomposercellist
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Kiyoshi Nobutoki was a Japanese composer, teacher and cellist.
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Tamezō Narita
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- composer
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Tamezō Narita was a Japanese composer.
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Oki
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- musician
- Biography
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Oki Kano, known professionally as OKI, is a Japanese musician of mixed Japanese Ainu ancestry.
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Hiroyuki Iwaki
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- percussionistdrummerconductor
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Hiroyuki Iwaki AO was a Japanese conductor and percussionist.
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Fumio Asakura
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- sculptor
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Fumio Asakura was a Western-style Japanese sculptor, known as the father of modern Japanese sculpture and referred to as the "Rodin of Japan". He was a prolific artist, and his work spanned the Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa periods of Japanese history.
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Jiang Wen-Ye
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- 1910-1983 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- composer
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Chiang Wen-yeh or Jiang Wenye was a Taiwanese composer, active mainly in Japan and later in China. While often known in the West by renditions of his Chinese name, the three Chinese characters that form his name are pronounced Kō Bunya (こう ぶんや) in Japanese, and thus he is also known as Koh Bunya in the West. In his compositions, which range from for piano to choral and orchestral works, he merged elements of traditional Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese music with modernist influences. Due to the political turmoil surrounding his life, he came to be largely forgotten during the latter part of his life. After his death, however, his work has started to gain new recognition in East Asia as well as in the West.
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Nagayo Motoori
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- composer
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Nagayo Motoori was a Japanese composer.
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Yasushi Sugiyama
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- painter
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Yasushi Sugiyama was a Japanese painter of the Shōwa and Heisei eras, who practiced the nihonga style of watercolour painting.
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Tetsuya Noda
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- printmaker
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Tetsuya Noda is a contemporary artist, printmaker and educator. He is widely considered to be Japan’s most important living print-artist, and one of the most successful contemporary print artists in the world. He is a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of the Arts. Noda is most well-known for his visual autobiographical works done as a series of woodblock, print, and silkscreened diary entries that capture moments in daily life. His innovative method of printmaking involves photographs scanned through a mimeograph machine and then printed the images over the area previously printed by traditional woodblock print techniques onto the Japanese paper. Although this mixed-media technique is quite prosaic today, Noda was the first artist to initiate this breakthrough. Noda is the nephew of Hideo Noda an oil painter and muralist.
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Yasutake Funakoshi
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Yasutake Funakoshi was a Japanese sculptor and painter.
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Goyō Hashiguchi
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- painterwood engraverukiyo-e artist
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Goyō Hashiguchi was a Japanese artist. At the forefront of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, a revival of ukiyo-e, he designed fourteen woodblock prints which are regarded as masterpieces of the genre.
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Gen'ichirō Inokuma
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- painter
- Biography
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Gen'ichirō Inokuma was a Japanese painter. Inokuma is best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that allude to industrial landscapes, ladders, rail tracks, derricks, cranes, urban maps, and city planners’ blueprints.
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Kazushi Ōno
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- music directorconductor
- Biography
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Kazushi Ōno is a Japanese conductor. He is currently music director of the Brussels Philharmonic and of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of New National Theatre Tokyo.
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Tadashi Kawamata
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- painteruniversity teacherphotographervisual artistsculptor
- Biography
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Tadashi Kawamata is a Japanese installation artist. After first studying painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, Kawamata discovered his interest in the practice of installation. Using recuperated construction materials, like wood planks, he began building rudimentary partitions in gallery spaces and apartments to explore the perception of space.
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Yen Shui-long
- Years
- 1903-1997 (aged 94)
- Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts
- 1922-1927 studied fine art
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Yen Shui-long was a Taiwanese painter and sculptor, folk craft researcher, and art educator, who spent most of his life researching and promoting Taiwanese handicrafts, as well as cultivating Taiwanese folk craft talents. Yen was born in Ensuikō Chō, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Xiaying, Tainan, Taiwan), after 1950, Yan began focusing his works on both the indigenous people and scenery of Taiwan, manifesting his dedication to the land and culture of his home island.
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Riken Yamamoto
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Riken Yamamoto, born 1945 Beijing, China is a Japanese architect.
