Kodo Nishimura

Kodo Nishimura is a Japanese Buddhist monk born in Tokyo in 1989. He graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York. After graduating, he remained in the US to work as a makeup artist, where he participated in Miss Universe and Miss America pageants, receiving high praise from international media and Hollywood actresses. After returning to Japan, Nishimura trained to be a priest and was ordained into the Pure Land sect in 2015. He also holds makeup and LGBTQ awareness seminars including LGBTQ friendly make-up seminars. His lectures held at the United Nations Population Fund in New York, Yale University, and Zōjō-ji Temple have attracted wide coverage on the likes of NHK and the BBC.