Tokyo University of the Arts (??????, T?ky? Geijutsu Daigaku) or Geidai (??) is an art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju, Adachi, Tokyo. The university owns two halls of residence: one (for both Japanese and international students) in Adachi, Tokyo, and the other (for mainly international students) in Matsudo, Chiba.
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History
The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (??????, T?ky? Bijutsu Gakk?) and the Tokyo Music School (??????, T?ky? Ongaku Gakk?), both founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku H?jin T?ky? Geijutsu Daigaku ((????????????). 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 a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
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Departments
Department of Fine Arts
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)
- Japanese Painting
- Oil Painting
- Sculpture
- Craft
- Design
- Architecture and Planning
- Aesthetics and Art History
- Inter-media Arts
- Conservation
Department of Music
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)
- Composition
- Conducting
- Vocal Music
- Piano
- Organ
- String instruments
- Wind and Percussion Instruments
- Early Music
- Musicology
- Traditional Japanese Music
- Musical Creativity and the Environment
Film and new media graduate school
(only for graduate student)
- Film production
- New media
- Animation
Organization
- University Art Museum
- 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
Contact information
- Tokyo University of the Arts
12-8 Ueno Park
Tait?, Tokyo 110-8714, Japan - Telephone: +81(0)50-5525-2013
Alumni
Artists
Musicians
Others
- Kenji Ekuan (industrial designer)
- Eiji Aonuma (video game designer)
- Norio Ohga (former president of Sony / singer / conductor)
- Rin' (pop group)
Faculty members
- Masaki Fujihata (new media)
- Osamu Kido (sculpture)
- Atsushi Kitagawara (architecture)
- Takeshi Kitano (film)
- Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (conducting)
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa (film)
- Toyomichi Kurita (film)
- Joun ?shima (sculpture), noted Japanese sculptor in the Meiji/Taisho/Showa periods
- Tokihiro Sat? (inter-media arts)
- Michael W. Schneider (printmaking)
- Takashi Shimizu (violin)
- Kanzan Shimomura
- Masaaki Suzuki (early music)
- Toru Takahashi (education)
- K?un Takamura
- Kenji Watanabe (piano)
- Yoshiaki Watanabe (inter-media arts)
- Koji Yamamoto (industrial arts)
See also
- List of National Treasures of Japan (ancient documents)
References
External links
- Official website
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