Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku

Entrance gate

Ueno main campus, in Taitō -ku, Tōkyō

The Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku ( Japanese 東京 藝術 大学 , German "University of the Arts Tokyo", English Tokyo University of the Arts ), Tōkyō Geidai for short , is an art college founded in Tokyo in 1887 . It is one of the most renowned training centers for musicians and artists in Japan. The president is Kazuki Sawa.

The university has four campuses :

• Ueno-Campus ( 上 野 キ ャ ン パ ス ) in Taitō -ku, Tōkyō Prefecture; Main campus
• Toride Campus ( 取 手 キ ャ ン パ ス ) in Toride , Ibaraki Prefecture
• Yokohama Campus ( 横 浜 キ ャ ン パ ス ) in Naka-ku , Yokohama
• Senju Campus ( 千 住 キ ャ ン パ ス ) in Adachi -ku, Tōkyō Prefecture

The university has its own art museum on the premises.

history

Today's university was created in 1949 through the merger of the two forerunner institutions, Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō ( 東京 美術 学校 , German "Art Academy Tokyo") and Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō ( 東京 音 楽 学校 , German "Conservatory Tokyo").

In 2008 the university changed its English name from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music to Tokyo University of the Arts .

Well-known professors and students

• Yoshitoshi Abe (* 1971), Japanese artist
• Makoto Aida (* 1965), Japanese artist
• Yuuko Amanuma (* 1955), Japanese conductor and composer
• Shigeru Aoki (1882–1911), Japanese painter
• Kenjirō Azuma (1926-2016), Japanese sculptor
• Johannes Eidt (* 1936), German graphic artist
• Kenji Ekuan (1929–2015), Japanese industrial designer
• Mihoko Fujimura , Japanese opera singer
• Takeji Fujishima (1867–1943), Japanese painter
• Tsuguharu Foujita (1886–1968), Japanese-French painter and graphic artist
• Ingo Günther (* 1957), German media artist
• Taro Hakase
• Meiji Hashimoto (1904-1991), Japanese painter ( Nihonga )
• Masaaki Hayakawa (* 1934), Japanese composer and conductor
• Kaii Higashiyama (1908-1999), Japanese landscape painter ( Nihonga )
• Ikuo Hirayama (1930-2009), Japanese painter ( Nihonga )
• Taku Iwasaki (* 1968), Japanese composer
• Manavu Ikeda (* 1973), Japanese artist
• Gyokushō Kawabata (1842-1913), Japanese painter ( Nihonga )
• Takeshi Kitano (* 1947), Japanese director and actor
• Koide Narushige (1887–1931), Japanese painter
• Tetsurō Komai (1920–1976), Japanese painter and graphic artist
• Takashi Kono (1906–1999), Japanese graphic artist
• Michiko de Kowa-Tanaka (1909–1988), Japanese actress and singer
• Morikazu Kumagai (1880–1977), Japanese painter
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa (* 1955), Japanese director
• Paul Meisen (* 1933), German flautist
• Takashi Murakami (* 1962), Japanese artist
• Esther Nyffenegger (* 1921), Swiss cellist, from 1983 to 1986 professor at the Imperial Music Academy
• Norio Ōga (1930–2011), Japanese, studied music, later businessman (Sony)
• Shikanosuke Oka (1898–1978), Japanese painter
• Kenzo Okada (1902–1982), Japanese painter
• Saburōsuke Okada (1869-1939), Japanese painter
• Tarō Okamoto (1911–1996), Japanese artist
• Teiichi Okano (1878–1941), Japanese composer, music teacher and organist
• Kakuzō Okakura (1862-1913), Japanese art critic and teacher
• Hiroshi Ōnishi (1961–2011), Japanese painter and university professor
• Yūzō Saeki (1898–1928), Japanese painter
• Ryuichi Sakamoto (* 1952), Japanese composer
• Katsuzō Satomi (1895–1981), Japanese painter
• Michael Schneider (* 1967), Austrian artist
• Yasushi Sugiyama (1909-1993), Japanese painter ( Nihonga )
• Masaaki Suzuki (* 1954), Japanese conductor
• Yoshi Takahashi (1943–1998), Japanese painter and graphic artist
• Rentarō Taki (1879–1903), Japanese composer
• Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927-2001), Japanese film director
• Hiroshi Wakasugi (1935–2009), Japanese conductor
• Kazuki Yamada (* 1979), Japanese conductor
• Akira Yamaguchi (* 1969), Japanese artist
• Kanae Yamamoto (1882–1946), Japanese painter
• Sōtarō Yasui (1888–1955), Japanese painter
• Taikan Yokoyama (1868–1958), Japanese painter
• Tetsugorō Yorozu (1885–1927), Japanese painter
• Yun Sim-deok (1897–1926), Korean soprano

literature

Tokyo Geidai hyakunen-shi as a special edition The Geijutsu Shincho Volume 38, Issue 10 (1987)

Web links

Commons : Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Japanese, English)
• Art Museum (Japanese, English)
• photos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.geidai.ac.jp/english/about/a-brief-history-of-the-university
2. ↑ https://www.geidai.ac.jp/english/about/presidents-foreword
3. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000. ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , pp. 73 and 332–334.

Coordinates: 35 ° 43 ′ 10 ″  N , 139 ° 46 ′ 20 ″  E