9 Notable alumni of Joshibi University of Art and Design
Updated: June 07, 2026 EliteDegrees
Joshibi University of Art and Design is ranked #4,517 in the world and #300 in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 9 notable alumni from Joshibi University of Art and Design sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Joshibi University of Art and Design won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Toshi Maruki
1912-2000 (aged 88)
Yōga painter
teacher
painter
illustrator
picture book writer
Toshi Maruki was a Japanese painter. Maruki is best known for the Hiroshima Panels (Genbaku no zu) series that she and her husband Iri Maruki (丸木位里, 1901–1995) produced collaboratively from around 1950. The Marukis took on heavy themes such as the atomic bomb, genocide, and environmental pollution, and constantly voiced their anti-war and peace message through their art. Toshi Maruki...
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2. Shino Watabe
1970-. (aged 56)
painter
Shino Watabe is a Japanese artist who has lived and worked in Mexico permanently since 1990. She has had numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico, more recently working with a group of Mexican and Japanese female artists called Flor de Maguey. In 2008, she partially lost her sight due to illness, but she remains a working artist, continuing to...
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3. Eiko Yamazawa
1899-1995 (aged 96)
photographer
Eiko Yamazawa was a renowned Japanese photographer. She is considered one of Japan's earliest women photographers and is among the few women photographers in Japan who were active both before and after World War II. First trained in Nihonga, she later studied photography in the U.S. under the mentorship of Consuelo Kanaga, and also exposed to the work of Kanaga's...
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4. Tomoko Naraoka
1929-2023 (aged 94)
actor
seiyū
Tomoko Naraoka was a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongō (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design.
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5. Yoshiko Okada
1902-1992 (aged 90)
actor
film director
Yoshiko Okada was a Japanese stage and film actress who defected to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
6. Chen Jin
1907-1998 (aged 91)
painter
Chen Chin, also written as Ch'en Chin, was a Taiwanese painter, known for her paintings of women (bijin). She is said to be the first Taiwanese woman painter to earn national recognition.
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7. Tamako Kataoka
1905-2008 (aged 103)
painter
artist
Tamako Kataoka was a Japanese Nihonga painter.
8. Setsuko Migishi
1905-1999 (aged 94)
painter
Migishi Setsuko was a Japanese yōga (Western-style) painter. Known for employing vivid colors and bold strokes for still-life and landscape, Migishi contributed greatly to the establishment and elevation of the status of female artists in the Japanese art scene.
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9. He Xiangning
1878-1972 (aged 94)
politician
He Xiangning was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter, and poet. Together with her husband Liao Zhongkai, she was one of the earliest members of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement Tongmenghui. As Minister for Women's Affairs in Sun's Nationalist government in Guangzhou (Canton), she advocated equal rights for women and organized China's first rally for International Women's Day in 1924. After...
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