Tokyo University of the Arts is an art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju, Adachi, Tokyo. The university owns two halls of residence: one (for both Japanese and international students) in Adachi, Tokyo,[1] and the other (for mainly international students) in Matsudo, Chiba.
【History】
The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and the Tokyo Music School, both of which were founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku.On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from “Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music” to “Tokyo University of the Arts.”
The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
【Department】
Department of Fine Arts
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)
Japanese Painting
Oil Painting
Sculpture
Craft
Design
Architecture and Planning
Aesthetics and Art History
Inter-media Arts
Conservation
Department of Music
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)
Composition
Conducting
Vocal Music
Piano
Organ
String instruments
Wind and Percussion Instruments
Early Music
Musicology
Traditional Japanese Music
Musical Creativity and the Environment
Film and new media graduate school
(only for graduate student)
Film production
New media
Animation
【Organization】
University Art Museum
University Library
University Orchestra
University Opera
Administration Office
Art Media Center
Center for Music Research
Geidai Art Plaza
Health Care Service Center
Institute of Ancient Art Research
Oversea Student Center
Photography Center
Performing Arts Center
Senior High School of Music
Sogakudo Concert Hall
Training Center for Foreign Language and Diction
