Taki Kitamura: The road less traveled leads to a state of grace.

In this sixth episode I sat down with Taki Kitamura who is the owner of State of Grace tattoo located in San Jose California.  In this installment, Taki and I discuss his experiences as a Japanese born American that was accepted into a traditional Japanese tattoo family by a world renowned tattoo master.  We explored how this experience, juxtaposed against his formal education, further developed his understanding of culture, social etiquette, as well as transcending him beyond anything he had previously imagined possible not only as an artist, but now as a master passing those important lessons onto his apprentice.