Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
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or is one of the oldest and most prestigious art schools in Japan
. Located in Ueno Park
, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki
, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju, Adachi, Tokyo
. The university owns two halls of residence: one (for Japanese students) in Nerima, Tokyo
, and the other (for overseas students) in Matsudo, Chiba
.
The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music
(UK), the University of Sydney
and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts
, and the China Academy of Art
.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Located in Ueno Park
Ueno Park
is a spacious public park located in the Ueno section of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. It occupies the site of the former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa shoguns, who had built the temple to guard Edo Castle against the north-east, then considered an unlucky direction...
, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki
Toride, Ibaraki
is a city located in Ibaraki, Japan.As of March 1, 2008 , the city has an estimated population of 109,926 and the density of 1,570 persons per km². The total area is 69.96 km²....
, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju, Adachi, Tokyo
Adachi, Tokyo
is one of the Special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is located north of the heart of Tokyo. The ward consists of two separate areas: a small strip of land between the Sumida River and Arakawa River and a larger area north of the Arakawa River...
. The university owns two halls of residence: one (for Japanese students) in Nerima, Tokyo
Nerima, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. In English, it calls itself Nerima City.As of August 1, 2007, the ward has an estimated population of 703,005 , and a density of 14,443 persons per km². 12,897 foreign residents are registered in the ward. 18.4% of the ward's population is over the...
, and the other (for overseas students) in Matsudo, Chiba
Matsudo, Chiba
is a city located in northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2011, the city had an estimated population of 484,578 and a population density of 7900 persons per km²...
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History
The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (東京美術学校 Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō) and the Tokyo Music School (東京音楽学校 Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō), both of which were founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku (国立大学法人東京芸術大学). On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music" to "Tokyo University of the Arts."The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
(UK), the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts
Korea National University of Arts
Korea National University of Arts is a national university in Seoul, South Korea. Korea National University of Arts was established in 1993 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea as the only national university of arts with an aim to serve as a leading institution which cultivates...
, and the China Academy of Art
China Academy of Art
China Academy of Art is the highest university of art in China. It was founded in Hangzhou in 1928 by the government of Republic of China.-Introduction:...
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Department of Fine Arts
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)- Japanese Painting
- Oil Painting
- Sculpture
- Craft
- Design
- Architecture and Planning
- AestheticsAestheticsAesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...
and Art History - Inter-media Arts
- Conservation
- Film and New Media (Graduate school only)
Department of Music
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)- Composition
- Conducting
- Vocal Music
- Piano
- Organ
- String Instruments
- Wind and Percussion Instruments
- Early Music
- Musicology
- Traditional Japanese Music
- Musical Creativity and the Environmental
Organization
- University Art Museum
- University Library
- University Orchestra
- University Opera
- Administration Office
- Art Media Center
- Center for Music Research
- Geidai Art Plaza
- Health Care Service Center
- Institute of Ancient Art Research
- Oversea Student Center
- Photography Center
- Performing Arts Center
- Senior High School of Music
- Sogakudo Concert HallSogakudo Concert HallThe is a concert hall in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1890, it is the oldest concert hall in Japan. Formerly the Hall belonged to the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music....
- Training Center for Foreign Language and Diction
Contact information
- Tokyo University of the Arts
12-8 Ueno ParkUeno Parkis a spacious public park located in the Ueno section of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. It occupies the site of the former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa shoguns, who had built the temple to guard Edo Castle against the north-east, then considered an unlucky direction...
Taitō-kuTaito, Tokyois one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. In English, it calls itself Taito City.As of April 1, 2011, the ward has an estimated population of 168,909, with 94,908 households, and a population density of 16,745.86 persons per km². The total area is 10.08 km².-History:The ward was founded...
, TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
110-8714, Japan - Telephone: +81(0)50-5525-2013
Alumni
Artists
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Yasuji Mori Yasuji Mori was an animator who worked with Toei Animation, while it was still known as Toei Doga. He was also a famous illustrator of children's books.... (animator) Takashi Murakami is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art... (artist) Okakura Kakuzo was a Japanese scholar who contributed to the development of arts in Japan. Outside of Japan, he is chiefly remembered today as the author of The Book of Tea.-Biography:... (essayist) Kotaro Takamura was a Japanese poet and sculptor.-Biography:Kōtarō was the son of Takamura Kōun, a renowned Japanese sculptor.He graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1902, where he studied sculpture... (sculptor / poet) Eric Van Hove Eric Van Hove is a Cameroon raised Belgian conceptual artist, poet and traveler. He lives and works between Brussels and Tokyo.-Work:... (artist) Yoshihiko Wada is a Japanese painter.-Biography:* Born in Miyama , Kitamura, Mie, Japan in 1940, his father was a cleric.* He graduated from Asahigaoka High School in Aichi.... (oil painter) Yasuda Yukihiko was the pseudonym of a major figure in Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting, and is regarded as one of the founders of the Japanese painting technique of nihonga. His real name was Yasuda Shinzaburō.-Career:... (painter) Yokoyama Taikan was the pseudonym of a major figure in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. He is notable for helping create the Japanese painting technique of Nihonga. His real name was Yokoyama Hidemaro.-Early life:... (painter) Lee Shih-chiao Lee Shih-chiao was a Taiwanese painter. Most of his paintings were realistic, but he also created some cubist works in his mid-life.-Biography:... (painter) Na Hye-sok Na Hye-sok was a Korean feminist writer and painter. She was the first female Korean artist of Western painting and the second Korean artist who held an oil painting exhibition... (painter and author) |
Musicians
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Minoru Miki is a Japanese composer and artistic director, particularly known for his promotional activities in favour of Japanese traditional instruments and some of their performers.... (composer) Hajime Mizoguchi is a cellist and composer.Mizoguchi started playing piano in 1963, at the age of 3, and the cello in 1971. From 1978–1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello... (composer) Kotaro Nakagawa is a Japanese composer and arranger. He is a graduate of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music's school of music.He is the son of trumpet player Yoshihiro Nakagawa, the elder brother of trombone player Eijirō Nakagawa and the nephew of clarinet player Takeshi Nakagawa and trombone... (composer / arranger) Shinpei Nakayama was a Japanese songwriter, famous for his many children's songs and popular songs that have become deeply embedded in Japanese popular culture.... (composer) Saegusa Shigeaki is a Japanese composer.- Career :Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chūshingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National... (composer) Toshihiko Sahashi is an accomplished Japanese composer. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1986. Sahashi has composed music for various anime series , video games, movies, dramas, and musicals... (composer) Ryuichi Sakamoto After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as... (composer) Kazue Sawai is a Japanese koto player noted for her performance of contemporary classical music and free improvisation.She began studying, at the age of eight, with Michio Miyagi. She later graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.... (koto player) Tadao Sawai was a Japanese koto player and composer. He was renowned all over Japan for his skill at the Koto and also received big acclaim from his compositions... (koto player and composer) Makoto Shinohara is a Japanese composer.- Biography :Shinohara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, piano with Kazuko Yasukawa, and conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Woess. From 1954 to 1960, he studied in Paris with Tony Aubin, Olivier... (composer) Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan.He was born in Kobe to parents who were both Christians and amateur musicians... (organist / harpsichordist / conductor) Motoaki Takenouchi Motoaki Takenouchi is a Japanese composer, most recognised for his video game soundtracks during the 1990s, particularly for the Shining series of games... (composer) Kosaku Yamada was a Japanese composer and conductor.In many Western reference books his name is given as Kósçak Yamada. During his music study in the Imperial German capital of Berlin from 1910-13 he hated the times when people laughed at him because his "normal" transliteration of his first name "Kosaku"... (composer / conductor) Akira Yamaoka is a video game composer, sound designer, sound director, and video game producer who worked for Konami since 1993 until his resignation in 2009. He is best known for creating the music in the Silent Hill series; he also worked as a sound director and producer on the series as well as serving as a... (composer) Akio Yashiro was a Japanese composer, born in Tokyo. Yashiro entered the Tokyo Music Academy in 1945, where he studied composition under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Yujiro Ikeuchi, Akira Ifukube, and Tomojiro Ikenouchi, and piano under Noboru Toyomasu, Leonid Kreutzer, and Kiyo Kawakami... (composer) |
Others
- Eiji AonumaEiji Aonumais a Japanese video game designer and video game director. He currently works for Nintendo, and has overseen several installments in The Legend of Zelda series of video games.-Education:...
