Tadayasu SAKAI Art Critic Kiichi SUMIKAWA Sculptor Kan YASUDA Sculptor Fumihiko MAKI Architect Yoshio TANIGUCHI Architect Shoichi KAJIMA Director and Senior Advisor of Kajima Corporation

1941 Born in Hokkaido 1964 Faculty of Literature, Keio University Joined The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura 1992 to 2004 Director, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama 2004 Director, Setagaya Art Museum Serves as a board member of the Japanese Council of Art Museums, and the chairman of the Museum Liaison Conference. Specializing in studies on history of Eastern and Western modern art and engaged in reviewing contemporary work. An affiliate of the International Association of Art Critics. 1986,88 Commissioner, Biennale di Venezia 1989,91 Curator, Bienal de Sao Paulo 1996 Curator, Bienal de Sao Paulo Special Exhibition Tadayasu Sakai received the first Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities with the “Chain of Sea” (reprinted by Seigensha) on the art history in the end of Edo Period and the beginning of Meiji,out of the many books he has published. His reviews on modern sculptures include the “Garden of Sculpture,” “Spirit of Tree,” “Law of Forest,” ”Ties of Sculptures” (published by Ozawa Shoten), “The Letter to a Sculptor”, “Interaction with the Sculptor”(published by Michitani) and “Isamu Wakabayashi, a Sculptor who Became a Dog” (published by Misuzu Shobo).