Hideta Kitazawa

Hideta Kitazawa is a Noh maskmaker and second generation traditional woodcarving artist. After majoring in forestry studies at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, he studied woodcarving with his father Ikkyo Kitazawa, as well as Noh maskmaking. In 1997,he was awarded the Outstanding Young Artisan Award for Tokyo,and in 2003, the Yokohama Noh Theatre Director’s Prize. His work was commissioned for Japan’s Imperial Household Agency’s recent imperial succession ceremonies. Internationally, he has demonstrated maskmaking  techniques and exhibited widely, including at Singapore’s Asian Civilizations Museum, London’s V&A Museum, Paris’ maison de la Culture du Japon, and Wurzburg’s Siebold Museum. He taught maskmaking at the University of Hawaii, North Carolina School of Arts, Southern Methodist University and The University of The Incarnate Word Texas. In 2015, the USITT (US institute of Theatre Technology ) invited him as international guest speaker at  their annual conference in Cincinnati. His masks are in the permanent collections of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the Oriental Museum of Durham University, and Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney　　  

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