or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in

Ueno Park is a spacious public park in the Ueno, Tokyo, Ueno district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. The park was established in 1873 on lands formerly belonging to the Buddhist temples in Japan, temple of Kan'ei-ji. Amongst the country's first public parks, i ...

, it also has facilities in

Toride, Ibaraki 260px, Ohori-no-watashi is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 103,717 in 47,545 households and a population density of 1482 persons per km2. The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 34 ...

Yokohama, Kanagawa is the second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo B ...

, Kitasenju and

Adachi, Tokyo is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. It is located to the 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 th ...

. 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 Corporation A is a corporate body (legal entity) established under the provisions of the ''National University Corporation Act'' (2003) for the purpose of establishing a national university in Japan. History As part of promoting the reform of Japanese univ ...

s 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 The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna () is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1688 as a private academy, it is now a public university. The academy is also known for twice rejecting admission to a young Adolf Hitler in 1907 and 1908. ...

and the University of applied Arts, Vienna (Austria), the (France),

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

(USA), the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the firs ...

(UK), the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

and

Queensland College of Art The Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), established as Brisbane School of Arts and formerly known as Queensland College of Art or (QCA) after other name changes, is a specialist visual arts and design college located in South Bank, Br ...

Griffith University Griffith University is a public university, public research university in South East Queensland on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of Australia. The university was founded in 1971, but was not officially opened until 1975. Griffith ...

(Australia), the

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 as the only national university of arts with an aim to ...

, and the

China Central Academy of Fine Arts The Central Academy of Fine Arts or CAFA is an art academy under the direct charge of the Ministry of Education of China. The Manila Bulletin calls the school "China’s most prestigious and renowned art academy." It is considered one of the most ...

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 is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competiti ...

*Oil

Painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

Sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

Craft A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small scale pr ...

Design A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

and

Planning Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. Some researchers regard the evolution of forethought - the cap ...

Aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...

and Art History *Inter-media Arts * Conservation

Department of Music

(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs) *

Composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography * Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include ...

Conducting Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or Choir, choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary d ...

Vocal Music Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but ...

Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

Organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...

String instrument In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners. Musicians play some ...

s *

Wind Wind is the natural movement of atmosphere of Earth, air or other gases relative to a planetary surface, planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heatin ...

and

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

Instruments *

Early Music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750) or Ancient music (before 500 AD). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad Dates of classical ...

Musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

*Traditional

Japanese Music In Japan, music includes a wide array of distinct genres, both traditional and modern.ref> The word for "music" in Japanese language, Japanese is 音楽 (''ongaku''), combining the kanji 音 ''on'' (sound) with the kanji 楽 ''gaku'' (music, comf ...

*Musical Creativity and the Environment

Graduate School of Film and New Media

(Only for graduate students) *Film production *New media *

Animation Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

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

Alumni

Ryuichisakamoto.jpg, Composer

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Music of Japan, Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the Synthesizer, synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his ...

(1952-2023) Hiroshi Teshigahara.jpg, Film director Teshigahara Hiroshi (1927-2001) Artist Carl Randall.jpg, Painter

Carl Randall Carl Randall (born 1975) is a British figurative painter, whose work is based on images of modern Japan and London. Education Randall is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art London (BA Fine Art), the Royal Drawing School London (The Dr ...

(born 1975). Winner of the 2012 Nomura Art Prize at Tokyo Geidai. File:Hashimoto Qunihico.jpg, composer

Kunihiko Hashimoto (September 14, 1904 – May 6, 1949) was a Japanese composer, violinist, conductor, and musical educator. Biography Hashimoto was born in the Hongō district of Tokyo. In 1923, he entered the Tokyo Music School (presently Tokyo National U ...

(1904–1949) Mayuzumi toshirou.jpg, composer

Toshiro Mayuzumi was a Japanese composer. He was known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sources ranging from jazz to Balinese music, and he wa ...

