Chuzo Tokutake

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Nagano Prefecture Outstanding Skill Award Shinshu Master Craftsman Nagano Prefecture Manufacturing Meister Chairman of the Nagano Prefecture Farmers Art Union Chairman of the 100th Anniversary of Farmers Art Origins Commemoration Event Wood Carving Instructor at Ueda City Museum of Art and other locations

• ・Born in 1952 in Ueda City
• ・1971 Worked in the design department of a screen printing company
• ・1974 Studied under farmer artist Chiharu Hashimoto
• ・1977 Set up a workshop in Ueda City
• ・1981 The design was adopted for the wall engraving at the entrance of the Nagano Prefectural Civic Hall.
• ・1982 At the age of 30, he became a lecturer at the Yamamoto Memorial Museum (where he worked for 32 years until the museum closed).
• ・2010 Prefectural Outstanding Skill Award (Shinshu Master Craftsman) Prefectural Woodcraft Exhibition, Specialty Exhibition, Chunichi Shimbun Award, Governor's Award, Ie no Hikari Association Chairman's Award, and other awards
• ・2014 Since the opening of the Ueda City Museum of Art, he has been a sculpture instructor. He started promoting Koppa dolls.
• ・2015 Koppa Doll Workshop Begins Chairman of the Farmers Art Union
• ・2017 Since the founding of the Koppa Doll Association, efforts have been made to popularize the art.