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        2. Born in Kochi Prefecture in , Okanoue moved to Tokyo with her family while still a young child.
        3. She stumbled upon the creative potential of collage when she noticed the cut-out shape of a woman's head on her desk, after snipping out pictures of dresses from models in magazines.
        4. Born in Kochi and raised in Tokyo, Okanoue began to make photo collages while studying fashion and drawing at the Bunka Gakuin in Tokyo in the early s.
        5. In , while studying fashion drawing in Japan, Toshiko Okanoue had no confidence in her ability to draw and claimed to know almost nothing about the history.

          6. She stumbled upon the creative potential of collage when she noticed the cut-out shape of a woman's head on her desk, after snipping out pictures of dresses from models in magazines....

          Toshiko Okanoue

          Avant-garde artist (b.

          1928)

          Toshiko Okanoue (岡上 淑子, Okanoue Toshiko, born 3 January 1928) is a Japanese artist associated with the Japanese avant-garde art world of the 1950s and best known for her Surrealist photo collages.[1]

          Early career

          Born in Kochi and raised in Tokyo, Okanoue began to make photo collages while studying fashion and drawing at the Bunka Gakuin in Tokyo in the early 1950s.[2] The young Okanoue, initially knew little of art history or the Surrealist movement.[3]

          In 1952, a classmate from Keisen Girls' High School introduced Okanoue to poet and art critic Shuzo Takiguichi,[a] a leading figure in the Japanese Surrealist movement, who would help introduce her to the wider art world, including the work of European Surrealists, such as German artist Max Ernst, who was an influence on her subsequent work.[1]

          Over the next six years she would produce over 100 works.[6] She exhibit