When Isamu Noguchi designed the Shin Banraisha and garden for Keio University, he also created four sculptures -Mu, Gakusei, Wakai Hito, and Lunar- to be placed there. These represent the various directions he experimented with in his early period while forming his own distinct style. Although, in these works, Noguchi has incorporated different aspects of Japanese art, his main source is still modern European sculpture, especially the works of Brancusi. After the end of War II, however, when his relationship with his family and the Japanese people improved, Noguchi became even more attuned to Japanese art and further developed the ideas he had explored in Mu and the garden at Keio University. The concepts in Mu have been passed on to his circular sculptures, like Sun and Void, while the idea of the garden has been continued in the UNESCO gardens in Paris and the indoor Tengoku which Noguchi recently created for the lobby of the Sogetsu SchoOl of Flower Arrangement Building in Tokyo. Thus, the works at Keio University were made at an important turning point in the young Noguchi's career. In addition, they are memorable as well for having been the first to add a Japanese element to the concepts of modern European sculpture and for having spurred on the development of Isamu Noguchi's art.