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Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚)  is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo, Japan in 1966.

He calls his art style Neo Nihonga and is known for merging techniques and themes from traditional Japanese art with themes of modern Japanese life in his work. In Japan, the artist has somewhat of an "outlaw" reputation for his mixing of fine art and street art. During his early career he worked as an art director at a record company and did illustration work for underground Japanese magazines including Burst. He currently lives and works in Saitama, Japan and is represented by the Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo.

In 2010 he proposed a new Japanese art scheme named "BASARA" which is extravagant and extraordinary and embodies a Samurai aesthetic like "Basara" in Nanboku dynasty era and "Kabuki-mono" in the end of Sengoku era.

In 2012 he produced a new commercial gallery to cause a sensation.Therefore he always keeps challenging to make a new style against Japanese snobbish society.

Exhibitions
Made in Japan, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2006 Gundam: Generating Futures, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2006 Bunshin, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 Asian Invitational, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA, 2004 American Effect, Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA, 2003 Kabuku, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 Japanese Spirit, Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2000

Awards
The only Japanese artist selected for the FIFA World Cup Germany Poster, 2006 Taro Okamoto Memorial Award, Special Award, 2003.

Publications
Tenmyouya Hisashi, published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2006 Hisashi Tenmyouya: Near Equal, video documentary directed by Go Ishizaki, 2006 Kabuki-mono Art Catalog, published by Parco, 2004 Japanese Spirit Art Catalog, published by Gakken, 2003