<history>

1948　born in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture

1975　graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts

2001　appointed to a professorship at Kurashiki

            University of Science and the Arts

<exhibitions>

1975　The 1st Prints contest of The Osaka

            Contemporary Art Center

1978　Belknap Memorial Print Exhibition (Columbia

            University)

1981　Western-style portraits and Japanese ones

            (The National Museum of Art)

1988　MAXI GRAPHICA (Kyoto Municipal Museum of

            Art)

1993　Exhibition of the latest works (The National

            Museum of Art)

1994　Holy Night by Takashi Tanaka (Nagoya City

            Art Museum)

1999　21 Printers (The National Museum of Art)

2004　HANGA Waves of East – West Cultural

             Interchange(The University Art Museum,

             Tokyo University of the Arts)

2008　MAXI GRAPHICA Final Destinations (Kyoto

             Municipal Museum of Art)

2010　3Octaves Generations in harmony (Kouichi

            Fine Arts)

<Public Collections>

Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art

The National Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama