Tomihiro Museum (富弘美術館) 富弘美術館
Paralysed in 1970 while teaching gymnastics, he painted for 52 years holding the brush in his mouth.
The museum holds the work of Hoshino Tomihiro (1946–2024), who lost the use of his arms and legs in June 1970, aged just twenty-four, while demonstrating a gymnastics exercise as a physical education teacher at the junior high school in Kuragano, Takasaki. He stayed in Gunma University Hospital for nine years; in 1972, still in hospital, he began painting wild flowers and writing short poems holding the brush in his mouth. The museum that holds his works opened on 12 May 1991 in Higashi (now part of the city of Midori) and was extended in 2005. Hoshino died on 28 April 2024, aged 78: the museum, now run by the city of Midori, preserves his work and continues to organise themed exhibitions, including the one for the thirty-fifth anniversary in 2026.
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Tomihiro Bijutsukan (富弘美術館)
