Woolly mammoth

 

 Photos by  Favorite Co.,Ltd.

A new item of Favorite Co.,Ltd.'s soft model line.

I sculpted the original model of this toy with supervising by a paleontologist Keiichi Takahasi, Lake Biwa Museum.

 

My work Inostrancevia was adopted as a permanent exhibition of Kuzuu Fossil Museum.

This Inostrancevia was my private work.
I repainted it for exhibition at the museum.

Before repaint

Happy New Year!

Giant cephalopod "Ammonite" from Mysterious Island(1961). I sculpted the original model of this toy. This year, Japanese sexagenary cycle is sheep.
The name of Ammonite came from Egyptian god Ammon that has horns like sheep.

The meeting of Fossil Research Society Japan.

On 15th-16th Nov. I participated in The meeting of Fossil Research Society Japan. I did examination of a picture contest of sea cow discovered in Nagaoka, dinosaur reconstruction workshops for kids, and a presentation on making of reconstruction model of sea cow Hydrodamalis.sp of the Nagaoka Municipal Science Museum. I sculpted the 1/10 scale model of it.And then, Studio Toriado made the full-size model by increasing the 1/10 model to ten times. https://www.facebook.com/hirokazu.tokugawa/posts/698292696879227
In the meeting, Hitoshi Furusawa,(Sapporo Museum Activity Center) and Keiichi Takahashi(Lake Biwa Museum) had presentations on their study.
Furusawa is the supervisor of the Hydrodamalis model.
Takahashi is the supervisor of Wolly mammoth toy of Favorite Co.,Ltd. that I sculpted the original model.http://www.f-favorite.net/SHOP/77612.html

 

 

 

SVP 2014 in Berlin.

 

 "Catch Dunkleosteus!” at SVP 2014

Dunkleosteus is http://www.f-favorite.net/SHOP/77618.html...
That was developed with reference to the models I sculpted and, supervised by Taketeru Tomita(the winner of Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Award in 2010.
I'm really glad that I could take take these photos!

A small exhibition at National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo

Dinosaur hall of National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo is closed and under renovation now. During the period, there is a small exhibition of dinosaur, and my works(Triceratops, Lambeosaurus, and Pachycephalosaurus) are exhibited too. This exhibition is till end of June 2015.

My works for Favorite Co.,Ltd's Prehistoric Life line

My works for Favorite Co.,Ltd's Prehistoric Life line.
http://f-favorite.net/english/products/prehistoric/
I sculpted them with supervision of paleontologists.
Smilodon: supervised by Shintaro Ogino
Woolly mammoth: supervised by Keiichi Takahashi
Dunkleosteus: supervised by Taketeru Tomita
Anomalocaris: Masanori Hirata,cooperation of collection of data.

I'd like to continue to work with paleontologists.
And I hope to have chances that I work with paleontologists of various countries.