Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Ihe mere eme: A mụrụ Ekuan na Tokyo na Septemba 11, 1929, o biri ndụ ntorobịa ya na Hawaii. Mgbe Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ biri, ọ kwagara Hiroshima, bụ́ ebe ọ nọ hụ bọmbụ atọm a tụrụ n'obodo ahụ, bụ́ nke gburu nwanne ya nwanyị na nna ya, bụ́ onye ụkọchukwu Buddha. O kwuru na mbibi ahụ kpaliri ya ịghọ "onye okike nke ihe". Mgbe e mesịrị, ọ gara Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (nke dị ugbu a na Tokyo University of the Arts). N'afọ 1957, o guzobere GK Industrial Design Laboratory (GKインダストリアルデザイン研究所). "GK" na-anọchi anya "Group of Koike", dịka Koike bụ aha onye prọfesọ na mahadum ahụ.Na 1970, ọ ghọrọ onye isi oche nke Japan Industrial Designers 'Association na afọ ise ka e mesịrị, a họpụtara ya dị ka onye isi oche nke International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.N'oge ndụ ya, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onyeisi oche nke Japan Institute of Design, onye isi nke Shizuoka University of Art and Culture na onye nlekọta nke Art Center College of Design. Ekuan nwụrụ n'ụlọ ọgwụ na Tokyo na February 8, 2015, mgbe ọ dị afọ 85.  Ajụjụ: Ebee ka Ekuan biri n'oge ọ bụ nwata?
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