勅使河原宏

Hiroshi Teshigahara was an avant-garde Japanese filmmaker. He was born in Tokyo, son of Sofu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sogetsu School of ikebana. He graduated in 1950 from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and began working in documentary film. He directed his first feature film, Pitfall, in collaboration with author Kōbō Abe and musician Tōru Takemitsu.