Kinhide Tokudaiji | |
Native Name: | 徳大寺 公英 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Birth Date: | 2 November 1919 |
Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Other Names: | Kimihide Tokudaiji |
Occupation: | Art critic |
Parents: | Saneatsu Tokudaiji Yoneko Matsudaira[1] |
, also known as Kimihide Tokudaiji, is a Japanese art critic and aristocrat who was the head of the Tokudaiji family.
Kinhide Tokudaiji was born on 2 November 1919 in Tokyo as the eldest son of Prince Saneatsu Tokudaiji and Yoneko Tokudaiji. Yoneko was from the Matsudaira family and was the daughter of Count Naoyuki Matsudaira.[2]
Tokudaiji studied political science at the Tokyo Imperial University, graduating in 1945.[3]
Tokudaiji was one of the founding members of Kōbō Abe's Kiroku Geijutsu no Kai.[4] Besides teaching at Gakushuin University, he was also commissioned by the Bridgestone Museum of Art.[5]