Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: Isamu Noguchi, Tetsuo Harada, Yoshitaka Amano, Yayoi Kusama, Leiko Ikemura, Nándor Wagner, Unkei, Bome, Akio Takamori, Rokuzan Ogiwara, Tori Busshi, Jocho, Yoshitomo Nara, Shigeo Fukuda, Taro Okamoto, Kazuo Kadonaga, Kokei, Jun Kaneko, Shuhei Fujioka, Kiyoto Ota, Fujiko Nakaya, Toshio Yodoi, Jokei, Minoru Niizuma, Masayuki Nagare, Yasuhide Kobashi, Nobuko Tsuchiya, Hidari Jingoro, Yoshiteru Otani, Kotaro Takamura, Junko Mori, Hananuma Masakichi, Katsura Funakoshi, Masuo Ikeda, Jin Katagiri, Kaikei, Enku, Takamura Koun, Tankei, Naito Toyomasa. Excerpt: Isamu Noguchi Noguchi Isamu, November 17, 1904 - December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold. In 1947 Noguchi began a collaboration with the Herman Miller company, when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture ever produced, including the iconic Noguchi table which remains in production today His work lives on around the world and at the Noguchi Museum in New York City. Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles, the illegitimate son of Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet who was acclaimed in the United States, and Léonie Gilmour, an American writer who edited much of Yone Noguchi's work. Yone had ended his relationship with Gilmour earlier that year and planned to marry his true romance, The Washington Post reporter Ethel Armes. After proposing to Ethel Armes, Yone left for Japan in late August, settling in Tokyo and awaiting her arrival; their engagement fell through months later when she learned of Léonie and her newborn son. In 1906, Yone invited Léonie to come to Tokyo with their son. She at first refused, but growing anti-Japanese sentiment following the Russo-Japanese War eventually convinced her to take up Yone's offer. The two departed from San Francisco in March 1907, arriving in Yokohama to meet Yone. Upon arrival, their son was finally given the name Isamu (, "courage"). However, Yone had taken a Japanese wife by the time they arrived, and was mostly absent from his son's childhood. After again separating from Yone, Léonie and Isamu moved several times throughout Japan. In 1912, while the two were living in Chigasaki, Isamu's