(video game designer) - Yusuke IseyaYusuke Iseyais a Japanese actor.He was born in Tokyo, Japan. With his modeling career , Yūsuke is known for Loreal , Men's Nonno magazine, Prada , and Asahi Aqua Blue....
(model / actor) - Motoko IshiiMotoko Ishiiis 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....
(lighting designer) - Hiroshi Masuoka (voice actor)
- Norio OhgaNorio Ohga, otherwise spelled Norio Oga, was the former president and chairman of Sony Corporation, credited with spurring the development of the compact disc as a commercially viable audio format.-Early career:...
(former president of Sony / singer / conductor) - Rin'Rin'Rin is a Japanese pop group which combines traditional Japanese musical instruments and style with elements of modern pop and rock music. It is a female trio of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music alumni who graduated in 2003...
(pop group)
Faculty members
- Masaki FujihataMasaki FujihataMasaki Fujihata is a Japanese sound and installation artist and a professor at Keio University.- External links :*...
(new media) - Osamu KidoOsamu Kidois a Japanese professional wrestler that wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He participated in the foundation of New Japan of 1972 and the foundation ofUWF in 1984...
(sculpture) - Atsushi KitagawaraAtsushi Kitagawarais a Japanese architect.-Bibliography:Atsushi Kitagawara was born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. While studying for a BA in architecture at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music he won first prize in the Japan Architect International Design Competition...
(architecture) - Takeshi KitanoTakeshi Kitanois a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...
(film) - Ken-Ichiro KobayashiKen-Ichiro Kobayashiis a Japanese conductor and composer.Born in Iwaki, Fukushima, Kobayashi's father was a high school teacher, mother was a primary school teacher. Kobayashi started composing music at the age of 11...
(conducting) - Kiyoshi KurosawaKiyoshi Kurosawais a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.-Biography:Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa...
(film) - Toyomichi KuritaToyomichi KuritaToyomichi Kurita is a Japanese cinematographer who has worked in both Japan and the USA.-Filmography:Kurita's credits include:*Afterglow*Taboo*Infinity*The Moderns*Cookie's Fortune*Daddy's Little Girls...
(film) - Joun ŌshimaŌshima Jounwas a Japanese sculptor and artist, noted for his great artistry and skill in bronze casting. There appears to be some debate about the correct attribution of the gō Ōshima Joun to either Ōshima Katsujiro or his brother Ōshima Yasutaro. Both were noted artists in metal, so the other gō in use at...
(sculpture), noted Japanese sculptor in the Meiji/Taisho/Showa periods - Tokihiro SatōTokihiro SatoRecognized for his playful interaction of light, Sato uses a large-format camera for exposures that last from one to three hours, while he moves through the space creating points of light or illuminated lines drawn with flashlights or flashes made by reflecting mirrors. The results are detailed...
(inter-media arts) - Takashi ShimizuTakashi ShimizuTakashi Shimizu is a Japanese film director, best known for the Ju-on series of horror films.-Filmography:...
(violin) - Kanzan Shimomura
- Masaaki SuzukiMasaaki Suzukiis a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan.He was born in Kobe to parents who were both Christians and amateur musicians...
(early music) - Toru TakahashiToru Takahashiwas a Japanese race car driver.- Career :In 1982, he was runner-up in Japanese Formula 3. The following year, he ran a dual campaign, racing in the Grand Champion Series and also stepping up to Japanese Formula 2http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=986.Takahashi was killed in the...
(education) - Kōun Takamura
- Kenji WatanabeKenji Watanabeis a retired male breaststroke swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. His best Olympic result was the 7th place in the Men's 200m Breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain...
(piano) - Yoshiaki WatanabeYoshiaki WatanabeHe graduated from the undergraduate program at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1980 with a degree in oil painting, and completed a graduate program in mural work in 1982...
(inter-media arts) - Koji YamamotoKoji YamamotoKoji Yamamoto is the name of:* Koji Yamamoto , Japanese actor* Koji Yamamoto , former Japanese All-Star baseball player...
(industrial arts)