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Fugi (Fiji) Nakamizo (1889-1950) was a Japanese American painter, printer, and illustrator. His work was exhibited on the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. In the 1930s, he produced work of the WPA Federal Art Projects, but was detained in Japanese American internment camp in Topaz, Utah during the World War II.

Early Life
Fugi (Fiji) Nakamizo was born in Fukuiken City, Japan. He moved to New York, USA during is childhood. His interest in art encouraged him to pursue Arts at Art Students' League and the Cooper Union Art School. His classmates includes Joseph Pennell, William de Leftwich Dodge, and Frank Vincent DuMond.

Career
Nakamizo was active in Branchville and Old Lyme, Connecticut, and New York City.

Nakamizo exhibited in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts annual in 1934 and had a solo exhibition mounted at the Montross Gallery in New York in September of the same year.

His work was also included in the Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters in January 1935.

In March 1935, his pieces were included Fourteenth International Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotype at the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibition materials listed him as being from Japan Japan and not the United States.