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Tetsugoro Yorozu
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- painter
- Biography
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Tetsugorō Yorozu was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in introducing the Avant-garde trend, especially cubism into Japanese yōga (Western-style) painting in the early 20th century.
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Kan’ichi Shimofusa
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- composer
- Biography
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Kanichi Shimofusa was a Japanese composer.
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Takanori Oguiss
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Takanori Ogisu, styled as Takanori Oguiss, was a Japanese figurative painter who lived and worked most of his life in France. He is known by his cityscape paintings.
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Isoya Yoshida
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Isoya Yoshida was a Japanese architect. He graduated from Tokyo Art School (now Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 1923. His style, known as sukiya, combines elements of traditional Japanese architecture and modernist architecture. Among his notable projects was the fourth iteration of the Kabuki-za, which was torn down in 2010 and replaced in 2013 by a new structure designed by Kengo Kuma. Yoshida was born and died in Tokyo.
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Wajiro Kon
- Occupations
- sociologistarchitect
- Biography
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Wajiro Kon was a Japanese architect, designer, and educator. He is renowned as the father of "modernology" (kogengaku), a branch of sociology which studied the changes in cityscape and people which emerged as a consequence of Tokyo becoming a modern metropolis in the early Showa Era.
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Yūko Hasegawa
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- art critic
- Biography
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Yuko Hasegawa is the director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and professor of curatorial and art theory at Tokyo University of the Arts.
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Akeo Watanabe
- Occupations
- violinistconductorteacher
- Biography
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Akeo Watanabe was a Japanese symphonic conductor, known for his recordings of the works of Jean Sibelius.
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Keiichi Oku
- Occupations
- composermusic arrangerkeyboardist
- Biography
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Keiichi Oku is a Japanese keyboardist, composer and arranger. He was the keyboardist in the Japanese band Spectrum from 1979 to 1981. In 2009, he won the JASRAC International Award for the background music used in the Ashita no Nadja anime television series from Toei Animation.
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Kazuo Yamada
- Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts
- In 1935 studied instrumental music course
- Occupations
- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Kazuo Yamada was a Japanese conductor and composer.
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Ryūtarō Hirota
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Ryūtarō Hirota was a Japanese composer.
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Kunihiko Hashimoto
- Occupations
- conductorcomposermusic teacherviolinist
- Biography
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Hashimoto Kunihiko was a Japanese composer, violinist, conductor, and musical educator.
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Eisaku Wada
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Wada Eisaku was a Japanese painter and luminary of the yōga (or Western-style) scene in the late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy, an Imperial Household Artist, a recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure and Order of Culture, an Officier in the Légion d'honneur, and a Person of Cultural Merit.
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Yoko Nagae Ceschina
- Occupations
- harpist
- Biography
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Yoko Nagae Ceschina was a Japanese-born patron of the arts and noted patroness of classical music.
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Narashige Koide
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Narashige Koide was a Japanese painter and illustrator, noted for his work in pioneering the Hanshinkan Modernism trend in yōga (Western-style) portraiture and nude painting in early 20th century Japanese painting.
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Akiko Seki
- Occupations
- singerchoir director
- Biography
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Akiko Seki was a Japanese soprano. She is commonly recognized as the founder of the movement of The Singing Voice of Japan (Japanese: 日本のうたごえ, Nihon no Utagoe / うたごえ運動, Utagoe-undō). In 1955 she was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize.
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Shin Kusakawa
- Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts
- Studied in 1914-1917
- Occupations
- composerviolinist
- Biography
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Shin Kusakawa was a Japanese composer famous for his doyo, "夕やけこやけ (Yūyake koya ke)"/"Sunset Glow."
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Noritaka Tatehana
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Noritaka Tatehana is a Japanese shoe designer born into a family that ran a public bathhouse. He studied fine arts, Japanese craft, dyeing, and weaving at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
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Chen Zhiqi
- Years
- 1906-1931 (aged 25)
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Chen Zhiqi was a Taiwanese painter.
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Tadashi Yanada
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Tadashi Yanada was a Japanese composer. His music was performed at Seijo Elementary School.
