Toronto

Michiko Nakamura

Michiko Nakamura is a ceramic artist, born and raised in Japan. Her relationship to clay and art began in childhood; she grew up near a town famous for its history of over 1200 years of pottery production. Since elementary school, she liked to create three-dimensional objects so it was a natural choice for her to […]

Fujiko Imajishi

Japanese-born Fujiko Imajishi has made her home in Canada since 1968. After studies with Lorand Fenyves, Ruggiero Ricci, Franco Gulli and the Hungarian Quartet she went on to win both the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Competitions. She is concertmaster of the Esprit Orchestra and until 2009 was concertmaster of the National Ballet of Canada, and […]

Peter Kosaka

Peter Kosaka is a Japanese-born actor who built a film and theatre career primarily in Toronto, all while working a day job in finance. He came to Canada to study acting at the University of Windsor, receiving his BFA in 1985. After graduating, he worked as a dancer in a modern dance company, and later […]

Miki Inokuchi

Having grown up in the household of instrument makers, Miki has worked together with his father Masa Inokuchi making guitars and violins from early teen years. At age 23, he decided to carry on the family tradition. Rather than taking the usual route of starting with carving and construction of the instrument, Miki devoted his […]

Daniel Teramura

Daniel Teramura is a Toronto-based architect and partner at Moriyama & Teshima. He has been with the firm since 1986, and worked on many of their high-profile projects such as the Saudi Arabia National Museum, Lakehead University’s New LEED Platinum Academic Building, and Vari Hall at York University. His specialty is architecture for higher education, […]

Bruce Kuwabara

Bruce Kuwabara is one of the most celebrated and influential architects in Canada, and a founding partner of the internationally recognized KPMB firm. His awards include being made an Officer of the Order of Canada, numerous Governor General’s Awards, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal, and other honours. He has designed public and […]

Takuro Kamata

Takuro Kamata (1939-) is an artist who worked primarily in traditional Japanese methods of textile design and woodblock prints. Originally from Miyagi prefecture in Japan, Kamata studied economics and got a job in the insurance business. At this time, he also pursued his interest in arts and crafts, and eventually studied woodcut printmaking under Toshi […]

Roy Matsui

Roy Matsui is the architect responsible for the Momiji Seniors Centre in Scarborough, Ontario, as well as many other projects throughout his decades-long career, including hotels, condominiums, and office buildings in and around Toronto, as well as Richview Library, and the Wallace Emerson Community Centre. He was awarded a Governor General’s Medal in 1980 and […]

Ted Teshima

Ted Teshima was born in Sea Island, British Columbia on Sept. 4, 1938. While in high school, he was inspired by a book about Frank Lloyd Wright and chose to pursue architecture as a career. He graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto in 1962 and went on to become partner […]

Ajon Moriyama

Ajon Moriyama is an award-winning independent architect based in Toronto. With a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carleton University, he worked at his father Raymond Moriyama’s architecture firm, Moriyama and Teshima Architects and Planners, until 2013, taking part in over 60 award-winning projects. He has collaborated with his father and his brother, Jason, also an […]

Jason Moriyama

Jason Moriyama is an award-winning architect based in Toronto who specializes in cultural buildings and university design. Educated in Ottawa, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, Moriyama has built his career at the architectural firm co-founded by his father, the legendary architect Raymond Moriyama: Moriyama & Teshima Architects, where he is currently a partner and lead design […]

Raymond Moriyama

Raymond Moriyama is one of Canada’s most renowned architects of the twentieth century. After completing his studies at the University of Toronto and McGill, Moriyama began working as an architect in 1958, with projects such as the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and the Ontario Science Centre. In 1970, Moriyama and fellow architect Ted Teshima joined […]

Gene Kinoshita

“Gene Kinoshita is a retired architect who worked in the Toronto area. For forty years, he was a founding principal of Moffatt Kinoshita Architects. He got his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia and his Master of Architecture at Yale University. He worked extensively on projects with the University of Western Ontario […]

Beverly Horii

Beverly Horii is a Toronto-based architect, and the managing director and principal at IA Interior Architects in Toronto. Horii holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo, and worked on a number of prominent corporate renovation projects, as well as designs for the National Association of Japanese […]

David Fujiwara

David Fujiwara is a Toronto-based architect who runs a consulting firm specializing in building and space design. In the over thirty years that he has run his firm, Fujiwara has designed houses, health centres, offices, and museum exhibits throughout the Toronto region including the JCCC Resource Centre exhibit design. Fujiwara curated and wrote the text […]