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          MY FIRST TRIP TO JAPAN was in At the time, I was a fashion designer working for a French company and traveling from Paris.

        1. MY FIRST TRIP TO JAPAN was in At the time, I was a fashion designer working for a French company and traveling from Paris.
        2. After studying oil painting and watercolor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts,.
        3. 5 Around this time Tomimoto Kenkichi, a progressive student of architecture and design, acted as conscience was also fundamental to Tomimoto's life and work.
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        5. Tomimoto Kenkichi who was to become one of Japan's leading ceramic artists.

          6. 5 Around this time Tomimoto Kenkichi, a progressive student of architecture and design, acted as conscience was also fundamental to Tomimoto's life and work....

          Tomimoto Kenkichi

          Japanese potter (1886–1963)

          In this Japanese name, the surname is Tomimoto.

          Tomimoto Kenkichi (富本憲吉, June 5, 1886 – June 8, 1963) was a Japanese potter and a Living National Treasure.

          Biography

          His family came from Nara prefecture.

          He received a commission to design a large Japanese-lacquered zelkova shelf called “kingin-sai kazari tsubo” for the Ume-no-Ma audience room of Tokyo Imperial Palace.[1]

          In November 1914, Tomimoto married Otake Kazue (also known as 'Kokichi'), a niece of the artist Otake Chikuha.

          Built in under the design direction of Yoshiro Taniguchi, Hideo Kosaka, Shiko Munakata, and Kenkichi Tomimoto, the hotel has long been.

          Kazue was at one time a member of the feminist literary group Seito (publishers of the magazine of the same name, Bluestocking). A controversial figure in her youth, Kazue had a close relationship (and, it was thought, an infatuation) with Raicho Hiratsuka.

          It is thought that Tomimoto may have drawn an early draft of the woodblock print which Otake finished and submitted to Seito, which appeared as the cover of the 1913 Ne