Collaborating Artists

Born in 1895. Aspiring for a new sense of Japanese-style painting, created originality that had not been there in the past Japanese-style paintings in color and composition. Based on the belief of "All things are Buddha", painted familiar things and was at the highest peak of contemporary female painters. Received the Order of Culture in 1980. Passed away in 2000.

His major works are "Domu", "AKIRA", etc. He has given a great influence on the cartoon world after 1980s, through his style, which had not existed in previous Japanese cartoons such as drawing precisely with uniform lines without relying on pen touch and configuring screens with complicated perspective drawings. He is working on the video also, by directing feature animation works "AKIRA", "MEMORIES", "STEAMBOY" and so on by himself.

Born in Kumamoto city in 1943, and spent his childhood in Omuta city, Fukuoka prefecture. After studying at Tokyo University of the Arts and completing graduate school of the university, presented his works at exhibitions including the Dokuritsu Exhibition, and attracted attentions in the painter's society. Although he had drawn fantastic works called "Mari series" that had gotten inspired by memories of his boyhood, he started working on "Girls series", on which his two daughters were modeled, when he moved to France with his family in 1979. Since then, while continuing to draw works with the themes of growing daughters and families as his life work, he is working on landscape paintings also as a new theme in recent years.
Member of the Japan Art Academy, Member of the Dokuritsu Exhibition, and former Dean of Faculty of Art and Communication, Tama Art University.