(1929–1997) Iwaki and yamamoto.JPG, conductor

Hiroyuki Iwaki (6 September 193213 June 2006) was a Japanese conductor and percussionist. Biography Iwaki was born in Tokyo in 1932. Shortly after he entered an elementary school, he moved to Kyoto due to his father's transferral. He came to play the xylop ...

(left) and Naozumi Yamamoto(right)

Artists

* Erina Matsui (painter) * Aiko Miyanaga (sculptor) *

Firoz Mahmud Firoz Mahmud () (born September 5, 1974 in Khulna, Bangladesh) is a Bangladeshi visual artist based in Japan. Mahmud was the first Bangladeshi fellow artist in research at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. His work has been exhibit ...

(Bangladeshi contemporary Artist / painter) *

Eric Van Hove Éric Van Hove (born 1975 in Guelma, Algeria) is a Cameroon-raised Belgian metamodern conceptual artist. He lives and works between Brussels and Marrakech. He is the grandson of Louis Van Hove, co-founder and CEO of the Structures Group, the l ...

(Belgian artist) *

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between High art, high and low arts. His wo ...

(artist) *

Yoshitoshi Abe , also stylized as yoshitoshi ABe, is a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He first gained fame for his work on the avant-garde anime ''Serial Experiments Lain''. He is also responsible for the concept and charact ...

(cartoonist / illustrator) *

Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill is an Irish artist and academic, crafting as a silversmith and also in copper and Japanese-inspired copper alloys, gold and other metals. He lived in Japan and studied Japanese metal crafts for seven years in the nationa ...

(metalworker and

irogane ''Irogane'' (色金 "coloured metals")Vienna, Bohlau Verlag, 2009: Griesser-Stermscheg & Krist, eds., Metallkonservierung, Metallrestaurierung: Geschichte, Methode, Praxis is the term for a set of Japanese metals – forms of copper (with natural i ...

researcher) * Shin Egashira (Architect/ Sculptor) *

Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese–French painter. After having studied Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita traveled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern art scene of the Montparnasse neighborhood and developed an eclectic style that borrow ...

(oil painter / sculptor) *

Shigeo Fukuda was a sculptor, medallist, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. He is one of Japan's most well-known post-war graphic designers. He is known to be an environmentalist and anti-war, for he designed posters on thes ...

(graphic designer) * Jin Goto (artist / painter -

Nihonga ''Nihonga'' () is a Japanese style of painting that typically uses mineral pigments, and occasionally ink, together with other organic pigments on silk or paper. The term was coined during the Meiji period (1868–1912) to differentiate it from ...

painting) * Fuyuko Matsui (painter) *

Kaii Higashiyama was a Japanese writer and artist particularly renowned for his Nihonga style paintings. As one of the most popular artists in post-war Japan, Higashiyama was awarded the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1956 and the Order of Culture in 1969. Biograph ...

(painter) *

Ikuo Hirayama was a Japanese Nihonga painter and educator. Born in Setoda, Hiroshima, Setoda-chō, Hiroshima Prefecture, he was famous in Japan for Silk Road paintings of dreamy desert landscapes in Iran, Iraq, and China. Biography In 1952, he graduated fro ...

(painter) * Shunsō Hishida (painter) *

Eiko Ishioka was a Japanese art director, costume designer, and graphic designer known for her work in stage, screen, advertising, and print media. Noted for her advertising campaigns for the Japanese boutique chain Parco, she collaborated with sportswear ...

(designer) * Mari Katayama (textile artist and photographer) *

Tōichi Katō was a Japanese painter in the ''Nihonga'' style and board chairman of the Nitten, a significant Japanese art conference. He and his older brother, Eizō Katō, have a museum dedicated to their works in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture. Biography *1916 B ...

(painter) * Gyokudo Kawai (painter) * Kim Su-keun (architect) * Kim Yong-jun (art critic) * Ryōhei Koiso (oil painter) *

Yōichi Kotabe is a Japanese animator and character designer. He has worked on several anime films from the 1960s and 1970s, the ''Super Mario'' video game series, and the ''Pokémon'' series in television and film. He was an employee at Nintendo for two decad ...

