Kenjiro Nomura

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kenjiro Nomura
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Sep 19, 1966(1966-09-19)
Age	58
Date Of Death	1956, Seattle, WA
Birthplace	Saiki
Country	Japan
Birth City	Saiki
Horoscope	Capricorn

Kenjiro Nomura Biography

Kenjiro Nomura is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on September 19, 1966 in Saiki, Saiki, Japan. Kenjiro Nomura was born in 1896 in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In 1907 his family immigrated to the United States, settling in Tacoma, Washington. When he was sixteen his parents returned to Japan; Kenjiro opted to stay in the U.S.

In 1922, after five years of study with Tadama, Nomura had some of his paintings selected by the Seattle Fine Art Society for inclusion in its Annual Exhibition of the Artists of the Pacific Northwest. The same year he and a friend, Show Toda, opened a sign painting business in Japantown. The following year they moved it to Sixth Ave. and Main St., in the heart of Nihonmachi, where it would remain for the next thirteen years. Combining their names, they called it Noto Sign Co. It soon became a successful business and a studio and hang-out for artists, as well as Nomura and Toda’s home. Notable Nikkei artists who worked and socialized there at various times included Takuichi Fujii, George Tsutakawa, Paul Horiuchi, and Kamekichi Tokita.

After Toda got married and moved on in 1928, Tokita took his place as Nomura’s business partner. The two men, who had met around 1921, would become inextricably linked, their very different ways of painting similar subjects providing contrast and context to each other’s work. Long after their deaths their paintings would continue to be exhibited side by side.

Despite his successes as an artist, the deepening Depression was taking its toll. In 1933 he was happy to be paid $38.25 a week to produce several paintings for the federal Public Works of Art Project, some of which were shown at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 1936, lack of business forced Nomura to close down Noto Sign Co.; he and Fumiko were eventually able to reestablish themselves by managing a dry-cleaning business in Seattle’s University District.

In the 1920s Seattle’s arts community was growing with an energy that continued even through the early years of the Great Depression. Nomura and his peers regularly appeared in the Seattle Art Institute’s ‘Northwest Annuals’, and when the Seattle Art Museum opened in 1933, its first solo exhibition was of Nomura’s work (both SAI and SAM, under the directorship of Dr. Richard Fuller, were descendants of the Seattle Fine Art Society). His work was also shown at the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery, and, as his reputation spread, at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Kenjiro Nomura Net Worth

Kenjiro Nomura is one of the richest Baseball Player from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kenjiro Nomura 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kenjiro Nomura (1896–1956) was a Japanese American painter. Immigrating to the United States from Japan as a boy, he became a well-known artist in the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s and 30s.

In 1916 Nomura moved to Seattle, working for a shopkeeper in the city’s bustling Japantown / Nihonmachi neighborhood (later known as the International District). Within a year he began working as an apprentice sign painter (most likely with Burgira Hirayama, the only known professional sign painter in Japantown at that time), and began taking lessons in the studio of Fokko Tadama, a prominent art teacher who instructed Nomura in the basic techniques of Western Art. A Dutch-Indonesian immigrant himself, Tadama often worked with Japanese-American students.

Nomura married in 1928, at which time he moved out of the Noto building. He and his wife Fumiko had a son, George, in 1930.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Kenjiro Nomura height Not available right now. Kenjiro weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Kenjiro Nomura Dating?

According to our records, Kenjiro Nomura is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Kenjiro Nomura’s is not dating anyone.

Relationships Record : We have no records of past relationships for Kenjiro Nomura. You may help us to build the dating records for Kenjiro Nomura!

In 1942, during the Second World War, Nomura and his family were incarcerated in the Minidoka Relocation Center. Sketches and paintings he made there over the next three years continue to be exhibited as an important record of the Japanese-American wartime experience.

Facts & Trivia

Kenjiro Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Kenjiro Nomura celebrates birthday on September 19 of every year.

Nomura eventually moved into abstract painting. He died in Seattle, Washington, in 1956.