Shōzō Satō

Shōzō Satō (佐藤 昌三, ''Satō Shōzō,'' May 18, 1933 – May 4, 2025) was 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 was the founder and former director of Japan House, and a former artist-in-residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Satō was 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 was also a visionary theater director, most known for adapting Western classics into a traditional Japanese ''Kabuki'' style. Provided by Wikipedia