Akito Akagi

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Lacquer painter. Born in 1962 Okayama, Japan.

Graduated from the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Letters of Chuo University.

He started his career as a magazine editor at a publishing company.
After that, he moved to Wajima in 1988,
and he became an apprentice to a base-coating master of Wajima lacquerware, Susumu Okamoto, in 1989.

He owns a studio and works independently since 1994.

Since then, He has been holding solo exhibitions in various places.