Tokyo University of the Arts


Tokyo University of the Arts or Tokyogeidai 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 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, the École des Beaux-Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Academy of Music, the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Departments

Department of Fine Arts

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

    Department of Music

  • 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

  • Film production
  • New media
  • Animation

    Graduate School of Global Arts

  • Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices

    Organization

  • 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

Artists

  • Erina Matsui
  • Aiko Miyanaga
  • Firoz Mahmud
  • Eric Van Hove
  • Takashi Murakami
  • Yoshitoshi Abe
  • Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill
  • Shin Egashira
  • Tsuguharu Foujita
  • Shigeo Fukuda
  • Jin Goto
  • Fuyuko Matsui
  • Kaii Higashiyama
  • Ikuo Hirayama
  • Shunsō Hishida
  • Eiko Ishioka
  • Mari Katayama
  • Tōichi Katō
  • Gyokudo Kawai
  • Kim Su-keun
  • Kim Yong-jun
  • Ryōhei Koiso
  • Yōichi Kotabe
  • Seiji Kurata
  • Tetsuya Noda
  • Kakuzō Okakura
  • Tarō Okamoto
  • Yukie Osumi
  • Carl Randall
  • Lee Shih-chiao
  • Kanzan Shimomura
  • Yasushi Sugiyama
  • Shinzaburo Takeda
  • Masao Tamiya
  • Tadao Tominari
  • Kōtarō Takamura
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara
  • Eisaku Wada
  • Yoshihiko Wada
  • Tsubasa Yamaguchi
  • Iwao Yamawaki
  • Ryumon Yasuda
  • Taikan Yokoyama
  • Yukihiko Yasuda
  • Yorozu Tetsugoro

    Musicians

  • Yasushi Akutagawa
  • Ikuma Dan
  • Ichiro Fujiyama
  • Akiko Futaba
  • Mihoko Fujimura
  • Kunihiko Hashimoto
  • Shiro Hamaguchi
  • Masashi Hamauzu
  • Hikaru Hayashi
  • Ryohei Hirose
  • Shin-ichiro Ikebe
  • Hiroyuki Iwaki
  • Taku Iwasaki
  • Hiroshi Kajiwara
  • Ken'ichiro Kobayashi
  • Jo Kondo
  • Hayato Matsuo
  • Toshiro Mayuzumi
  • Minoru Miki
  • Hajime Mizoguchi
  • Makoto Moroi
  • Kōtarō Nakagawa
  • Akira Nishimura
  • Shigeaki Saegusa
  • Toshihiko Sahashi
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Kazue Sawai
  • Tadao Sawai
  • Tatsuo Sasaki
  • Makoto Shinohara
  • Masaaki Suzuki
  • Motoaki Takenouchi
  • Yuzo Toyama
  • Rentarō Taki
  • Chiyuki Urano
  • Kosaku Yamada
  • Kazuo Yamada
  • Akio Yashiro
  • Akeo Watanabe
  • Diramore

    Others

  • Kenji Ekuan
  • Eiji Aonuma
  • Li Zuixiong
  • Norio Ohga
  • Rin'

    Faculty members

  • Masaki Fujihata
  • Osamu Kido
  • Atsushi Kitagawara
  • Takeshi Kitano
  • Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi
  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Toyomichi Kurita
  • Joun Ōshima, noted Japanese sculptor in the Meiji/Taisho/Showa periods
  • Meio Saitō
  • Tokihiro Satō
  • Michael W. Schneider
  • Takashi Shimizu
  • Kanzan Shimomura
  • Masaaki Suzuki
  • Ritsuko Taho
  • Toru Takahashi
  • Kōun Takamura
  • Kenji Watanabe
  • Yoshiaki Watanabe
  • Koji Yamamoto