(animator) *

Seiji Kurata was a Japanese photographer. Career Kurata was born in Chūō-ku, Tokyo, 1945. He graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968. He taught in secondary school and worked in oils, printmaking, and experimental movies ...

(photographer) * Tetsuya Noda (artist) * Kakuzō Okakura (essayist) *

Tarō Okamoto was a Japanese artist, art theorist, and writer. He is particularly well known for his avant-garde paintings, public sculptures, and murals, his theorization of traditional Japanese culture, and his avant-garde artistic practices. Biography ...

(artist) *

Yukie Osumi Yukie Osumi (born 1945; ) is a Japanese metalsmith. In 2015, she became the first woman in her field to be named a Living National Treasure of Japan. Biography Yukie Osumi was born in Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, in 1945. She studied art hist ...

(metalsmith) *

(painter) * Lee Shih-chiao (painter) *

Kanzan Shimomura was the art-name, pseudonym of a nihonga painter in Meiji era, Meiji through to the early Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Shimomura Seizaburō. Biography Kanzan was born in 1873 in Wakayama, Wakayama, Wakayama city, Wakayama Prefecture ...

(painter)Biography
of Shimomura, "Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures", National Diet Library. Accessed 2010-09-02. *

Yasushi Sugiyama was a Japanese painter of the Shōwa and Heisei eras, who practiced the nihonga style of watercolour painting. Biography Sugiyama was born in 1909 in Asakusa, the eldest son of the owner of a stationery shop. In 1928, Sugiyama enrolled in t ...

(painter) * Shinzaburo Takeda (printmaker / painter) * Masao Tamiya (graphic artist) *

Tadao Tominari was a Japanese nature photographer. Life and career Tominari was born on August 17, 1919, in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Graduating in 1942 from Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō (, now Tokyo University of the Arts), by the 1960s he had begun to spe ...

(photographer) *

Kōtarō Takamura was a Japanese poet and sculptor. Biography Takamura was the eldest son of Japanese sculptor Takamura Kōun. He graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1902, where he studied sculpture and oil painting. He studied in New York, at the ...

(sculptor / poet) *

Hiroshi Teshigahara was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film ''Woman in the Dunes''. He is also known for directing other titles such as '' The Face of Another'' (1966), ''Natsu no Heitai'' ...

(film director) * Eisaku Wada (painter / faculty) *

Yoshihiko Wada is a Japanese painter. Biography * Born in Miyama (present day Kihoku), Kitamura, Mie, Japan in 1940, his father was a cleric. * He graduated from Asahigaoka High School (旭丘高校) in Aichi. * In 1959, he enrolled on the oil painting co ...

(oil painter) *

Tsubasa Yamaguchi is a Japanese manga artist. After she graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, she created two one-shots before launching her first full series, a manga adaptation of ''She and Her Cat''. Following its completion, she launched '' Blue Perio ...

(manga artist) *

Iwao Yamawaki , born Iwao Fujita, was a Japanese photographer and architect who trained at the Bauhaus.Sischy, Ingrid (ed); Yamawaki, Iwao (1999), ''Iwao Yamawaki''. Göttingen: Edition 7L, Steidl. Early life and education Born in Nagasaki, Yamawaki studi ...

(photographer / architect) *

Ryumon Yasuda was a Japanese painter and sculptor. Biography Yasuda was born as Juemon Yasuda in Ryumon Village, Naga District (now Kinokawa City) in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan in 1891. He was inspired to pursue arts after seeing Hishida Shunsō's "The Fal ...

(painter / sculptor) * Taikan Yokoyama (painter)
Yassan
(GPS drawing) * Yukihiko Yasuda (painter) * Yorozu Tetsugoro (painter)

Musicians

Yasushi Akutagawa was a Japanese composer and conductor. His father was Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Biography Akutagawa was born and raised in Tabata, Tokyo, the son of writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Akutagawa studied composition with Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi S ...

