- Names
- 刀根康尚
- TONE Yasunao (index name)
- Tone Yasunao (display name)
- 刀根康尚 (Japanese display name)
- とね やすなお (transliterated hiragana)
- Date of birth
- 1935
- Birth place
- Tokyo
- Date of death
- 2025-05-12
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Sound Art
- 2021
- “Tone Yasunao Ōraru Hisutorī (Oral History). 2013-02-04.” Oral History Archives of Japanese Art. Last modified 2021-03-17. http://www.oralarthistory.org/archives/tone_yasunao/interview_01.php
Wikipedia
Yasunao Tone (刀根 康尚, Tone Yasunao, 1935 – 12 May 2025) was a Japanese multidisciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and working in New York City. He graduated from Chiba University in 1957 with a major in Japanese Literature. An important figure in postwar Japanese art during the 1960s, he was active in many facets of the Tokyo art scene. He was a central member of Group Ongaku and was associated with a number of other Japanese art groups such as Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi-Red Center, and Team Random (the first computer art group organized in Japan).
- VIAF ID
- 96606593
- ULAN ID
- 500125462
- AOW ID
- _945cf4ae-7258-4732-b78c-628c708690e5
- NDL ID
- 00085367
- Wikidata ID
- Q8050043
- 2025-05-16