Tokyo University of the Arts

History

Under the establishment of the National School Establishment Law, the university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School and the **Tokyo Music School **, both founded in 1887. The former Tokyo Fine Arts School was then restructured as the Faculty of Fine Arts under the university.

Originally male-only, the school began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. The doctoral degree in fine art practice initiated in the 1980s was one of the earliest programs to do so globally. After the abolition of the National School Establishment Law and the formation of the National University Corporations on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the . 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 some of the nation's most highly regarded art and music institutions the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of applied Arts, Vienna (Austria), the École des Beaux-Arts (France), 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 Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Departments

Tokyo University of the Arts Senju Campus.JPG|Senju Campus The oldest Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Concert Hall.jpg|Oldest Music Concert Hall Sogakudo1926.jpg|in 1926

Department of Fine Arts

(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)

• Japanese Painting
• Oil Painting
• Sculpture
• Craft
• Design
• Architecture and Planning
• Aesthetics and Art History
• Inter-media Arts
• Global Art Practice
• Conservation

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 Environment

Graduate School of Film and New Media

(Only for graduate students)

• Film production
• New media
• Animation

Graduate School of Global Arts

• Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices

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 Hall
• Training Center for Foreign Language and Diction
• Center for Curatorial Studies

Alumni

Ryuichisakamoto.jpg|Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023) Hiroshi Teshigahara.jpg|Film director Teshigahara Hiroshi (1927-2001) Artist Carl Randall.jpg|Painter Carl Randall (born 1975). Winner of the 2012 Nomura Art Prize at Tokyo Geidai. File:Hashimoto Qunihico.jpg|composer Kunihiko Hashimoto (1904–1949) Mayuzumi toshirou.jpg|composer Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–1997) Iwaki and yamamoto.JPG|conductor Hiroyuki Iwaki(left) and Naozumi Yamamoto(right)

Artists

• Erina Matsui (painter)
• Aiko Miyanaga (sculptor)
• Firoz Mahmud (Bangladeshi contemporary Artist / painter)
• Eric Van Hove (Belgian artist)
• Takashi Murakami (artist)
• Yoshitoshi Abe (cartoonist / illustrator)
• Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill (metalworker and irogane researcher)
• Shin Egashira (Architect/ Sculptor)
• Tsuguharu Foujita (oil painter / sculptor)
• Shigeo Fukuda (graphic designer)
• Jin Goto (artist / painter - Nihonga painting)
• Fuyuko Matsui (painter)
• Kaii Higashiyama (painter)
• Ikuo Hirayama (painter)
• Shunsō Hishida (painter)
• Eiko Ishioka (designer)
• Mari Katayama (textile artist and photographer)
• Tōichi Katō (painter)
• Gyokudo Kawai (painter)
• Kim Su-keun (architect)
• Kim Yong-jun (art critic)
• Ryōhei Koiso (oil painter)
• Yōichi Kotabe (animator)
• Seiji Kurata (photographer)
• Tetsuya Noda (artist)
• Kakuzō Okakura (essayist)
• Tarō Okamoto (artist)
• Yukie Osumi (metalsmith)
• Carl Randall (painter)
• Lee Shih-chiao (painter)
• Kanzan Shimomura (painter)
• Yasushi Sugiyama (painter)
• Shinzaburo Takeda (printmaker / painter)
• Masao Tamiya (graphic artist)
• Tadao Tominari (photographer)
• Kōtarō Takamura (sculptor / poet)
• Hiroshi Teshigahara (film director)
• Eisaku Wada (painter / faculty)
• Yoshihiko Wada (oil painter)
• Tsubasa Yamaguchi (manga artist)
• Iwao Yamawaki (photographer / architect)
• Ryumon Yasuda (painter / sculptor)
• Taikan Yokoyama (painter)
• Yassan (GPS drawing)
• Yukihiko Yasuda (painter)
• Yorozu Tetsugoro (painter)

Musicians

• Yasushi Akutagawa (composer)
• Ikuma Dan (composer)
• Ichiro Fujiyama (singer / composer)
• Akiko Futaba (singer)
• Mihoko Fujimura (operatic mezzo-soprano)
• Kunihiko Hashimoto (composer)
• Shiro Hamaguchi (composer / arranger)
• Masashi Hamauzu (composer)
• Hikaru Hayashi (composer)
• Ryohei Hirose (composer)
• Shin-ichiro Ikebe (composer)
• Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor)
• Taku Iwasaki (composer)
• Hiroshi Kajiwara (pianist)
• Ken'ichiro Kobayashi (conductor)
• Jo Kondo (composer)
• Hayato Matsuo (composer)
• Toshiro Mayuzumi (composer)
• Minoru Miki (composer)
• Hajime Mizoguchi (composer)
• Makoto Moroi (composer)
• Kōtarō Nakagawa (composer / arranger)
• Akira Nishimura (composer)
• Shigeaki Saegusa (composer)
• Toshihiko Sahashi (composer)
• Ryuichi Sakamoto (composer)
• Kazue Sawai (koto player)
• Tadao Sawai (koto player and composer)
• Tatsuo Sasaki (Timpani/marimba player)
• Makoto Shinohara (composer)
• Masaaki Suzuki (organist / harpsichordist / conductor)
• Motoaki Takenouchi (composer)
• Yuzo Toyama (composer / conductor)
• Rentarō Taki (composer)
• Chiyuki Urano (baritone)
• Kosaku Yamada (composer / conductor)
• Kazuo Yamada (conductor)
• Akio Yashiro (composer)
• Akeo Watanabe (conductor)
• Diramore (composer / music director)

Others

• Kenji Ekuan (industrial designer)
• Eiji Aonuma (video game designer)
• Li Zuixiong (conservation scientist)
• Norio Ohga (former president of Sony / singer / conductor)
• Rin' (pop group)

Faculty members

• Masaki Fujihata (new media)
• (inter-media arts)
• Osamu Kido (sculpture)
• Atsushi Kitagawara (architecture)
• Takeshi Kitano (film)
• Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (conducting)
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa (film)
• Toyomichi Kurita (film)
• Joun Ōshima (sculpture), noted Japanese sculptor in the Meiji/Taisho/Showa periods
• Meio Saitō (oil painting)
• Tokihiro Satō (inter-media arts)
• Michael W. Schneider (printmaking)
• Takashi Shimizu (violin)
• Kanzan Shimomura
• Masaaki Suzuki (early music)
• Ritsuko Taho (inter-media arts)
• Toru Takahashi (education)
• Kōun Takamura
• Kenji Watanabe (piano)
• Yoshiaki Watanabe (inter-media arts)
• Koji Yamamoto (industrial arts)

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