Born 1966 in Tokyo, Tenmyouya worked as an art director in a record company before making his debut as a contemporary artist. Though his self-taught painting inherits traditional Japanese style and format, such as the Kano-ha school, Rinpa school and Ukiyoe, his aim is to destroy and evolve all art forms and the establishment. He ironizes the Japanese traditional arts schools and launches his Fighting school of painters. Calling himself a 'Neo Nihonga painter', his unique works draw inspiration from wide ranging areas, such as violence, faith and social caricature, including 'Kamikaze', a Zero fighter plane depicted like a 'decorated truck' and a social satire, 'Bush vs Bin-Laden'. He showed his work at the 'American Effect' exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in2003. Recently his work was reviewed in the New York Times; he is establishing himself well abroad. His work is mainly represented by the Mizuma Art Gallery in Japan. He also exhibited in "MOT Annual 2006: NO BORDER- From 'Nihonga' to /'Nihonga'" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

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