page_title: Rune Naito
section_title: Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Rune Naito / Exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: Rune Naito exhibition at Okazaki Art Museum.
context_page_description: Rune Naito was the pen name of Japanese artist, illustrator, writer, and designer Isao Naito. His illustrations of "large-headed" baby-faced girls, first drawn for Japanese magazines in the mid-1950s, are credited with pioneering the contemporary culture and aesthetic of kawaii. He is further noted for his contributions to the Japanese gay men's magazine Barazoku, the first commercially circulated gay magazine in Japan.
context_section_description: 2001: Rune Naito Doll Museum, Shuzenji, Shizuoka
  2002: Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo
  2005: Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo
  2018: Daimaru Umeda,  Umeda, Osaka
  2018: Aeon Mall Okazaki, Okazaki, Aichi
  2019: Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Okazaki, Aichi – "Roots of Kawaii"
caption: "Roots of Kawaii" at Okazaki Mindscape Museum in 2019.
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