Genpei Akasegawa

Akasegawa Genpei (Japanese赤 瀬 川 原 平, Akasegawa Genpei, actually: Katsuhiko Akasegawa ,赤 瀬 川 克 彦, Akasegawa Katsuhiko; born March 27, 1937 in Yokohama ) is a Japanese avant-garde artists and writers.

Life

Akasegawa attended from 1952 to 1954 the Asahigaoka High School in Nagoya and studied from 1955 to 1975 at the Musashino Art College in Tokyo. The avant-garde artists joined the Neo - Dada movement to Ushio Shinohara, Shusaku Arakawa and Yoshimura Masanobu. For his first solo exhibition, he invited with enlarged replicas of 1000 yen note, which earned him an accusation of banknote forgery. The incident was internationally known as Thousand Yen Bill Incident.

With Jiro Takamatsu and Natsuyuki Nakamishi he founded in 1963, the Hi Red Center, where the group organized artistic happenings. From 1970 he taught at the Bigakko Art School. At the same time he began the publication of a series of satirical manga in the newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

From 1979 Akasegawa published novels under the pen name Katsuhiko Otsuji (尾 辻 克 彦, Otsuji Katsuhiko ). He received the Young Investigator Award for Chūōkōron Hadazawari and in 1980 awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Chichi ga Kieta, in 1983 with the Noma Literary Prize for Yukinohara. The special prize of the Mainichi Cultural Prize he received in 1999 for Rōjiroku.

In 1986 he founded with the architect Terunobu Fujimori, the illustrator Shinbo Minami, Joji Hayashi the writer and the editor of Tetsuo Matsuda, the Rojo Kansatsu Gakkai ( Roadway Observation Society). In 1989 he worked with the script for Hiroshi Teshigaharas film Rikyu, the two brought a nomination for the Japanese Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Swell

• SCAI The Bathhouse - Genpei Akasegawa
• Maga update - Mangaka - Akasegawa Genpei
• DNP Museum Information - On Terunobu Fujimori
• Reiko Tomii, " Akasegawa Genpei as a populist Avant -Garde " (PDF, 3.6 MB)

• Visual Artists (Japan)
• Author
• Novel, epic
• Literature (Japanese)
• Japanese
• Born in 1937
• Man
• Pseudonym