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Minako Ota is an award-winning artist, born and trained in Japan as a traditional Japanese painter. She subsequently studied and worked in the field of painting conservation in Europe and the United States.

Her work is an ongoing metamorphosis of her own self-perception and worldview. Her experiences outside of Japan made Minako's artistic vision a hybrid of Asian and European cultures, and her works reflect these opposite worlds: she combines the Western painting techniques she mastered over years through conservation with the traditional Japanese motifs of her youth.