Mamiko Ikeda
        池田 麻美子

Mamiko Ikeda, from Tokyo, Japan, is a cultural educator and multi-media artist who mainly creates calligraphy art and prints.  She also enjoys composing music, playing guitar & sanshin (Okinawan instrument), and has created unique music & art collaborative pieces. Early in her life she began studying shodo (Japanese calligraphy) with her mother, master calligrapher Shotei Miura, as her guide. Later, drawn to the American West to study Native American culture and storytelling, she earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Denver in Liberal Arts, specializing in American Indian Studies. She aims to bring harmony to others through multiple creative and therapeutic uses of her hands, including art, music, and healing art.

She has published a Japanese calligraphy learning book co-authored with her mother; Japanese Calligraphy -The Basics in US and in Japan.

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​- Faculty member of Art Students League of Denver
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- Colorado Licensed Massage Therapist: Graduate of Denver Integrative Massage School
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- Member of Colorado Sumi-e Society
- Member of Colorado Okinawa Kenjin-kai
- Member and former staff member of Japan America Society of Colorado

**Please Note:  I am NOT an anime script writer (e.g. Nagasarete Airanto) who has a same name with me (and different kanji characters).  For those who have questions about the anime series,  I am not the one you are looking for, and cannot reply.  Thank you!