Toshiyuki Tanaka, Japanese born in Tokyo in 1960, fugaku performance artist, coordinator of the Jardim dos Ventos, vice-president of Associação Brasileira de Nôgaku, seitai-ho and do-ho teacher graduated at the Body Education Research Institute of Tokyo, and teacher of Faculdade de Filosofia, Comunicação, Literatura e Artes at PUC São Paulo, with the degree of Notório Saber in Performance Art.

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Toshi studied with his father, Keijiro Tanaka at Shodo Akitsu School and Hitsu Zen Do.

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Vendemiatti has been a long time student of Toshi Tanaka, and has also participated in Keijiro Tanaka's sho workshop and attended his sho exhibition, in Tokyo in 2013.