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is a Japanese contemporary artist.
Akira Yamaguchi at Mizuma Art Gallery
1969 births Living people Artists from Tokyo {{Japan-painter-stub
Biography
Born in Tokyo, he grew up in the city of Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture. He received his B.A. in oil painting (1994) and M.A. in oil painting (1996) from theTokyo University of the Arts
or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter ...
. Yamaguchi designed the cover art for the album V by the nu-jazz
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music duo United Future Organization
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and illustrated the book Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene
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He lives and works in Tokyo. His artwork has been exhibited worldwide. He is represented by .
He appeared in the 2003 film '' Lost in Translation''. Yamaguchi illustrated Hiroyuki Itsuki's serialized novel about the life of Shinran
''Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture'' by Esben Andreasen, pp. 13, 14, 15, 17. University of Hawaiʻi Press 1998, . was a Japanese Buddhist monk, who was born in Hino (now a part of Fushimi, Kyoto) at the turbulent clos ...
, with the illustrations later published in their own standalone collection.
Style
Yamaguchi's painting style combines contemporary oil painting techniques with the traditional Japanese composition style known as ''Yamato-e
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''. He has also produced a number of drawings and ''ukiyo-e
is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock printing, woodblock prints and Nikuhitsu-ga, paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes ...
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See also
*List of Japanese artists
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References
External links
Akira Yamaguchi at Mizuma Art Gallery
1969 births Living people Artists from Tokyo {{Japan-painter-stub