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Ryūji Fujita (藤田 隆治, Fujita Ryūji, April 13, 1907 – January 28, 1965) was a Japanese artist and Olympic bronze medalist.
He was born in Hōhoku, [1] which is now a part of Shimonoseki city in Yamaguchi prefecture. He studied under artists Kyūho Noda and Hokkai Takashima. [2] His works have received accolades from the Institute of Japanese Style Painting, Seiryū Shaten, and the Bunten Exhibition. In 1934 he established the Shin Nihonga Kenkyūkai with other artists such as Kenji Yoshioka. [3]
In 1936, he won a bronze medal in the painting category in the art competitions at the Berlin Games [4] for his "アイスホッケー" ("Ice hockey"). [5] The piece was later purchased by the Nazi Party, [6] after which its whereabouts became unknown.
In 1938, he established the Shin Bijutsujin Kyoukai. Afterward, he moved to Kitakyushu city in Fukuoka prefecture, and continued producing work. He also worked as a lecturer at Saga University.
Named after Osamu Tezuka, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo University of the Arts or Geidai (芸大) is the most prestigious art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter-media, sound, music composition, traditional instruments, art curation and global arts.
Akiko Hatsu is a Japanese manga artist born on December 16, 1959, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
Sadao Abe is a Japanese actor, stage actor and musician from Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. He started his acting career after joining a theater company/talent agency, Otona Keikaku, in around 1992 and gained his popularity after the drama series Team Medical Dragon and as being the lead singer of the Japanese comedy rock band Group Tamashii. His stage name is a pun on notorious geisha Sada Abe.
Ichimatsu Tanaka was a Japanese academic, art historian, curator, editor, and sometime public servant who specialized in the history of Japanese art.
Takahashi Yuichi was a Japanese painter, noted for his pioneering work in developing the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th-century Japanese painting.There were many Japanese painters who tried Western painting and Western style painting in the modern age, but Yuichi is said to be the first "Western painter" in Japan who learned full-scale oil painting techniques and was active from the late Edo period to the middle of the Meiji era.
Minoru Kawabata was a Japanese artist. Kawabata is best known for his color field paintings. Between 1960 and 1981, Kawabata had 11 solo shows at the prominent Betty Parsons Gallery in New York. At the 31st Venice Biennale in 1962, Kawabata’s work was exhibited in the Japan Pavilion alongside that of four other Japanese artists. Kawabata has had solo exhibitions at the Everson Museum of Art in 1974, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura in 1975, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Ohara Museum of Art in 1992, and Yokosuka Museum of Art in 2011. Kawabata’s works are in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Artizon Museum, Everson Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Newark Museum of Art, Ohara Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokosuka Museum of Art, among others.
Motohiko Izawa is a Japanese writer of mystery novels and historical fiction as well as a historical researcher. He was formerly a news reporter for TBS and since April 2012 has worked as a visiting professor at Shuchiin University.
The Japanese School of Suzhou (JSS) is a Japanese international school in the Suzhou New District of Suzhou, China. On February 28, 2005, the Ministry of Education of China approved the establishment of the school.
Ōita City Art Museum opened in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Japan, in 1999. The collection includes Nihonga, Yōga, Bungo Nanga, crafts, modern art, and the Important Cultural Property Materials relating to Tanomura Chikuden.
Taki Katei was a Japanese painter working during the late Tokugawa period and Meiji era. He is an important figure as his career bridges the two eras and his work demonstrates some of the shifts occurring in artistic practice as Japanese society changed and expectations altered.
Yoshie Nakada(仲田好江) was a Japanese painter.
Kikkawa Historical Museum is a private museum of artefacts handed down by the Kikkawa clan, daimyō of Iwakuni Domain, in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located between Kintai-kyō bridge and Iwakuni Castle and opened by the Kikkawa Hōkōkai Society (吉川報效会) in 1995, the museum's collection totals some seven thousand items, including materials from the Heian and Kamakura periods, a painting attributed to Sesshū, and one National Treasure. There are four changing displays each year. Other materials once owned by the Kikkawa clan are on display at Iwakuni Chōkokan.
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.
Iwakuni Chōkokan (岩国徴古館) is a public museum in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Constructed between 1942 and March 1945 for the storage and display of the works of art and craft and historical materials donated by the Kikkawa family, former lords of Iwakuni Domain, the facility first opened in April 1944, operating fully as a museum from the beginning of the 1950s. The main building, by architect Satō Takeo, as well as storehouses of 1891 and 1944, are registered Tangible Cultural Properties, while the ancillary building constructed in 1931 as the former Kikkawa family offices in the city is a Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property. The collection includes a painting of Bukō Kokushi of the Kamakura period and the Ōuchi Edition Sanjūin, a pocket-sized printed version issued by Ōuchi Yoshitaka in 1539 of Kokan Shiren's Shūbun Inryaku, both Prefectural Tangible Cultural Properties.
Akira Itō is a Japanese post-war and contemporary Nihonga painter.
Kinuko Emi was a Japanese painter. Emi is best known for her abstract painting in bold colors featuring the motif of four classical elements. At the 31st Venice Biennale in 1962, Emi's work was exhibited in the Japan Pavilion alongside that of four male artists, making her the first Japanese woman artist to be shown at the country's Pavilion. She had retrospective exhibitions at the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery in 1996, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura in 2004 and Himeji City Museum of Art in 2010. Emi's works are in the collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Yokohama Museum of Art, and Takamatsu Art Museum, among others. Emi's daughter, Anna Ogino, is an Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist and emeritus professor of French literature at Keio University, Tokyo, who serves as the custodian of her mother's works and legacy.
Rakuen Noise is a Japanese light novel series written by Hikaru Sugii and illustrated by Yū Akinashi. The series is published by ASCII Media Works, under their Dengeki Bunko imprint, since May 2020, with five volumes released as of August 2022. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Akisato Shino, started in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive in March 2022.