徳永和子、画家
About Kazuko Tokunaga
Exhibit in New York, 2006
Noh dance performance, 1975
Bio
Tokunaga with teacher, Yuki Ogura, 1984
Kazuko Tokunaga is a nihonga painter (traditional Japanese painting style with hand mixed mineral pigments), based in Tokyo, whose work has been featured in art galleries throughout Japan and internationally.
Tokunaga spent many decades apprenticing and training through traditional nihonga lineages. She apprenticed for 20 years with Keimei Anzai (disciple of Ryuko Kawabata). Then, Tokunaga apprenticed for 10 years with Yuki Ogura (disciple of Yasuda Yukihiko), the renowned painter awarded the national Order of Cultural Merit (Bunka-Kunsho).
She mounts and frames all of her work herself and has passed on this traditional lineage of painting to her many students.
Tokunaga's work includes her celebrated collection of maiko portraits (geisha apprentices), and nature inspired themes in her nihonga style paintings and hanging scrolls.
She has also been writing haikus for much of her life, often pairing them with her paintings.
Tokunaga also spent years working in kimono design at the Seibu department store. She also had the role of head kimono design on the set of 1962 film, My Geisha, starring Shirley Maclaine.
Tokunaga has also dedicated much of her life to studying music, as an avid singer, participating in chorus and opera ensembles, learning the shamisen, and training in and performing Noh dance.
Training & Education
1952 - 1957
1960 - 1980
1980 - 1990
Seijo Gakuen
Nihonga Apprenticeship with Keimei Anzai
Nihonga Apprenticeship with Yuki Ogura
Exhibitions Highlights
Solo
2017
Group
2006
Artexpo New York
2017
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