Hirokazu Kosaka
Buddhist Priest and Master Artist
“I arrive at my family home where my father greets me from his garden. He points to the upper corner of the eaves of the house. There I perceive the spider, which I have known from my childhood. My grandfather told me once that this spider hails from a line of spiders that can be traced to a 17th-century ancestor. He then tells me that this spider web is both his home and a trap.”
Biography
Born in Japan, Kosaka is an ordained Shingon Buddhist priest, a master of the art of Japanese archery, as well as the Master Artist in Residence of the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center. After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1970, he continued to study in the fields of esoteric Buddhist art. He has been actively advocating Japanese culture and art at JACCC since 1983.