Seventy Years in Aoyama

It was seventy years ago, in May 1954, that Taro Okamoto established his studio at this location.
It was an important place to him, the site of his parents’ home where he had lived from birth until he moved to Paris. However, when he returned after the war, he found the place covered in wheat fields—his house, his artwork, everything had been lost in the air raids. Taro had no choice but to make a fresh start from literally nothing, but he never lost heart and soon began to make inroads into the postwar Japanese art scene.