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, founded in 1962 with roots going back to 1929. It is known as one of the leading art universities in Japan.

History

In October 1929, was founded. In December 1948, it became , and in April 1962, it was renamed Musashino Art University. From its start, the university taught fine art and industrial design; it later added architecture, fashion, and other fields. MAU has exchange agreements with universities in other countries. It has a graduate school that awards master's degrees and doctorates.

People associated with Musashino Art University

Alumni

* Michiyo Akaishi, manga artist *

Ume Aoki is a Japanese Mangaka, manga artist, illustrator and dōjin artist from Hyōgo Prefecture. She officially romanizes her name as aokiume. She illustrates under the pennames apricot+ for many of her dōjinshi, and for the visual novel ''Sanarar ...

, manga artist * Kei Aoyama, manga artist *

Shusaku Arakawa was a Japanese conceptual artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with the writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades in which they collaborated on a diverse range of visual mediums, including: ...

, artist and designer * Tetsuo Araki, print artist * Taku Aramasa, photographerNiwa Harumi (), "Aramasa Taku", ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.28. In Japanese only, despite the English-language alternative title of the book. *

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, sculptor and installation artist *

Hiroki Endo is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Musashino Art University. He is most known for his science-fiction series '' Eden: It's an Endless World!'', which has been translated into English by Dark Horse A dark horse is a previously lesse ...

, manga artist *

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, illustrator, writer, and actor *

Kenya Hara is a Japanese graphic designer, curator and writer. He is a graduate of Musashino Art University. Hara is employed by Musashino Art University as professor, and taught Communication Design and Design Theory in Science on Design Faculty since Ap ...

, graphic designer and art director of

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Katsuhito Ishii is a Japanese film director best known for directing '' The Taste of Tea'' (2004), ''Funky Forest'' (2005), and ''Smuggler'' (2011). Career After graduating from Musashino Art University, Ishii got a job at Tohokushinsha Film and began direc ...

, film director * Koji Ishikawa, illustrator *

Paru Itagaki is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series ''Beastars'', for which she has won the 2018 Manga Taishō, a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a Kodansha Manga Award, and a Japan Media Arts Festival Award. She is ...

, manga artist * Satoshi Itō (Project Itoh), science fiction writer *

Kazuo Kamimura was a Japanese manga artist, best known as the illustrator of '' Lady Snowblood'', which was adapted into film in 1973. Hitoshi Iwaaki, a manga artist was his assistant. Kamimura died at age 45 of a pharynx tumor A neoplasm () is a type o ...

, manga artist * Miyuki Kobayashi, novelist and scenario writer for manga *

Satoshi Kon was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaido and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art Univer ...

, anime director and manga artist *

Fusako Kuramochi is a Japanese manga artist. While still in high school, she made her professional debut with , published in the Autumn 1972 issue of ''Bessatsu Margaret''. She won the magazine's gold medal for amateur manga artists. Afterwards, Kuramochi stud ...

, manga artist *

Tomoki Kyoda (born 1970) is a Japanese animation director and animator born in Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, Japan. Formerly a graphic designer, he nurtured the dream of becoming an animator from childhood. After doing various works supervising drawing continui ...

, anime director *

Junko Mori (born 1974) is a Japanese artist based in Wales. Working primarily in metalwork sculpture, Mori’s works are aggregate pieces usually connected thematically and visually to her observations of living matter, particularly plants. Her choice ...

, artist and metalworker *

Ryū Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, and filmmaker. His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusionment, drug use, surrealism, murder, and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan. His best known novels are ''Al ...

, novelist and filmmaker *

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, automobile designer for BMW * Yurie Nagashima, photographer * Rei Naito, artist *

Tatzu Nishi is a Japanese site specific installation artist. Nishi is known for his art interventions, which often transform historical monuments by surrounding a statue or a small element of a building with domestic space. In some cases the sculptures al ...

, installation artist *

Shinro Ohtake is a Japanese artist who was born in Tokyo and lives in Uwajima, Japan. He paints, creates installations and designs record covers and book covers. He has published dozens of books, such as a dream diary, a picture book, essays and art books. ...

, painter *

Rieko Saibara is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1988 with , serialized in ''Weekly Young Sunday''. In 1989, she graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University. Saibara has received numer ...

, manga artist * Shiori Satō, idol and member of

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Shūhō Satō is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work '' Say Hello to Black Jack''. His assistants have included his wife, manga artist Tomomi Satō, as well as Masasumi Kakizaki (one year before his debut), ...

, manga artist *

Soji Shimada is a Japanese mystery writer. Born in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Biography Soji Shimada graduated from Seishikan High School in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and later Musashino Art University as a Commercial arts d ...

, mystery novelist *

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, designer of

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* Ryoko Suzuki, contemporary artist *

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, game designer *

Yellow Tanabe is a Japanese manga artist. She was an assistant for Mitsuru Adachi and Makoto Raiku and made her debut in 2002 with the short story ''Lost Princess''. She is best known for the manga series '' Kekkaishi'', which has been adapted as an anime t ...

, manga artist *

Yukinori Yanagi is a contemporary Japanese artist. Yukinori Yanagi is a contemporary Japanese artist who has addressed themes of national and transnational sovereignty, globalization and borders, as well as Japan’s imperial history and nationalism. He is co ...

, contemporary artist *

Akimi Yoshida is a Japanese manga artist and a graduate of Musashino Art University. She made her professional debut in 1977 with the short story , published in '' Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' magazine. Yoshida is best known for the crime thriller series '' Bana ...

, manga artist

Teachers

* Taku Aramasa, photographer *

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, filmmaker, art director, and photographer * Yurie Nagashima, photographer *

Yoshiharu Sekino is a Japanese surgeon, explorer, travel writer, photographer and anthropologist. Biography Sekino was born in 1949 in Tokyo. While a student at Hitotsubashi University, he cofounded and participated in a university team that descended the entire ...

, cultural anthropologistProfile of Sekino
''Musashino Art University'' . . Accessed 13 March 2014.

Undifferentiated

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 c ...

, painter

References

External links

Official website

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