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was a pseudonym of Japanese artist (March 27, 1937 – October 26, 2014). He used another pen name, , for literary works. == Biography == Akasegawa was born in 1937 in Yokohama, and moved to Ashiya, Ōita and Nagoya in his childhood because of his father's job. Shusaku Arakawa was a high school classmate in Nagoya. In 1960, Akasegawa became involved within the Neo-Dada movement, along with Ushio Shinohara, Shusaku Arakawa, and Masanobu Yoshimura. He formed the Hi-Red Center with Jiro Takamatsu and Natsuyuki Nakanishi in 1963, which was a group of artists that presented their works as a collective in Japan; they performed happenings within the Hi-Red Center. Akasegawa was also associated with the avant-garde. In the 1970s he used the idea of Hyper-Art (''chōgeijutsu''), an ordinary but useless street object that happened to look like a conceptual artwork despite nobody having intended this. He called such things ''Thomassons'' (named for Yomiuri Giants outfielder Gary Thomasson) and published photographs of them first within the magazine ''Shashin Jidai'' and later within books. As "Katsuhiko Otsuji," he received the Akutagawa Prize in 1981 for his short story, "Chichi ga kieta". Akasegawa is known for many humorous essays, and his 1998 book ''Rōjinryoku'' was a bestseller. Akasegawa was fond of old cameras, especially Leicas, and from 1992 to around 2009, he joined Yutaka Takanashi and Yūtokutaishi Akiyama in the photographers' group Raika Dōmei, which held numerous exhibitions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Genpei Akasegawa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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