Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau a Ekuan i Tokyo i te Mahuru 11, 1929, i noho tana tamarikitanga ki Hawaii. I te mutunga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ka neke ia ki Hiroshima, i reira ia i kite ai i te pahūtanga o te poma karihi ki te taone nui, i mate ai tana tuahine me tona papa, he tohunga Buddhist. I kii ia ko te whakangaromanga i akiaki ia ki te noho hei "kaihanga mea". I muri mai ka haere ia ki te Whare Wananga o Tokyo mo nga Toi Toi me te Waiata (i tenei ra ko te Whare Wananga o Tokyo o nga Toi). I te tau 1957, i whakatuhia e ia te GK Industrial Design Laboratory (GKインダストリアルデザイン研究所). Ko te "GK" i tu mo te "Group of Koike", na te mea ko Koike te ingoa o te kaiwhakaako honohono i te whare wananga.I te 1970, ka noho ia hei perehitini mo te Japan Industrial Designers 'Association, a e rima tau i muri mai ka pootihia ia hei perehitini mo te International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.I a ia e ora ana i mahi ia hei tiamana o te Japan Institute of Design, he tumuaki o te Shizuoka University of Art and Culture me te kaitiaki o te Art Center College of Design. I mate a Ekuan i te hohipera i Tokyo i te Hui-tanguru 8, 2015, i te 85 o ona tau.  Pātai: I noho a Ekuan ki hea i a ia e tamariki ana?
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