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Iwao Yamawaki
- Occupations
- architectural photographerphotographerarchitect
- Biography
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Iwao Yamawaki, born Iwao Fujita, was a Japanese photographer and architect who trained at the Bauhaus.
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Hirafuku Hyakusui
- Occupations
- waka poetpainter
- Biography
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Hirafuku Hyakusui, originally named Teizō was a Japanese painter in the nihonga style.
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Luke Hasegawa
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Luke Hasegawa was a Japanese artist and convert to Catholicism who was commissioned to paint murals remembering the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki for the Church of the Holy Japanese Martyrs in Civitavecchia, Italy.
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Ryuko Kawaji
- Occupations
- literary criticpoetwritercritic
- Biography
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Ryuko Kawaji was the pen-name of Kawaki Makoto, a Japanese poet and literary critic active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
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Tetsumi Kudo
- Occupations
- sculptorpainterillustratorperformance artist
- Biography
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Tetsumi Kudо̄ was a Japanese avant-garde artist whose multidisciplinary practice included painting, performance, installation and sculpture. Associated with the Anti-Art (Han-geijutsu) movement in Japan in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kudо̄'s provocative art was nourished by lifelong interests in science, sport and everyday objects. His work often presents a radically transformed and grotesque vision of the human body, calling into question its desires and its limits, as well as its future and origins. Never having officially identified with any one group or movement throughout his international career, the artist's body of work evades art historical classification.
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Sakunosuke Koyama
- Occupations
- musicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Sakunosuke Koyama was a Japanese composer and music teacher. He was the founder and president of the Japanese Music Education Federation.
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Cheng Maoyun
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Cheng Maoyun was a Chinese composer and a professor at National Central University and Hangzhou Societal University (杭州社會大學). He composed the National Anthem of the Republic of China.
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Jin Goto
- Occupations
- painterillustrator
- Biography
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Jin Goto is a Japanese nihonga and picture book painter.
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Takeo Yamaguchi
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Takeo Yamaguchi was an avant-garde Japanese painter of monochrome Art Informel works.
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Pehr Henrik Nordgren
- Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts
- 1970-1973 graduated with composed musical work
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Pehr Henrik Nordgren was a Finnish composer.
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Jitsuzō Hinago
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Jitsuzo Hinago was a Japanese sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Shiotsuki Tōho
- Years
- 1886-1954 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Tōho Shiotsuki, also known by his birth name Zenkichi Nagano, was a Japanese painter from Miyazaki. From 1921 to 1946, he taught art in Taiwan, and his surviving works and images depict and show a great deal of concern for Taiwan’s indigenous peoples.
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Erina Matsui
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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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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Masaki Fujihata
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Masaki Fujihata is a Japanese sound, installation and interactive artist. He is a professor at Keio University.
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Tamaki Tokuyama
- Occupations
- actoropera singer
- Biography
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Tamaki Tokuyama was a classically trained baritone and a famous singer of popular music in early Shōwa era Japan.
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Firoz Mahmud
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Firoz Mahmud is a Bangladeshi visual artist based in Japan. He was the first Bangladeshi fellow artist in research at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Mahmud's work has been exhibited at the following biennales: Sharjah Biennale, the first Bangkok Art Biennale, at the Dhaka Art Summit, Setouchi Triennale (BDP), the first Aichi Triennial, the Congo Biennale, the first Lahore Biennale, the Cairo Biennale, the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, and the Asian Biennale.
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Kikuko Kanai
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Kikuko Kanai was a Japanese composer and one of the first Japanese women to compose classical music in the Western tradition.
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Kanayama Heizō
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Heizo Kanayama was a Japanese painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Go Hui-dong
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Go Hui-dong, also known by the pen name Chun-gok, born in Seoul, was the first Korean painter to adopt Western styles. He spent most of his life in Seoul. He studied French there from 1899 to 1903 and briefly took a post with the Korean government. Leaving the post in 1905, he studied Korean painting for several years and then traveled to Japan, where he studied Western-style painting under Kuroda Seiki from 1909 to 1915. He returned to Korea in 1915 and sought to fuse traditional and Korean styles. Currently his house located in Bukchon Village is open to public.
