Kagaya Yutaka (カガヤ, born 1968 in Saitama) is a Japanese digital artist, illustrator and photograph who is known for painting elaborately detailed and spectacularly colored images of space and utopian worlds.

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Biography

Kagaya Yutaka studied and graduated from the Tokyo Designer Gakuin College. He then became an illustrator for the astronomy magazine Hoshi Navi.[1]

The International Astronomical Union named the asteroid number 11949 after Kagaya Yutaka in 2003.[1]

Style

His images often include elements with a luminous quality. Some of his favorite subjects are astronomy and visions of utopian worlds.[1]

His most famous works focus on three main topics: Celestial Exploring, Galactic Railroad and Starry Tales. Kagaya really likes the night sky with stars and he often uses the blue color in his work.

Filmography

• Fantasy Railroad in the Stars (銀河鉄道の夜) with Kenji Miyazawa (DVD, 2007). The DVD features the story of a boy dreaming of travelling by train through the Milky Way, and the story is narrated by the voice actress Kuwashima Houko.

Bibliography

• The Encyclopedia of the Four Seasons

References

External sources

• Official website

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[ru] Кагая, Ютака