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4 unusual facts about Shinkichi Tajiri


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Castle Scheres was built about 1860 and is currently inhabited by the Japanese artist Shinkichi Tajiri.

Shinkichi Tajiri

1969 and 1970 Shinkichi took pictures of every part of the Berlin Wall.

In 1940, Tajiri received his first lessons in sculpture from Donal Hord.

Shinkichi Tajiri (Los Angeles, December 7, 1923 – Baarlo, Netherlands, March 15, 2009) was a Dutch-American sculptor of Japanese ancestry (a nisei or second generation emigrant from Japan).



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