Hitoshi Nakazato (Japanese: 中里斉; 1936–2010) was a Japanese-born American painter, printmaker, muralist, and educator.
The formative childhood memories of rows of dyed fabrics hanging to dry influenced his later works.
He then graduated at Tama Art University in Tokyo, majoring in Western Painting in 1960; there he studied under Shosuke Osawa.
After he returned to Japan to become a professor at the Tama Art University,[3] and assist in Komai Tetsuro's printmaking classes.
At the time the Tama Art University faculty included, Yoshishige Saito, Jiro Takamatsu, Tono Yoshiaki, Lee U-Fan, Nakahara Yusuke, and Haryu Ichiro.
Nakazato left Tama Art University in the wake of the student uprising and returned to the United States.
He received an award from the Japanese Minister of Education for a work he contributed to The 5th Japan Art Festival Domestic Exhibition.