1886
Born in Tokyo, Japan as the youngest son of four children
1910
Graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts studying western-style painting, and married his first wife, a school teacher, Tomiko Tokita next year
1913
Moved to Paris, Montparnasse
1914
‘Portrait de Messieurs Kawashima et Foujita' by Diego Rivera
1915
Worked as a tailor at Selfridges department store in London
1917
Met and married his second wife, a model, Fernande Barrey within two weeks
1919
Participated for the first time in the Salon d'Automne in Paris
1920
Became the toast of the 1920s Paris art
1921
Met his third wife, a model, Lucie Badoud, Foujita's primary muse nicknamed Youki ('snow' in Japanese)
1923
Painted the nude portrait of Youki with a cat, a significant work for Foujita
1925
Was awarded Chevalier in the order of the Legion of Honor in France, also knighted in the Order of Léopold 1er in Belgium
1928
Moved to a beautiful apartment in a fashionable area in Paris with Youki
1930
The discovery of the romance between his wife Youki and the poet Robert Desnos so upset him that he temporarily switched to a flamboyant expressionist style
1931
Set on a world tour with his fourth wife, a model, Madeleine Lequeux, and organized successful exhibitions on different continents
1935
Met the fifth and last wife, a waitress Kimiyo Horiuchi and entered into a love triagnle again, ended with Madeleine's unexpected death from an overdose of cocaine
1938
Received the order from the Ministry of the Navy to follow the fighting taking place in China as a painter attached to the armies
1939
Frightened by the warlike climate of Japan, Foujita returned to France to seek peace with Kimiyo
1940
The couple stayed in Paris for slightly more than a year, leaving France and returning to Japan in May 1940 after the German invasion of Belgium
1941
Became a member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts Teikoku Geijutsu, and was sent to French Indochina as a cultural attaché
1942
The Navy sent Foujita to the South Pacific front as an officer and leader of the group of official painters
1943
Fujita Tsuguharu, Death in the Battle of Attu (アッツ島玉砕)
1946
Received much public criticism after the war in Japan. Foujita defended himself by asserting that artists were pacifists in nature, but the Japan Art Association (Nihon Bijutsu-kai) listed him as an artist responsible for the war
1949
Got a visa to the United States and took up a teaching position at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in March 1949 stated that "it's not me leaving Japan, it's Japan that abandons me"
1950
Still labelled a fascist by artists in the United States, Foujita returned to Paris with his wife, and declared that he would never leave again
1951
Briefly became involved with costume design, creating the "Japanese" outfits for the May 1951 performance of Madame Butterfly at La Scala
1955
The couple obtained French citizenship
1959
Converted to Catholicism, the couple were baptized and religiously married with great pomp in Reims Cathedral
1960
Acquired a small house in the village of Villiers-le-Bâcle (Essonne), and undertook important works here
1963
Produced the illustrations for La Mésangère based on a text by Jean Cocteau
1964 – 1966
Foujita devotes all his energy to his last great work, the Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix Chapel in Reims. He designed the plans, in conjunction with the architect Maurice Clauzier, and the design of the stained glass windows, ironwork, sculptures and created a huge mural on all the interior walls.
1968
Struggled with cancer, Foujita finally died in in Zürich, Switzerland. He was first interred in the chapel, but Kimiyo had his body transferred to the Cimetière de Villiers-le-Bâcle, near her.