(composer) *

Ikuma Dan was a Japanese composer. Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School i ...

(composer) *

Ichiro Fujiyama , also known mononymously as , is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played for 28 seasons. He played the first nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and the next 12 years w ...

(singer / composer) *

Akiko Futaba was a Japanese popular music (''ryūkōka'') singer. As of the end of World War II, she was one of the most popular female singers in Japan, competing with Hamako Watanabe and Noriko Awaya. In addition, she took part in the ''Kōhaku Uta Gasse ...

(singer) * Mihoko Fujimura (operatic mezzo-soprano) *

(composer) *

Shiro Hamaguchi Shiro, Shirō, Shirow or Shirou may refer to: People *, leader of the Shimabara Rebellion *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese football player 1923–1925 *, Japanese composer *, Japanese weightlifter *, Japanese microbiologist and lieutenant general * ...

(composer / arranger) *

Masashi Hamauzu is a Japanese composer, pianist, and lyricist. Hamauzu, who was employed at Square Enix from 1996 to 2010, was best known during that time for his work on the ''Final Fantasy'' and ''SaGa'' video game series. Born into a musical family in German ...

(composer) *

Hikaru Hayashi was a Japanese composer, pianist and Conducting, conductor. Hayashi is considered to be one of the most renowned and accomplished Japanese composers of the postwar Japan, postwar period. In particular, Hayashi was noted for his choral suite ''Sc ...

(composer) * Ryohei Hirose (composer) * Shin-ichiro Ikebe (composer) *

(conductor) *

Taku Iwasaki is a Japanese composer and arranger. His hometown is Tokyo, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japa ...

(composer) * Hiroshi Kajiwara (pianist) *

Ken'ichiro Kobayashi is a Japanese conductor and composer. In Japan he is known among his fans as “Kobaken.” Biography Born in Iwaki, Fukushima, Kobayashi's father was a high school music teacher, and mother was a primary school teacher. Kobayashi started co ...

(conductor) *

Jo Kondo Jo, jo, JO, or J.O. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Jo'' (film), a 1972 French comedy * ''Jo'' (TV series), a French TV series *"Jo", a song by Goldfrapp from ''Tales of Us'' *"Jo", a song by Mr. Oizo from '' Lambs Anger'' * Jo a ficti ...

(composer) *

Hayato Matsuo is a Japanese music composer and orchestrator who primarily does work in video games and anime. He has worked on games such as '' Front Mission 3'', ''Final Fantasy XII'', the '' Shenmue'' series, '' Magic Knight Rayearth'', and '' Hellsing Ulti ...

(composer) *

Minoru Miki Minoru Miki (, 16 March 19308 December 2011) was a Japanese composer and Artistic director. He was known for promoting Japanese, Chinese and Korean traditional instruments as well as some of their performers. In his catalogue these tradition ...

(composer) *

Hajime Mizoguchi is a Japanese cellist and composer. Mizoguchi started playing piano at the age of 3, and the cello at the age of 11. From 1978–1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello. In 1986, he ...

(composer) * Makoto Moroi (composer) *

Kōtarō Nakagawa is a Japanese composer and arranger. He is noted for composing the soundtracks for several anime series, including the Gorō Taniguchi-directed productions '' s-CRY-ed'', '' Planetes'', '' Gun Sword'', and ''Code Geass''. He provided the music f ...

(composer / arranger) * Akira Nishimura (composer) *

Shigeaki Saegusa Shigeaki Saegusa (, formerly ; ''Saegusa Shigeaki''; born July 8, 1942) is a Japanese composer. Career Saegusa is best known for his opera version ''Chushingura (opera), Chushingura'' of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/:ja ...

(composer) *

Toshihiko Sahashi is a Japanese composer. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1986. Sahashi has composed music for various anime series (including OVAs, films, and drama CDs), video games, films, dramas, and musicals. His work ...

