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7 unusual facts about Tokyo University of the Arts


Basil Athanasiadis

Basil Athanasiadis (Greek: Βασίλης Αθανασιάδης, born 1970 in Greece) is a Greek composer and a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow currently based in Japan at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

Chihiro Iwasaki

When she was fourteen years old, she began to learn drawing and oil painting under Saburosuke Okada, an artist and professor of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (later Tokyo University of the Arts).

Ernest Fenollosa

After eight years at the University, he helped found the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and the Tokyo Imperial Museum, and subsequently acted as its director in 1888.

Jo Kondo

Kondo studied composition from 1968 to 1972 with Yoshio Hasegawa and Hiroaki Minami at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Norio Ohga

As a young man, Ohga aspired to be a professional opera singer, and went on to read at the prestigious Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, graduating in 1953.

Pehr Henrik Nordgren

At the Tokyo University of the Arts, he supplemented his composition studies from 1970 to 1973 with Yoshio Hasegawa and became acquainted with traditional Japanese music, which soon became an influence in his works.

Yu Kosuge

At the age of four, she entered Tokyo University of the Arts, having been selected under a programme aimed at providing specialist education to gifted children.


Akiya Takahashi

For his Master’s degree at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Takahashi majored in 19th century French Art History, with a particular focus on Eugène Delacroix and Édouard Manet.


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