Personal Life
Nakaya married twice. His first wife was the daughter of Sakutaro Fujioka (藤岡作太郎, Fujioka Sakutarō?), a literary historian who taught at Tokyo Imperial University. She died in Japan of diphtheria while Nakaya was studying at King's College. He remarried in 1932. His daughter Fujiko Nakaya, born in 1933, is an artist known for her fog sculptures. He had two other daughters, Sakiko and Miyoko Nakaya.
In his later life, Nakaya was an accomplished sumi-e artist.
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