ARTIST

SAKUHO ITO

Sakuho Ito was born in 1989 in Shimane, Japan. After graduating from Musashino Art University in 2014, she began her artistic career. Using washi, a cultural heritage of Japan, as her primary medium, she incorporates metal, earth, mineral pigments, and other materials into the paper through a unique hand-papermaking process. Rooted in her lifelong “view of life and death,” her work explores the themes of traditional “worship(reihai)” and the “Japanese spirituality(Nihonteki Reisei)” inherent in natural materials.
She approaches her art as an act of worship, drawing inspiration from Shinto philosophy to create abstract expressions. In 2023, her work “Worship of Life” was dedicated to Izumo Taisha. In 2024, her “Worship in Blue” series became part of the permanent collection at a newly opened luxury hotel in Azabudai, Tokyo, further expanding her presence both domestically and internationally.