Masamitsu SAITO 斎藤 正光

Leading authority and collector of Japanese Bamboo art baskets and a forest business owner. Following a record industry career, he managed performers through his company, Saito & Associates, Ltd., and headed PR branding and identity projects for the Hawks baseball team and the Japan Racing Association. Saito coordinated major Japanese bamboo art basket exhibitions (works of Iizuka Rokansai, the Lloyd Cotsen Collection, etc.) and other exhibition work involved the Musee du quai Branly in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in NY, and the Tomo Museum in Tokyo.