Professor Gunji is the director of Japan House and an Associate Professor of Japanese Arts & Culture in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a full professor of the Ikenobo Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) School in Japan and Chapter President of the Illinois Prairie Ikenobo Ikebana. She holds a Tea Ceremony teaching degree from the Urasenke Tea School, and also holds a teaching degree of Japanese classical dance. She teaches the following classes for the University of Illinois: Tea Ceremony and Zen Aesthetics, Ikebana, the Art of Arranging Flowers, and Campus Honors Program Seminar: Rigidity and Flexibility in Japanese Arts.

Professor Gunji has also developed several websites:
Nihonkan: www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse
Chado-The Way of Tea: www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse/tea
Kankonsousai: www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse/kankonsousai
Through Flowers: www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse/staff/kgunji/ikebana

Kimiko Gunji
University of Illinois Japan House
2000 South Lincoln Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61802
tel: 217 333 8474
email: kimiko@uiuc.edu