Born in Los Angeles, raised in Tokyo and Yokohama, and educated in Indiana, Isamu Noguchi's early life predicted his peripatetic course. First embracing sculpture in New York, Noguchi traveled to Paris, and later to China and Japan, to learn his craft. After the Second World War he toured the world studying early sculpture, and he continued to move between the United States, Japan and Italy to carve stone and complete landscape and garden projects.