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Shōzō Satō
Japanese theatre director (born 1933)
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.
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He is the founder and former director of Japan House, and a former artist-in-residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.[1]
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.[1]
Biography
Satō was born in Kobe, Japan on May 18, 1933, and grew up in Kamakura.
He obtained a degree in Fine Arts from Bunka Gakuen College in Tokyo, studied music at the Tokyo Seisen School, studied theatre at the Toho Academy of Performing