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Takesi Nakazawa（1958-1983.9.1）
24 ages, 28 December 1982
　Takesi Nakazawa was born in Kanagawa prefecture of Japan, 1958. He went to the night coarse of Suidobata Fine Arts Academy in Shimoochiai of Ikebukuro from 16 years old. And he learned the drawing and oil painting to take an examination of Tokyo University of the Arts. He have ever become the top in a trial examination that matched two practical skills, charcoal drawing（200） and oil painting（200）, with three subjects(100+100+100). However, for a result, he could not but enter Musashino Art University regularly.
　In summer of 20 years old, He traveled abroad for the first time to apreciate each European Museum and the works. After he graduated from the university, he worked as an art teacher of Junior High School in Ayase city of Kanagawa prefecture.
　And in summer, 1983, he visited the studio of Tsugio Hattori who had lived in New York. He walked about some Museums of Art and many galleries of Manhattan throughout to appreciated various things and went back to his own country. In the middle of the way home, he died young by KAL007 before the daybreak on September 1st in 1983.
　After the case, although the right or wrong and the doubt of survival ware, and the truth about KAL007 had been concealed. However, at last, the Air Defense Order Department of Soviet Union announced the truth of the accident by an interview on August in 1997.
　His works were put in the film by Independent Association of Art（Dokuritsu Bijyutsu Kyoukai in Japan）and coverage of NHK was broadcasted in TV News.
Self-portrait,oil painting,F15,1978
1990 Oil paintings drawn by Takesi Nakazawa and his room ware broadcasted on TV.
1983 Died of the accident by Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on September 1, 1983. He was 25 years old.
1983 Traveled to U.S.A. while the summer vacation.
1981 Selected by Dokuritsu Exhibition.
1980 Fine art teacher of a Junior High School in Kanagawa prefecture.
1980 Received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Musashino Art University in Tokyo.
1978 Travel to appreciate many works of European Museums in the summer.
1975 Studied in the preparatory course of Suidobata Fine Arts Academy.
1958 Born in Kanagawa prefecture of Japan.