Kenji Ekuan
| Kenji Ekuan | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 榮久庵 憲司 |
| Born |
September 11, 1929 Tokyo |
| Died | February 8, 2015 (aged 85) Tokyo |
| Residence | Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Tokyo University of the Arts |
| Occupation | Industrial designer |
| Organization | GK Design Group |
| Website | www |
Kenji Ekuan (榮久庵 憲司 Ekuan Kenji?, September 11, 1929 – February 8, 2015) was a Japanese industrial designer, best known for creating the design of the Kikkoman soy sauce bottle.
Born in Tokyo on September 11, 1929, Ekuan spent his youth in Hawaii. At the end of World War II, he moved to Hiroshima, where he witnessed the atomic bombing of the city, in which he lost his sister and his father, a Buddhist priest. He said the devastation motivated him to become a "creator of things". Later he attended Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (present-day Tokyo University of the Arts). In 1957, he founded GK Industrial Design Laboratory (ＧＫインダストリアルデザイン研究所?). "GK" stood for "Group of Koike", as Koike was the name of an associate professor at the university.
In 1970, he became president of the Japan Industrial Designers' Association and five years later he was elected as president of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
During his lifetime he served as chair of the Japan Institute of Design, dean of Shizuoka University of Art and Culture was and a trustee of the Art Center College of Design.
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