Yoshin Ogata

Yoshin Ogata is a sculptor from Miyakonojo, Miyazaki — and honestly, there's something quietly compelling about a guy born in 1948 who switched from painting to sculpture after a high school art teacher showed him a book of Rodin photographs, then moved to Italy in 1971 and has worked there ever since, lately in Lerici. His marble, bronze and wood pieces return again and again to a single theme, a drop of water becoming a stream, a sea, and vapor again, as a picture of the cycle of life, and I find that kind of devotion genuinely admirable.

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Yoshin Ogata (born November 18, 1948) is a Japanese sculptor and artist from Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture. He has lived in Italy since 1971, studying sculpture at the Brera and Carrara academies, and works in Lerici, carving marble, bronze and wood on the theme of water and the cycle of life.

Name (English)

Yoshin Ogata

Name (Japanese)

緒方良信

Reading

おがた よしん

Born

November 18, 1948 (age 77)

Origin

Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Sculptor / Artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B7%92%E6%96%B9%E8%89%AF%E4%BF%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4022906

Tags

• From Miyazaki Prefecture
• Sculptor
• Artist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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