Tokyo Polytechnic University

{{Short description|Private university in Honchō, Nakano, Tokyo}}

{{Infobox university

| name = Tokyo Polytechnic University

| image = frameless

| native_name = {{lang|ja|東京工芸大学}}

| established = Founded 1923,
Chartered 1966

| type = Private

| president = Nobuyuki Kobayashi

| city = Tokyo

| country = Japan

| campus = Nakano, Tokyo, Atsugi, Kanagawa

| website = {{URL|http://www.t-kougei.ac.jp/e/}}

}}

{{nihongo|Tokyo Polytechnic University|東京工芸大学|Tōkyō Kōgei Daigaku}} is a private university in Honchō, Nakano, Tokyo. Its nickname is Shadai (写大). It was formerly known as Tokyo College of Photography ({{nihongo2|東京写真大学}}, Tōkyō Shashin Daigaku).

The university was founded as Konishi Professional School of Photography in Shibuya in 1923. The founder, Rokuemon Sugiura VII, was the president of Konishi Main Shop (later Konica) at that time and founded the school to fulfil the wish of Rokuemon Sugiura VI, the previous president.{{Cite web|url=https://www.konicaminolta.com/eu-en/corporate/history-timeline.html|title=History - Corporate Information|website=KONICA MINOLTA|access-date=2019-08-23}}

Since 2007, the university has offered courses in manga studies and animation studies. Tokyo Polytechnic is also notable for being one of the few universities in Japan to have a game design department,{{Cite web|url=https://www.t-kougei.ac.jp/en/gakubu/arts/game/|title=Department of Game{{!}}Faculty of Arts{{!}}Tokyo Polytechnic University|website=東京工芸大学|access-date=2019-08-23}} with its faculty including such notable practitioners as Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZb5CAAAQBAJ|title=Video Games Around the World|last=Wolf|first=Mark J. P.|date=May 2015|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262527163|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=636}}{{Cite web|url=https://home.uni-leipzig.de/jgames/replayingjapan2016/keynotes-announced/|title=Keynotes announced! – Replaying Japan 2016|access-date=2019-08-23}} and Xevious creator Masanobu Endō.{{Cite web|url=https://www.todayonline.com/tech/games/modernising-super-mario-how-nintendo-has-reinvented-its-star|title=Modernising Super Mario: How Nintendo has reinvented its star|website=TODAYonline|access-date=2019-08-23}} The university also operates the Suginami Animation Museum, which focuses on the history and future of the animation industry in Japan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gotokyo.org/en/spot/173/index.html|title=Tokyo Polytechnic University Suginami Animation Museum|last=Bureau|first=Tokyo Convention & Visitors|website=The Official Tokyo Travel Guide, GO TOKYO|access-date=2019-08-23}}