Fukita was born in Anan City, Tokushima Prefecture in 1926. After World War II, he did pioneering work in arts and crafts education as an elementary school teacher. Most of Fukita's original creative methods emerged from his experiments with art materials with children. He produced an original artistic world as he engaged in the art of printmaking as both an educator and an artist.
Fukita was awarded the Onchi Prize of the Japan Print Association, and he also received prizes at the International Triennial of Original Colored Graphic Prints, Grenchen, Switzerland and the Northwest International Print Exhibition. He won first prize in the print division at the Bienal de Sao Paulo in 1967 for Two Figures in a Field and Breaking Stars. After this he devoted himself to the production of his own prints, creating many large-scale works that expanded the possibilities of woodblock printmaking.
Fukita established the first college printmaking department in Japan at Tama Art University and became the first head of the department. He also served as president of the College Print Association, helping to lay the foundations of print education in Japanese colleges and universities and exerting an important influence on younger generations of printmakers. He is still active as director of the Japan Artists Association. - Setagaya Art Museum