Kagaya Yutaka
Kagaya Yutaka was born 1968 in Saitama is a Japanese digital artist, illustrator and photographer who is known for painting elaborately detailed and spectacularly colored images of space and utopian worlds.
Kagaya Yutaka
- Name
- Kagaya Yutaka
- Born
- 5 April 1968
- Birthplace
- Saitama
- Field
- Art
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- illustrator
- Fields
- fantasy
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Kagaya Yutaka was born 1968 in Saitama is a Japanese digital artist, illustrator and photographer who is known for painting elaborately detailed and spectacularly colored images of space and utopian worlds.
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Key facts
• Honorific Prefix — The Great Digital Artist • Name — Kagaya Yutaka • Native Name — 加賀屋豊 • Birth Name — Kagaya Yutaka • Born — 5 April 1968 • Birthplace — Saitama • Field — Art • Works — Digital Art • Website — Kagayastudio.com
Biography
Biography
Kagaya Yutaka born in Saitama, north of Tokyo(Japan). He studied and graduated from the Tokyo Designer Gakuin College. He then became an illustrator for the astronomy magazine Hoshi Navi. The International Astronomical Union named the asteroid number 11949 after Kagaya Yutaka in 2003.
Style
Style
His images often include elements with a luminous quality. Some of his favorite subjects are astronomy and visions of utopian worlds. 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
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.
Identity
Identity
Kagaya Yutaka is recorded as illustrator.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1968
Kagaya Yutaka born at Saitama.
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External sources
External sources
• Official website
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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