Toko Shinoda (1913-2021) moved to New York in 1956.
America at that time was a time of change with many new ideas and trends emerging.
This will affect all fields, and traditional forms of expression will be transformed in music, literature, film, photography, and more.

Art was no exception, and Abstract Expressionism reached its peak. This new style of painting, also known as the "New York School," shifted the center of world art from Paris to New York.
Jackson Pollock, a representative Abstract Expressionist artist, died in a car accident in February of that year, but this style continued to dominate painting even after that. At the same time, young artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were beginning to produce new types of painting that would attract attention for the next generation.

Visiting New York, the center of new culture at the time, Shinoda met many different people and built a new world for himself.