Jin Goto／Japanese painting painter (Nihongaka)

Jin Goto (Goto Jin) is a Japanese paintings（Nihonga） and Picture books（Children's books）painter. In 1968, Jin Goto was born. In 1988, he graduated from Osaka City Kogei High School (Fine Arts), and studied painting with Takashi Murakami for two years. From 1995, he restored the Japanese Gold leather papers (Kinkarakawashi, a kind of high-class handmade wallpaper) at Irifuneyama Memorial Hall in Kure, Ijokaku in Kobe, and Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Gardens in Tokyo. In 1996, he graduated from Tokyo University of The Arts (Painting, Nihonga), and became a student of Sumio Goto. 
Goto has a studio in Chiba Prefecture. He paints Pictures of Women (Bijinga) chiefly in Asia and Japan. He has held exhibitions at the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the Osaka City Museum of Art, and the Ako City Tabuchi Museum of Art. He teaches about the paintings of Nihonga and Children's books at Tokyo University of The Arts, and Tokyo Zokei University.