Yayoi Kusama – Japanese Writer and Artist

Yayoi Kusama is well-known in Tokyo for wearing brightly colored wigs and for using signature spots in her creations. She is focused on creating and bringing her artwork to life, using an intensity and repetition that embodies the work she does.

Kusama has been in the art scene for a long time, and she has been able to makes some really revolutionary and radical things over the years. She is admired for her unapologetic dedication to her art, which is always evolving and changing.

In the future, when people see what she has created they will understand that her vision has an “eternal endurance”. Over her career, she has been able to produce a wide range of media, from collages to painting, sculptures to performance art, even environmental installations.

Her art often has psychedelic colors, pattern, and repetition and has inspired artists like Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. She is considered one of the most important artists to hail from Japan and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2016.

The feminine name Yayoi is Japanese and combines one of many elements with 生 that means “genuine, birth, or life”. The elements include: 1) 弥 which means “all the more” or “increasingly”, 2) 八 that means “eight”, 3) 彌 that means “extensive, full, fill, or complete”, 4) 也 that means “to be”, or 5) 八 & 代 which means “change, age, charge, fee, convert, period, generation, rate, replace, or substitute”.