Just 16 and recently released from a naval academy, Kenji Ekuan
witnessed Hiroshima’s devastation from the train taking him home. “Faced
with that nothingness, I felt a great nostalgia for human culture,” he
recalled from the offices of G. K. Design, the firm he co-founded in
Tokyo in 1952. “I needed something to touch, to look at,” he added.
“Right then I decided to be a maker of things.”
He died in a hospital in Tokyo last Sunday. He was 85.
He died in a hospital in Tokyo last Sunday. He was 85.
He coulda been a gardener.
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