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Shōzō Satō

Shōzō Satō (佐藤 昌三, ''Satō Shōzō,'' born May 18, 1933) is an artist, author, calligrapher, playwright, and a professor emeritus of the College of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the founder and former director of Japan House, and a former artist-in-residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

He is an internationally renowned master of Japanese traditional arts, such as Ikebana, Japanese Calligraphy, Sumi-e, Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese Traditional Dance, and Japanese Tea Ceremony. He is also a visionary theater director, most known for adapting Western classics into a traditional Japanese ''Kabuki'' style. Provided by Wikipedia