Iwataro Koike was a highly influential Japanese designer and design educator. He graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1935 and later taught at the same university from 1942 to 1969. He played a key role in establishing an important early Japanese design consultancy, GK Design, through one of his student groups known as the "Group Koike". Koike was also involved in the Japan Industrial Designers Association and spoke at international design conferences, helping to further establish industrial design in Japan. He received several prestigious awards from the Japanese government in recognition of his contributions to design education and promotion.

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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Design:
Kenji Ekuan
(1929- )
A founding member of the internationally renowned Japanese
consultancy GK Design, Ekuan has been responsible for many
designs of note ranging from the pioneering Kikkoman soy sauce
bottle through to Yamaha motorcycles, the Narita NEX express train,
and the Akita bullet train. He was an important pioneer of industrial
design in Japan, playing a key role in the bringing together of
designers and leading organizations and writing eloquently on the
meaning of objects in everyday life. He graduated from the Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1955 having studied
under the highly influential teacher Iwataro Koike alongside Shinji
Iwasaki, Kenichi Shibata, and Haratsugu Ito, who together became
known as the ‘Group Koike’, the core of GK Design. Ekuan played an
important role in the company's success through his ability to develop
a network of industrial contacts and play significant roles in a number
of design organizations. In 1960 he was elected president of the Japan
Industrial Designers Association (1960) and in 1976 his international
standing was confirmed by his election to the presidency of ICSID
(theInternational Council of Societies of Industrial Design). In 1987 he
was awarded the prestigious biennial Osaka International Design
Award, one of many such awards he has received. Ekuan gained a
reputation for a philosophical approach to design that doubtless
derived from his training as a Buddhist priest prior to his design
education in Tokyo. In an essay of 1984 entitled ‘Smallness as an
Idea’ he wrote of the butsudan, a small portable Buddhist altar that
could be placed in the home as a means of communicating with one's
ancestors, part of a Japanese outlook in which material products are
endowed with spiritual values. A later, more fashionable text, The

2. Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox (1998), further developed this idea
of an interrelationship between Japanese traditions and contemporary
design practices. He suggested that the lunchbox is a key to
understanding the Japanese way of making things and that ‘the spirit
of [its] form …points to an ingenious technology that will preserve a
rich legacy for the future’. Other key texts by Ekuan include Industrial
Design: The World of Dogu, its Origins, its Future (1971), The Philosophy
of Tools (1980), and The Buddhist Automobile and the Automobile (1986).
Other roles played by Ekuan included directorship of the Street
Furniture Committee at the Expo '70 World's Fair and executive
producer of the International Design Festival at Osaka (1983).
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小池岩太郎被稱為日本工業設計先鋒，也是備受推崇的設計教育家。他1935 年東京美術學校（現
東京藝術大學）畢業後於日本帝國內閣商工省（Ministry of Commerce and Industry；戰後曾改
組為通商產業省，現改組為經濟產業省）擔任技術員（技手）。從1942 年到1969 年間於母校先
後擔任助教授、教授，曾任藝術研究基金會（芸術研究振興財団）理事長。。
小池小池Iwataro - Iwataro
1913-1992
昭和 - 平成時代，工業設計師，設計教育家。
生於1913 年2 月22 日。
屁工商工藝指導辦公室技能手部，
1947 年（現在Tokyogeidai），教授'40 關聯的母校東京美術學校教授。
形成（集團小池）設計集團GK55 日。
雅摩托車
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3. 我的工作而過。
藝術研究基金會主席。死於1992 年7 月21 日。 79 歲。來自東京。例如，“設計故事”的工
作。
到助理工程師
：楊 靜 日本筑波大學蓮見研究室 學術進修成果報告2012 年 2 月 5 日
：日本 通商產業省工業技術院下設置的「產業工藝試驗所」(Industrial Art
Institute，簡稱 IAI)，專門協助中小企業解決產品設計構造、品質測驗的問題，
同時同時也聘請外國專家到日本指導，每月出版「工芸 ニュース」(Industrial Art
News)雜誌。IAI 的前身是「商工省工藝指導所」，而小池曾在 1939-45 年間，進
入該所擔任專任技師。
http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B0%8F%E6%B1%A0%E6%96%B0%E4%BA%8C
小池新二 こいけ-しんじ
1901－1981 昭和時代のデザイン評論家。
明治34 年11 月23 日生まれ。昭和11 年前川国男らと国策にそった日本工作文化連盟を結成。
戦後は建築やデザインの評論をおこなう。25 年千葉大教授,43 年九州芸術工科大初代学長。
昭和56 年5 月4 日死去。79 歳。東京出身。東京帝大卒。著作に「汎美計画」など。
http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nlp/book_news/article/70574
福岡の芸術文化を特集する雑誌「ＡＲＴｉｎｇ」は最新の１０号で、九州芸術工科大学
（現九州大学芸術工学部）の初代学長を務め、福岡市美術館の開設に貢献したデ
ザイン評論家、故小池新二さん（１９０１～１９８１）を特集した。「欧米のデザイン思
想を根付かせる教育機関を設置し、アジアに開けた美術館を提案した」と小池さん
を再評価している。
小池さんは、日本を代表する建築家の故丹下健三さんらとともに日本工作文化連
盟を創設したデザインの先駆者としても知られている。戦前から欧米のデザインを
日本に根付かせようと情報を収集、執筆活動に打ち込んだ。特集では九州芸術工
科大学名誉教授の由良滋さんが「新しいデザインの息吹を専門家に与えた」と紹介。
福岡アジア美術館顧問の安永幸一さんは「アジアの現代美術への着眼も特筆すべ
き功績」と先見性を評価した。
ＡＲＴｉｎｇは福岡市内で活動する画家や建築家などでつくる「ＡＲＴｉｎｇ福岡」が「芸
術の中心は東京」というイメージを覆そうと福岡の芸術文化の成り立ちや現状を記
録した雑誌。

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(1913-92)
A highly distinguished Japanese teacher of design, Koike worked from 1942
to 1969 at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music from
which he had graduated in 1935. Subsequently he worked at the Industrial
Arts Institute of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in the late 1930s,
gaining further practical design experience in the lacquer industry before
taking up teaching at the Tokyo School. One particular group of his students
in the early 1950s, comprising Kenji Ekuan, Shinji Iwasaki, Kenichi Shibata,
and Haratsugu Ito, became known as the ‘Group Koike’, the core of GK
Design, an early Japanese design consultancy. Koike himself participated in
GK Design. His pedagogic influence extended to writing, as exemplified by
his pioneering 1956 book onBasic Design: Composition and Formation. His
considerable influence on the Japanese design climate was furthered through
his involvement in the Japan Industrial Designers Association (JIDA), an
important pressure group that had been established in 1952 for the
professionalization of design in Japan. He was its director in 1957 and again
from 1965 to 1966. He was also involved with wider international industrial
design promotional initiatives, speaking at the Tokyo World Design
Conference in 1960—officially declared Design Year in Japan—and at
the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID)
conference in Paris in 1963. In 1985 he was awarded the Kuni Industrial Art
Award and the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese government.
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