It’s an honored to receive the Special Honor Award for the preservation artistic and culturally significant craft techniques in Japanese Traditional Arts from the AAA Abstract Art Academy and to be awarded the International Professor License in cooperation with the European Union and UNESCO.

Certificate of the examination, special honours award and international professor licence certificate.
*Date of birth, born address and registration number withheld and watermarked for security reasons

This license qualifies me as an honorary lecturer from the Abstract Academy to speak at universities around the world as a professor of traditional Japanese arts.

TAT members had an opportunity to issue the international professor license by fate.

AAA Abstract Art Academy established in London, UK in 1970 opened as a virtual university in 2004 with 20 volunteer teachers based on the UNESCO curriculum.

The President of the Academy is a member of UNESCO and works with important European figures. Further details will be provided in a forthcoming book.

In modern times, many people involved in traditional culture face a lack of successors specifically Japan. One of the reasons for this is that today’s young people have a impression that traditional culture is plain and old-fashioned.

As an extension of the TAT Traditional Tattoo Association, which was set up to work with traditional tattooists around the world and to protect their own culture, we wanted to connect with craftspeople and others involved in traditional culture to help in some way.

So first we realised that we needed to change young people’s impressions of traditional culture in a positive direction.

Our immediate goal is to establish non-profit organisations of traditional culture in each of the TAT members’ home countries and to link them all together, including us.

I now live in the Netherlands, but when I am in Japan I trying to visit traditional craftspeople as possible and get them to join our activity.

In my personal opinion, a country’s spirituality resides in its traditional culture.

I wish that more people will come into contact with traditional culture, that people will regain their original spirituality and that the world will be a better place.