Teresa Ikeda

Ikeda is that rare case: an idol who is also a student at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan's most competitive art school, a place where applicants routinely spend years simply trying to get in. Holding those two lives at once is what makes her interesting to me. Idol work is relentlessly public, all schedules and stages and cameras and the constant management of how you are seen. Fine art is the opposite, long silent hours where nothing happens quickly and nobody is watching. Doing both means switching between two completely different metabolisms. Born in Tokyo in 2002, she came up through Nogizaka46. That is not versatility so much as sheer nerve.

Name (English)

Teresa Ikeda

Name (Japanese)

池田瑛紗

Born

May 12, 2002 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

159 cm

Occupation

Japanese idol / singer

University

Tokyo University of the Arts

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/_ikeda.teresa_/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A0%E7%94%B0%E7%91%9B%E7%B4%97

Tags

• Tokyo
• Japanese idol
• singer

Last updated

2026-07-26

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