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Profile of Tomihiro Hoshino

 
1946 Born in Godo,Azuma Village,Seta,Gunma Prefecture,Japan. 
1970 Graduated from Gunma University. Became a physical education teacher at a junior high school, but had a serious accident while coaching the gymnastics club at school: becama paralyzed from the neck down due to the serious neck injury.
1972 While hospitalized in Gunma University Hospital, started writing and drawing pictures by holding a brush in his month.
1974 Came to know the Bible and baptized as a Christian.
1979 First exhibition in Maebashi City. Left the Hospital.
1981 Married.
1982
〜90
Exhibitions entitled "Flora in Verse and Color by Tomihiro Hoshino" in many cities made a quiet sensation all over japan,with more than a million visitors.
1991 Tomihiro Museum established by Azuma village. Circulating exhibitions of"Flora in Verse and Color by Tomihiro Hoshino"(mainly lithographs)in Brazil.
1994 "Flora in Verse and Color by Tomihiro Hoshino" exhibition in New York.
1997 "Flora in Verse and Color by Tomihiro Hoshino" exhibition in Hawai.
2000 "Exhibitions of Flowers:Poetry and Paintings" in Hawai.
2001 "Flora in Verse and Color by Tomihiro Hoshino" in San Francisco commemorating the 50th anniversary of US-Japan Peace Treaty.
"Flora in Verse and Color by Tomihiro Hoshino" in Los Angeles.
2002 The number of visitors at Tomihiro Museum reached four million.
2004 "Flora in Verse and Color" was invited to be a part ot the "Barrier Free Exhibition"
by the Warsaw National Museum in Poland.
2005 New museum opens in April.
He continues to paint and write essays at home.