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Tominaga Shoen was born in 1928 in Nagoya
The action painting of Jackson Pollock began to be shown in Japan in the late 1940s after World War II, and had an impact on the teenage Tominaga. In 1951, when he was 22 and had begun producing avant-garde calligraphy, a turning point came with the formation of Bokujin-kai (lit. “Ink Man Group”) by Inoue Yuichi, Morita Shiryu and others. Morita, already a friend of Tominaga’s, visited Nagoya and invited the young calligrapher, whose works were already earning acclaim, to join the group. Tominaga became a Nagoya-based contributor to the group’s journal …