Overview of Kyoto City University of Arts
- Introduction by Kenji Kawano
- Outline
- History
- University Calendar
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Introduction
Kyoto City University of Arts has two main faculties of Art and Music. The total numbers of teaching staff and students are about 100 and 800, respectively. Each faculty has both undergraduate and graduate courses.
The University was established 10 years after the Meiji period, in 1880, by the Kyoto Prefectural Government with the aim of teaching both Oriental and Western Painting. The present University is a successor to over 100 years of art education and has a pedigree of both graduate and teacher artists and craftsmen who are held in high art historical esteem such as Seiho TAKEUCHI, Shouen UEMURA, Bakusen TSUCHIDA and Kunitaro SUDA. Up to the present day the total number of graduates amounts to more than 10,000.
The Music Faculty was established in the University in 1969, however the history of this relatively new faculty goes back to 1952. It has produced many famous musicians and at present concentrates western music.
In 1980, the University was moved to a spacious new campus at the foot of a mountain range in the southwest of Kyoto. The new University buildings are located in a beautiful natural setting that is blessed with a moderate climate and offer a creative place for art, crafts and music which respond to the need of modern society.
The Graduate Course was established in 1980 in the Art Faculty and in 1986 in the Music Faculty. The total numbers of students for Art and Music are 100 and 40, respectively, and both graduate courses last 2 years.
Our University aims at being open internationally, and not only exchanges students and teaching staff with China through the twinning of Kyoto and Xian City, with England through the exchange agreement between the University and the Royal College of Art, but also accepts many students from all over the world for research and postgraduate study.
As Japanese society changes from an industrial to an individual cultural bases and people's desire for a higher quality of art in their lives become stronger, the role of the art university will be vital in responding to this need.
Kyoto was the ancient capital and cultural center of Japan and has given birth to tradition of arts, crafts and performing arts which have been handed down till the present day. Kyoto City University of Arts, the successor to this rich history of tradition and creativity is now responding for its next step into the future.
Kenji KAWANO
Former President of Kyoto City University of Arts
Outline
Name
(Kyoto shiritsu geijutsu daigaku)
- Kyoto City University of Arts
- Kioto Städtische Universität für Künste
- Université Municipale des Arts de Kioto
- Università Municipale delle Arti di Kioto
- * Special thanks to Nilkamal Adak, who kindly offered us the university's name in Hindi.
- Kyoto City University of Arts
Address
- 13-6 Kutsukake-cho, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 610-11, Japan
- Telephone: +81 75 332 0701
- Fax: +81 75 332 0709
- Telephone: +81 75 332 0701
Numbers of Teaching Staff and Students
- Teaching Staff
- Fine Arts ..................... 67
- Music ......................... 23
- Music ......................... 23
- Students
- Fine Arts (under graduate) ... 500
- Music (under graduate) ....... 240
- Graduate School of Art ........ 94
- Graduate School of Music ...... 40
- Music (under graduate) ....... 240
History
- 1880
- The establishment of Kyoto-fu Gagakko
(Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting) in Kyoto Imperial Garden
as the temporary schoolhouse.
- 1889
- Transfer of control to Kyoto City and changing of its name to
Kyoto-shi Gagakko (Kyoto Municipal School of Painting).
- 1891
- Changing of its name to Kyoto-shi Bijutsu Gakko
(Kyoto Municipal School of Arts).
- 1894
- Changing of its name to Kyoto-shi Bijutsu Kogei Gakko
(Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts).
- 1901
- Changing of its name to Kyoto-shiritsu Bijutsu Gakko
(Kyoto City School of Arts).
- 1909
- Authorized by the Ministry of Education; changing of its name
to Kyoto-shiritsu Kaiga Senmon Gakko (Kyoto City
Specialist School of Painting).
- 1926
- The move to Higashiyama-ku Imakumano Hiyoshi-cho.
- 1945
- The re-establishment as Kyoto-shiritsu Bijutsu Senmon Gakko
(Kyoto City Specialist School of Arts).
- 1950
- The rising of status to Kyoto-shiritsu Bijutsu Daigaku
(Kyoto City College of Arts).
- 1952
- The establishment of Kyoto-shiritsu Ongaku Tanki Daigaku
(Kyoto City Junior College of Music) at Kita-ku Izumoji Tatemoto-cho.
- 1956
- The moving of Kyoto City Junior College of Music to Sakyo-ku
Shogoin Entomi-cho.
- 1969
- Changing of its name to Kyoto-shiritsu Geijutsu Daigaku
(Kyoto City University of Arts) and establishment of the
Faculty of Music.
- 1980
- The move to the new schoolhouse at Nishikyo-ku Ohe Kutsukake-cho.
- The establishment of Graduate School of Art.
- The establishment of Graduate School of Art.
- 1986
- The establishment of Graduate School of Music.
University Calendar
- April 1 to September 30
- 1st Semester
- October 1 to March 31
- 2nd Semester
- April 10 (Date is subject to change)
- Entrance Ceremony
- Late May
- Athletic and Cultural Festival of the Four Art Universities
- June
- Regular Concert
- July 1
- Foundation Day of the University
- July 11 to September 10 (Dates are subject to change)
- Summer Vacation
- Mid-October
- Entrance Examination of Graduate School of Art and Music
- November
- University Festival Geidai-sai
- November
- Regular Concert
- December 21 to January 9 (Dates are subject to change)
- Winter Vacation
- January
- Regular Concert
- Mid-February
- Annual Exhibition
- Late February to April 10
- Spring Vacation
- Early March
- Entrance Examination of Undergraduate School
- May 20 (Date is subject to change)
- Graduation Ceremony
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