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Born in Osaka in 1973. Ikebana artist. In 1997, at the age of twenty-four, Katagiri became head of the long-established Misasagi School of ikebana in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Katagiri's style ranges from traditional ikebana to contemporary artistic approaches, and he collaborates with artists from many different fields.
In 2013-14, Katagiri moved for a year to Minami-Soma in Fukushima Prefecture, where he walked in places deeply scarred by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, single-mindedly creating flower arrangement from what he found growing there. These he turned into a photo book called "Sacrifice—The Ikebana of Regeneration, Offered to the Future." In the winter of 2020 he returned to Fukushima to photograph pillars of a barn that had been chewed on by cows left behind to starve to death when their owner was forced to evacuate due to the nuclear accident. Photographs from this series and from “Sacrifice” will be exhibited in KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021, along with his ikebana flower arrangements.