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Japanese theatre director (born )

Shōzō Satō (佐藤 昌三, Satō Shōzō, born May 18, ) 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.^[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, , 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 Arts in Toky