Taishi nakagawa child
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Printmaker and painter Isaku Nakagawa was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1899. He attended the Kyoto School of Fine Arts in 1918, studing under Kikuchi Keigetsu, and the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting, where he graduated in 1921. He cofounded the Kyoto Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai (Kyoto Creative Print Society) in 1929, and was a member of the Nihon Hanga Kyokai (Japanese Print Association) beginning in 1932. In 1928 he traveled to Okinawa with Yanagi Soetsu, head of the Folk Craft Association, and there he was introduced to Okinawan folk arts and crafts, which would become a great source of inspiration to him throughout his career.
As Nakagawa began to make for himself in the Japanese print world, his works were included in a major traveling Japanese print exhibition that took place from 1930 to 1932, going from Japan to Paris to Switzerland to New York. To support himself he worked as a dealer in fine Japanese antique art, and in 1936 he became president of the Oriental Antique Art Study Group. Two years later, he would exhibit his collection of Okinawan ceramics at the Kyoto Nat
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Haruka Nakagawa
Indonesia-based Japanese musical artist
Haruka Nakagawa | |
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Haruka Nakagawa in 2016 | |
| Born | (1992-02-10) 10 February 1992 (age 33) Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Other names | Harugon, Haruka, Harusan, Haruka JKT48, Harugon AKB48 |
| Occupation(s) | Media personality, Consultant producer of JKT48, Idol (formerly), Singer |
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| Father | Shōgo Nakagawa |
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| Also known as | Harugon (はるごん), Haruka (はるか) |
| Genres | J-pop |
| Labels | King Records, Defstar Records, Hits Records, Dentsu Inter Admark Media Group Indonesia |
| Formerly of | AKB48, Watarirouka Hashiritai, JKT48, 4 Gulali |
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Haruka Nakagawa (仲川 遥香, Nakagawa Haruka), is a Japanesemedia personality based in Indonesia. She is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 and its sub-unit Watarirouka Hashiritai, as well as its Indonesian sister group JKT48, all produced by Yasushi Akimoto.[1]
Career
At the age of 14, Haruka Nakagawa participated in an
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Isaku Nakagawa - Woodblock Prints
Isaku Nakagawa created woodblock prints. They are rather rare. The artist had learned woodblock printmaking from Unichi Hiratsuka and is regarded as a sosaku hanga artist. The technical level of his works, often a bit challanged for sosaku hanga artists, is quite high.
Biography: Isaku Nakagawa
Isaku Nakagawa was born in 1899 in Kyoto (died in 2000). He graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts in 1918 and three years later from Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting. One of his teachers was Kikuchi Keigetsu (1879-1955). Isaku Nakagawa learned woodblock printmaking in the classes given by Unichi Hiratsuka. His "classmates" were the Kyoto artists Tokuriki Tomikichiro, Asada Benji and Takeji Asano.
In 1932 he became a member of the artist association Nihon Hanga Kyokai (Japan Print Association). During the 1960s the artist worked as a visiting professor at the University of California with lectures on Japanese paintings and modern art.
Isaku Nakagawa contributed to the series One Hundred Views of New Japan (Shin Ni
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