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Murakami Yuji
Murakami Yuji
1964‐
Murakami Yuji was born in Tokyo. In 1987, he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He won several awards at the Inten Exhibitions, and in 2000, he was recommended as a regular member of Inten. In 2006, he won the second Spring Adachi Museum Award with Cats in a Port. In 2008, he suddenly stopped painting to enter the Buddhist priesthood. Today, however, he continues to release works on his own themes, such as streetscapes with an exotic mood or the world of imagination.