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Nagare Masayuki, born in Nagasaki Prefecture, studied under the auspices of a Zen temple in Kyoto, took courses in the traditional arts and crafts of Japan at Ritsumeikan University, and became an apprentice to a master swordsmith. His sculpture and garden designs were well-known in the decade following his first one-man show at Tokyo's Mimatsu Gallery in 1955. Leading western collectors including Blanchette Rockefeller and Philip Johnson purchased his work and from 1962-75 Nagare lived half of each year in the United States. Represented in New York by the Staempfli Gallery from 1963-79, Nagare created the largest free-standing stone sculpture of its time Cloud Fortress in 1970 to stand between the World Trade Center towers.
Among numerous one-man exhibitions in Japan are those at the Seibu Museum in Tokyo in 1977, the Umeda Modern Art Museum in Osaka in 1978, and at the Edobori Gallery in Osaka in 1981, 1985, 1990, and 1994. His work has appeared in many international exhibitions and is in corporate, museum and private collections worldwide. Nagare won the Japan Grand Prix of Art in 1974.