or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter-media, sound, music composition, traditional instruments, art curation and global arts.
History Under the establishment of the National School Establishment Law, the university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the and the , 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 (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
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 Game and Interactive Arts
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
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)Steven Heller, "Shigeo Fukuda, Graphic Designer, Dies at 76", The New York Times, 2 December 2007. Accessed 2010-08-31. Jin Goto (artist / painter - Nihonga painting) Fuyuko Matsui (painter) Kaii Higashiyama (painter) Ikuo Hirayama (painter) Shunsō Hishida (painter)Short biography of Hishida, Iida City Museum. Accessed 2010-09-01. 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)Kōtarō Iizawa, Tōkyō shashin () / Tokyo Photography (Tokyo: Inax, 1995; ), p.260; Sanjūroku fotogurafāzu: Kimura Ihei Shashinshō no sanjūnen () (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun, 2005; ), p.11). Tetsuya Noda (artist) Kakuzō Okakura (essayist) Tarō Okamoto (artist) Yukie Osumi (metalsmith) Carl Randall (painter) Lee Shih-chiao (painter) Kanzan Shimomura (painter)Biography of Shimomura, "Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures", National Diet Library. Accessed 2010-09-02. Yasushi Sugiyama (painter) Shinzaburo Takeda (printmaker / painter) Masao Tamiya (graphic artist) Tadao Tominari (photographer)Kazuko Sekiji (), "Tominari Tadao", in Nihon shashinka jiten () / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.223. Kōtarō Takamura (sculptor / poet) Hiroshi Teshigahara (film director)Profile of Teshigahara at the image library of Musashino University of the Arts. Accessed 2010-09-03. Eisaku Wada (painter / faculty)Tokyo University of Arts Calendar · 2014 Collection of Modern masterpiece paintings (東京藝術大学カレンダー・2014 所蔵名品絵画 近代編), Tokyo University of Arts. Accessed 2018-08-31. Tsubasa Yamaguchi (manga artist) Iwao Yamawaki (photographer / architect) Ryumon Yasuda (painter / sculptor) Taikan Yokoyama (painter)Biography of Yokoyama, "Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures", National Diet Library. Accessed 2010-09-02. Yassan (GPS drawing) Yukihiko Yasuda (painter) Yorozu Tetsugoro (painter) Shotaro Sanada (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)Biography of Hirose, The International Shakuhachi Society. Accessed 2010-09-02. Shin-ichiro Ikebe (composer) Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor)"Japanese conductor Hiroyuki Iwaki dies at 73", USA Today, 13 June 2006. Accessed 2010-09-02. Taku Iwasaki (composer) Hiroshi Kajiwara (pianist) Ken'ichiro Kobayashi (conductor) Jo Kondo (composer)Biography of Kondō, University of York Press. Accessed 2010-09-02. 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)Profile of Sawai, cdjournal.com. Accessed 2010-09-02. Tatsuo Sasaki (Timpani/marimba player) Makoto Shinohara (composer) Masaaki Suzuki (organist / harpsichordist / conductor)Biography of Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan. Accessed 2010-09-02. Motoaki Takenouchi (composer) Yuzo Toyama (composer / conductor) Rentarō Taki (composer)Chronology of Taki, Taketa City website. Accessed 2010-09-03. Chiyuki Urano (baritone) Kosaku Yamada (composer / conductor)"Koscak Yamada", Naxos Records. Accessed 2010-09-02. Kazuo Yamada (conductor) Akio Yashiro (composer)Biography of Yashiro, Naxos Records. Accessed 2010-09-02. 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 periodsDepartment of Metal Casting list of early instructors Accessed 2010-12-11 Meio Saitō (oil painting) Tokihiro Satō (inter-media arts)List of faculty members , Department of Inter-Media Arts. Accessed 26 November 2009. Michael W. Schneider (printmaking) Department of Oil Painting Takashi Shimizu (violin) Kanzan Shimomura Masaaki Suzuki (early music) Ritsuko Taho (inter-media arts) Toru Takahashi (education) Kōun TakamuraBiography of Takamura, "Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures", National Diet Library. Accessed 2010-09-02. Kenji Watanabe (piano) Yoshiaki Watanabe (inter-media arts) Koji Yamamoto (industrial arts)
See also List of National Treasures of Japan (ancient documents)
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