In this Japanese name , the family name is Akasegawa .

Genpei Akasegawa ( 赤?川 原平 , Akasegawa Genpei ) was a pseudonym of Japanese conceptual artist Katsuhiko Akasegawa ( 赤?川 克彦 , Akasegawa Katsuhiko ) (born 27 March 1937, died 26 October 2014). He started the art group Hi-Red Center with Jiro Takamatsu and Natsuyuki Nakanishi in 1963. Akasegawa helped to start the "Roadside Observation" art group (路上?察?? in Japanese) with Terunobu Fujimori in 1986. He also created the word Tomason to describe a kind of found art. Tomason are parts of buildings that seem useless, but are interesting. ^[1]

He used another pen name Katsuhiko Otsuji ( 尾? 克彦 , Otsuji Katsuhiko ) for novels . He won the Akutagawa Prize in 1981 for a short story called "Chichi ga kieta".

Works [ change | change source ]

• 超芸術トマソン ( Ch?geijutsu Tomason ), Byakuya shob?, 1985. Reissue: Chikuma bunko, 1987, ISBN   4-480-02189-2 .
• 仙人の?、俗人の? : にっぽん解剖紀行 ( Sennin no sakura, zokujin no sakura ), JTB Nihon Kotsu Kosha Shuppan Jigyokyoku, 1993, ISBN   978-4-53301-983-8 .
• 東京ミキサ?計? ( T?ky? mikis? keikaku ), PARCO, 1984. Reissue: Chikuma bunko, 1994, ISBN   4-480-02935-4 .

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Other websites [ change | change source ]

• Genpei Akasegawa Archived 2007-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Genpei Akasegawa

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