About Takashi Kaishu

Born in Kanasawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Takashi Kaishu (1905-2004) graduated from Tokyo Art School of Fine Art and trained under the Living National Treasure Unno Kiyoshi. After his first participation to the Teiten, he was awarded at the Belgium World Exhibition (1930) and at the Chicago International Exposition (1933), After the War, in exhibited multiples times in the Nitten where he became later a council member and then an advisor, He served as the director of Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art and founded in 1976 the Kaga Metalworkers Association. Among his student, he taught as an apprentice Nagawa Mamoru who later became Living National Treasure. In 1982, he was designated Important Intangible Cultural Asset of Ishikawa Prefecture for his Kaga Zogan (metal inlay) technique.