(composer) *

Kazue Sawai is a Japanese ''Koto (musical instrument), koto'' player noted for her performance of contemporary classical music and free improvisation. Early life Sawai was born in Kyoto in 1941, and began studying koto, at the age of eight, with Michio Miya ...

(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 acclaim for his compositions. Early life Born in Aichi Prefecture, Sawai graduated from the Tokyo National University of F ...

(koto player and composer) * Tatsuo Sasaki (Timpani/marimba player) *

Makoto Shinohara was a Japanese composer. Biography Born in Osaka, Japan, Shinohara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, piano with , and conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Wöss. Fr ...

(composer) *

Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist, conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for whi ...

(organist / harpsichordist / conductor) *

Motoaki Takenouchi is a Japanese composer, most recognized for his video game soundtracks during the 1990s, particularly for the '' Shining'' series of games. He has worked for companies such as Sega, Enix, Climax Entertainment, and Game Arts. Takenouchi studied mu ...

(composer) * Yuzo Toyama (composer / conductor) *

Rentarō Taki was a Japanese pianist and composer of the Meiji era. Taki was born in Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 m ...

(composer) * Chiyuki Urano (baritone) * Kosaku Yamada (composer / conductor) *

Kazuo Yamada was a Japanese conductor and composer. Birthday Kazuo Yamada was born in Tokyo in 1912. He began studies at Gakushuin and then Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly the Tokyo Music School). Studied piano with Leo Sirota and Paul Weingarten ...

(conductor) *

Akio Yashiro was a Japanese composer. Biography He was born in Tokyo. Yashiro entered the Tokyo Music School (presently the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 1945, where he studied composition under Saburo Moroi, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Tom ...

(composer) *

Akeo Watanabe was a Japanese symphonic conductor, known for his recordings of the works of Jean Sibelius. Watanabe was born in 1919 to a Japanese father and Finnish mother. He studied violin and conducted at the Tokyo Music School and the Juilliard School of ...

(conductor) *

Diramore Diramore (; born Maung Maung Zaw Htet; born 4 June 1974) is a Myanmar musician and pro-rector (training) at the National University of Arts and Culture, Mandalay. His stage name "Diramore" was given by his father and eldest brother before his ...

(composer / music director)

Others

* Kenji Ekuan (industrial designer) *

Eiji Aonuma is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer at Nintendo. He is a senior officer within their Nintendo EPD division and serves as the producer of the ''The Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda'' franchise. Career Aonuma was born as on ...

(video game designer) * Li Zuixiong (conservation scientist) *

Norio Ohga , also spelled Norio Oga, was a Japanese businessperson who was the president and chairman of Sony Corporation. He is credited with spurring the development of the compact disc (CD) as a commercially viable audio format. Biography Early career ...

(former president of Sony / singer / conductor) *

Rin' Rin' is an all-female Japanese pop group which combines traditional Japanese musical instruments and style with elements of modern pop and rock music. History The band is a female trio of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music alumni ...

(pop group)

Faculty members

* Masaki Fujihata (new media) * (inter-media arts) *

Osamu Kido was a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He participated in the foundation of New Japan of 1972 and the foundation of Universal Wrestling Federation (Japan), Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) in 19 ...

(sculpture) * Atsushi Kitagawara (architecture) *

Takeshi Kitano , also known as in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host. During hi ...

(film) *

Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi is a Japanese conductor and composer. In Japan he is known among his fans as “Kobaken.” Biography Born in Iwaki, Fukushima, Kobayashi's father was a high school music teacher, and mother was a primary school teacher. Kobayashi started c ...

(conducting) *

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic, author, actor, and a former professor at Tokyo University of the Arts (2005-2023). Noted for his psychological films that often focus on ambiguous narratives and on their characters' i ...

(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 Takashi Shimizu (清水崇 ''Shimizu Takashi'', born 27 July 1972) is a Japanese people, Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for being the creator of the Ju-On, ''Ju-On'' franchise, and directing four of its films, internationally, in both Jap ...

(violin) *

(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)

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Department of Music

Graduate School of Film and New Media

Graduate School of Global Arts

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