About the Calligrapher
Koji Kakinuma (www.kojikakinuma.com) is a calligrapher/artist who is currently an artist-in-residence in the East Asian Studies Department at Princeton University.
He has long sought to break free from the strictures of his classical training and to express himself in innovative, experimental ways, amply shown by his performances that have produced monumental works with a large paint brush, just like the one he held at Princeton in December 2006.
Photo credit: Wes Shim
His most recent work, The Warrior Ideal was selected as the title artwork for the 2007 season of the Taiga drama series, Fūrin kazan.
