Musashino Art University

The Academy Musashino (Japanese武 蔵 野 美术 大学, Musashino Bijutsu Daigaku, Eng. Musashino Art University ) is an art school in Kodaira.

It was in October 1929 as Imperial Art Academy (帝国 美术 学校, Teikoku Bijitsu Gakko, Eng. Teikoku Art School ) was founded. In 1935, the Imperial Academy of Arts Tama was spun off, which corresponds to the present-day art school Tama.

In December 1948, she took on its current name.

In 1963 she participated as a founding member of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Known students and professors

• Hiromi Akiyama (1937-2012), sculptor
• Shun Akiyama (1930-2013), literary critic and author
• Koji Ishikawa, Illustrator
• Satoshi Kon (1963-2010), Director
• Motoko Dobashi (born 1976 ), painter
• Hiroki Endō (* 1970), mangaka
• Yuko Shimizu ( born 1946 ), designer
• Fusako Kuramochi
• Yoshihiko Wada
• Hiroshi Yamazaki
• Akira Nakao
• Shusaku Arakawa ( b. 1936 ), painter and graphic artist
• Aguri Uchida
• Jumpei Satō
• Masamune Kusano
• Naoto Fukasawa ( born 1956 ), designer
• Kenya Hara
• Kazunari Sakamoto ( born 1943 ), architect