Hajime Tsutsui

Hajime Tsutsui is one of those rare people where you look at the job title and immediately have to do a double-take — photographer, painter, video artist, film director, musician, all on the same business card. Born in Katsushika, Tokyo in 1970, Sagittarius year of the Dog, which honestly tracks perfectly for someone who clearly cannot be fenced into a single medium. This isn't jack-of-all-trades restlessness; it reads more like someone whose ideas keep outgrowing whatever container they're currently working in, so they just pick up a new one. The fact that he runs a personal site and keeps everything else quietly off the radar — no public agency, Instagram locked down — gives the whole thing a kind of deliberate, unhurried confidence that I find genuinely appealing. He's building his own world on his own terms, and that's a pretty good way to spend a life.

Hajime Tsutsui is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist born on December 7, 1970, in Katsushika, Tokyo. He works across photography, painting, video art, film direction, and music. He maintains an official website at hajimerock.com while keeping most personal and professional details private.

Name (English)

Hajime Tsutsui

Name (Japanese)

筒井はじめ

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つつい はじめ

Born

December 7, 1970 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog (戌)

Origin

Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Photographer / Painter / Filmmaker / Film Director / Musician

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://hajimerock.com
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AD%92%E4%BA%95%E3%81%AF%E3%81%98%E3%82%81

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Photographer
• Painter
• Filmmaker

Last updated

2026-06-02

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