Memories

Autobiographical Essay by Painter Takuma Tokunaga

Chapter 1 Origins

Chapter 2 Middle and High School Years

Chapter 3 Kanazawa College of Art

Chapter 4 First Journey to Spain (1969)

Chapter 5 Life and Work in Madrid

Chapter 6 The Royal Academy of San Fernando and the Prado Masters

Chapter 7 To La Mancha

Chapter 8 Meeting Vicente

Chapter 9 Return and Artistic Activities in Kobe

Chapter 10 The Beginning of the Ijinkan Series

Chapter 11 Encounter with Spanish Posters

Chapter 12 1979, Back to Spain

Chapter 13 The Light of Toledo

Chapter 14 The Philosophy of Outdoor Painting

Chapter 15 Return to Campo de Criptana

Chapter 16 Color and Memory

Chapter 17 Kobe and the Ijinkan

Chapter 18 The Great Hanshin Earthquake and Lost Landscapes

Chapter 19 The Study of Light

Chapter 20 Education and Transmission

Chapter 21 The Significance of the Spanish Poster Collection

Chapter 22 The Contemporary Meaning of Figurativism

Chapter 23 Aging and Creative Work

Chapter 24 Spain as an Eternal Site

Chapter 25 Painting and Time

Chapter 26 Materials and the Body

Chapter 27 Painting as Memory

Chapter 28 To Future Painters

Chapter 29 At the End of Memory