Biography

Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
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2003
Solo exhibition, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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2010
Solo exhibition, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (’11, ’12)
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2012
Art Fair Tokyo, Japan (’13, ’21)
Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
- 2013
- 2014
- 2016
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2017
Of Legends and Lore – Japanese Ink Paintings by Takafumi Asakura,
Serindia Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
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2018
Seattle Art Fair, USA (’19, ’22)
Takafumi Asakura, Taimei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
Awards
2002 Nitten Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (selected every year since)
2003 Nisshun Fine Arts Exhibition (’04, ’05, ’06, ’07, ’08, ’09, ’10, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18)
2010 Special Selection Award, Nitten Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (’12)
2013 Work awarded Special Selection, Nisshun Fine Arts Exhibition
2015 Juror, Nitten Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
Public Collections
Public Collections
Spencer Museum of Art – University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA
The Kennedy Theatre, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA
Okamura Tenmangu Shrine, Yokohama, Japan
Osannomiya Hie Shrine, Yokohama, Japan
Takaotenjin Shrine, Hachioji, Japan
Jujusan Asakawa Kotohira Daigongen Shrine, Hachioji, Japan
Selected Commissions Works
Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto, Japan
朝倉隆文
Takafumi
Asakura
Takafumi
Asakura

Asakura
- 1978 Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- 2002 Tama Art University, MFA
- Lives and works in Yokohama
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WorksWorks
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Spring Night Journey (2023)
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A Transcendental Divinity - The Source - (2023)
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A Transcendental Divinity - Water - (2023)
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Emergence From Chaos (2023)
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State of the Restoration of Light (2023)
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The Heavenly Tree of Life (2022)
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The Sacred Tree of Life (2022)
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The Scent of Lotus Flowers (2021)
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Quadrivial Boundaries (2021)
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The Transcendence of the Primordial Heavens (2021)
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Underneath the Stars, the Scent of Flowers (2021)
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The Origin of the Wind (2020)
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The Birth of the Heavens (2020)
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The Great Pine and the Ocean (2020)
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The Manifestation of Light (2020)
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The Waters of Genesis (2020)
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The Flow of Purity During the Long Spring (2019)
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Thinking of Nightfall (2019)
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Cherry Blossoms at the Break of Dawn (2018)
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The Elements that Flow (2018)
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Forms that Emerge from Three Divine Elements (2017)
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Oh Great Pine, Hear the Ocean Waves (2017)
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Forms Imbued with Divine Multiplicity (2017)
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Manifesting the Existential Duality of the Path Ahead (2016)
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Soaring Dragons in the Sky (2016)
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Phoenixes in the Heavens (2016)
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Pine and Celebrations (2014)
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Peonies in Bloom (2012)