TOKYO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS AND MUSIC

or is one of the oldest and most prestigious art schools in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, and Yokohama, Kanagawa. The university owns two halls of residence; one (for Japanese students) in Nerima, Tokyo, and the other (for overseas students) in Matsudo, Chiba.
As far as the acceptance rate is concerned, Geidai is the most competitive university every year in Japan, so that a large number of applicants retake the entrance exam repeatedly year after year. Even applicants accepted by other universities tend not to take up such offers, because the university is the optimum route for students wanting to be artists. Thus, Geidai is sometimes called "the most difficult university" or "The art university equivalent of University of Tokyo" (the highest-ranking university in Japan). However, the rate of employment after the graduation is low as art is not practical for job hunting in Japan. As a result, many students go on to graduate school in the same area, and become professors, teachers, researchers, orchestral players or artists. However, some students are hired by large companies, such as Toyota (design section), Dentsu (Japan's largest advertising agency), central TV stations (Fuji Television, TBS, etc) and Louis Vuitton.

Contents

History

Departments/Major

Department of Fine Arts

Department of Music

Organization

Students

Fine Arts

Music

Fee

Access

Famous alumni

Artists

Musicians

Others

Faculty

The department of Fine Arts

The department of Music

External links

History

The university was formed by the merger in 1949 of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko) and the Tokyo Music School (Tokyo Ongaku Gakko; both founded 1887). Originally male-only, in 1946 the schools began to admit women. The graduate school opened in 1963, and in 1977 began offering doctoral degrees. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1 2004, the school became known as the Dokuritsu Zaidan Hojin Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku.
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 (Australia), the Korean National University of Arts, and the China Academy of Art.

Departments/Major

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

★ Film and New Media (Graduate school only)

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 Environmental

Organization

★ 'University Art Museum'

★ 'University Library'

★ 'University Orchestra'

★ 'University Opera'

★ Administration Office

★ Art Media Center

★ Center for Music Reserch

★ Geidai Art Plaza

★ Health Care Survice Center

★ Institute of Ancient Art Reserch

★ Oversea Student Center

★ Photography Center

★ Performing Arts Center

★ Senior High School of Music

★ 'Sogakudo Concert Hall'

★ Training Center for Foreign Language and Diction

Students

Fine Arts

★ Undergraduate: 1,041 (Overseas Students: 3 (0.2%))

★ Graduate: 494 (Overseas Students: 37 (7.4%))

★ Post-graduate: 137 (Overseas Students: 26 (19%))

Music

★ Undergraduate: 1,050 (Overseas Students: 2 (0.1%))

★ Graduate: 309 (Oversea Students: 7 (2.2%))

★ Post-graduate: 113 (Oversea Students: 7 (6.1%))

★ Overseas Students according to nationality: South Korea(41), China(23), USA(11), UK(3), France(3), Belgium(2).

Fee

★ Entrance Fee: ￥282,000 (US$2,300)

★ Academic Fee: ￥535,800 (US$4,400)

★ Limited scholarships are available from the Ministry of Education. Scholarships are available for overseas students.

★ Dormitories are available for all students who want. One, primarily for Japanese Students, is in Shakujii, Nerima Ward. The other, designed for overseas students, is in Matsudo, Chiba prefecture. The latter provides 36 single rooms, 6 rooms for couples and 2 family rooms.

Access

★ Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music: 12-8 Ueno-Park, Taito Ward, Tokyo, JAPAN 110-8714

★ Call: +81(0)50-5525-2013

Famous alumni

Artists

★ Gyokudo Kawai (Japanese Painter) ★ Hiroshi Teshigahara (Film Director) ★ Ikuo Hirayama (Japanese painter) ★ Isson Tanaka (Japanese Painter) ★ Kaii Higashiyama (Japanese Painter) ★ Kakuzo Okakura (essayist) ★ Kanzan Shimomura (Japanese Painter) ★ Kotaro Takamura (Sculptor / poet) ★ Kousonjin Nagakura (Japanese Painter) ★ Narashige Koide (Oil Painter) ★ Noriyuki Tanaka (Art Director) ★ Ryouhei Koiso (Oil Painter) ★ Ryuzaburo Umehara (Japanese painter)

★ Shigeo Fukuda (Graphic Designer) ★ Shunso Hishida (Japanese Painter) ★ Taikan Yokoyama (Japanese Painter) ★ Takashi Murakami (Contemporary Artist) ★ Taikan Yokoyama (Japanese Painter) ★ Taro Okamoto (Artist) ★ To'ichi Kato (Japanese Painter) ★ Tsuguharu Foujita (Oil Painter / Sculptor) ★ Yasuji Mori (Animator) ★ Yasushi Sugiyama (Japanese Painter) ★ Yoichi Kotabe (Animator) ★ Yoshihiko Wada (Oil Painter) ★ Yoshitoshi Abe (Cartoonist / Illustrator) ★ Yukihiko Yasuda (Japanese Painter)

Musicians

★ Akio Yashiro (Composer) ★ Hajime Mizoguchi (Composer) ★ Hiroyuki Iwaki (Conductor) ★ Ichiro Fujiyama (Singer / Composer) ★ Ikuma Dan (Composer) ★ Jo Kondo (Composer) ★ Kosaku Yamada (Composer / Conductor) ★ Kotaro Nakagawa (Composer / Arranger) ★ Makoto Shinohara (Composer) ★ Masaaki Suzuki (Organist / Harpsicordist / Conductor) ★ Masashi Hamauzu (Composer) ★ Michio Mamiya (Composer) ★ Minoru Miki (Composer)

★ Rentaro Taki (Composer) ★ Ryuichi Sakamoto (Composer) ★ Shigeaki Saegusa (Composer) ★ Shin-ichiro Ikebe (Composer) ★ Shinpei Nakayama (Composer) ★ Takashi Kako (Composer) ★ Taku Iwasaki (Composer) ★ Taro Hakase (Violinist / Composer) ★ Toshihiko Sahashi (Composer) ★ Toshiro Mayuzumi (Composer) ★ Yoshi Takahashi ★ Yasushi Akutagawa (Composer) ★ Yuzo Toyama (Conductor / Composer)

Others

★ Hiroshi Masuoka (Voice Actor)

★ Norio Ohga (Former President of SONY / Conductor)

★ Rin' (Pop-singer group)

★ Yusuke Iseya (Model / Actor)

Faculty

The department of Fine Arts

★ Akio Hashimoto (Industrial Arts) ★ Arisumi Mitamura (Industrial Arts) ★ Atsushi Kitagawara (Architecture) ★ Atsushi Saito (Design) ★ Chinami Nakajima (Design) ★ Fumio Shimada (Industrial Arts) ★ Haruya Kudo (Oil Painting) ★ Hidehiko Omata (Sculpture) ★ Hideya Kawakita (Design) ★ Hirotoshi Sakaguchi (Oil Painting) ★ Hiroshi Hongo (Formative Arts) ★ Hiroshi Matsuo (Aesthetics) ★ Hiroshi Onishi (Oil Painting) ★ Hotaro Koyama (Oil Painting)

★ Ichiro Iino (Industrial Arts) ★ Ichiro Sato (Oil Painting) ★ Izuru Seki (Japanese Painting) ★ Junichi Takeuchi (Aesthetics) ★ Kazue Kobata (Inter-media Arts) ★ Kazuho Ueda (Japanese Painting) ★ Kazutoshi Katayama (Architecture) ★ Kazuyuki Tanaka (Industrial Arts) ★ Kezo Horikoshi (Film) ★ Kiichiro Masumura (Industrial Arts) ★ Kijo Rokkaku (Architecture) ★ Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Film) ★ Koichi Koshi (Aesthetics) ★ Koichi Sasaki (Oil Painting) ★ Koji Kinutani (Oil Painting) ★ Koji Yamamoto (Industrial Arts)

★ Masahiko Sato (New Media) ★ Masahito Nakamura (Oil Painting) ★ Masaki Fujihata (New Media) ★ Masamichi Yamamoto (Sculpture) ★ Noboru Takayama (Inter-media Arts) ★ Nobuya Hitsuda (Oil Painting) ★ Norihiko Saito (Japanese Painting) ★ Noriyuki Yamashita (Industrial Arts) ★ Osamu Kido (Sculpture) ★ Ritsuko Taho (Inter-media Arts) ★ Satoru Kitago (Sculpture) ★ Seichi Onobori (Design) ★ Seji Ikeda (Design) ★ Seji Yoshimura (Japanese Painting) ★ Shinichi Hara (Sculpture) ★ Shoichi Minoura (Design)

★ Takako Hiwa (Education) ★ Takashi Fukai (Sculpture) ★ Takemi Azumaya (Oil Painting) ★ Takeshi Hayashi (Sculpture) ★ Takeshi Kitano (Film) ★ Tetsuro Kurokawa (Architecture) ★ Tetsuya Sakata (Oil Painting) ★ Tokihiro Sato (Photography) ★ Tomoyuki Hasumi (Design) ★ Toru Takahashi (Education) ★ Toshiharu Ito (Inter-media Arts) ★ Toyomichi Kurita (Film) ★ Toyomi Hoshina (Oil Painting) ★ Tsuyoshi Shimana (Design) ★ Yoshiaki Watanabe (Inter-media Arts) ★ Yoshihiro Masuko (Architecture) ★ Yuichi Yonebayashi (Suclpture) ★ Yuji Tezuka (Japanese Painting) ★ Yukio Umehara (Japanese Painting)

The department of Music

★ Akiko Kitagawa (Piano) ★ Akira Neki (Musicology) ★ Akitoshi Edagawa (Musicology) ★ Atsutada Odaka (Composition) ★ Chieko Teratani (Vocal) ★ Chikako Katayama (Musicology) ★ Eichi Inagawa (Tuba) ★ Eizaburo Tsuchida (Musicology) ★ Fumiaki Kono (Cello) ★ Hideaki Narita (Musical Literature)

★ Katsumi Ueda (Piano) ★ Kazo Moriyama (Flute) ★ Kazuki Sawa (Violin) ★ Kazuko Nagai (Vocal) ★ Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (Conducting) ★ Kenjiro Urata (Composition) ★ Kenji Watanabe (Piano) ★ Kiyoshi Okayama (Violin) ★ Manabu Kawai (Composition) ★ Masaaki Suzuki (Early Music)

★ Masakuni Aoyama (Flute) ★ Masateru Ando (Japanese Music) ★ Masayoshi Miura (Japanese Music) ★ Matsuko Fujiwara (Japanese Music) ★ Michiko Kasuya (Piano) ★ Mineo Sugiki (Trumpet) ★ Naoko Ihara (Vocal) ★ Shunichiro Hata (Musicology) ★ Takahiko Nakajima (Musical Literature) ★ Takashi Funayama (Musicology)

★ Takashi Shimizu (Violin) ★ Takashi Takeda (Japanese Music) ★ Takaya Urakawa (Violin) ★ Tami Asakura (Vocal) ★ Tasuku Naono (Vocal) ★ Tatsuhiko Nishioka (Musical Creativity) ★ Teruyuki Noda (Composition) ★ Tetsuhiko Hayama (Musical Literature) ★ Yasushi Sano (Musicology) ★ Yoshio Nagashima (Violin) ★ Yu Kazuno (Piano) ★ Yuji Murai (Flute)

External links

★ Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

★ The University Art Museum - Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music