The 1st of September NION WEEK will start. This is a 7-day festival where they celebrate a "diverse music & art, sake & food, workshop & crafts inspired by Japanese culture". I will be giving a calligraphy workshop during this week. This is for all levels and we will write a kanji in three styles, Kaisho, Gyosho and Sosho. If you have your
I will be giving a workshop at TYPO Berlin 2018 in May. This is a big event for typographers and I am very happy to have this opportunity. I'm curious how professional typographers and calligraphers react to the oriental calligraphy. I just hope that everyone has a good time and take something new to home. Here is the
It was in February, a cold rainy day, I had a filming session. This was for a commercial for a robotic company. Directed by a French director Pierre Puget, we were in a warehouse. By the time I arrived, it started to snow. I was one of the human professionals whom a learning robot challenges. micropsi
26th of January, we had the opening night for out exhibition, Zen -One Way of Life- at Atelier für Photographie in Berlin. This was our third year to have an exhibition here. And like every year, the gallery gave us such a family, cozy feelings. Flower arrangement of Klaus Krämer perfectly expressed our theme. It's hard for
Hello, it´s been a while since I last posted. But I´ve been working, just have had a technical problems… I am having an exhibition this year too with my students. The theme of this year is Zen. This is one of the themes my students are very interested in and also, while we were investing, I´ve
There are Hyakunin Isshu 12 love poems from ancient Japanese poets for 2017. Each poem has a number and you can search the meaning in the internet. As all calendars are hand written, there are limit in the quantity. Hope you like them. Price : 25€ + shipping Payment method : Paypal or bank transfer If
The 10th of November was the opening night of our exhibition, Hyakunin Isshu". It was the second time we exhibited at Atelier für Photographie. This year, we had a flower arrangement in action, a performance and a book presentation. It was nearly two years ago when I decided to have a Hyakunin Isshu exhibition and this is a
I like to invite you to our exhibition, "Hyakunin Isshu – 100 Gedichte von 100 Dichtern-". This is the second exhibition at the Atelier für Photographie and this year, we have a new member for the kids´ class. The project started last year. I have picked Hyakunin Isshu as a theme because not only it´s a famous collection of
"Shiawase (Happiness)" "Kokoro shizuka nareba sunawachi mi suzushi" (When your mind is calm, your body feels cool) (Tea zen word for August) "Satori (Enlightment)" "Kokorozashi wa senri ni ari (Energetic soldier will keep his high spirit even when they are old)"
From the 1st to the 8th of March this year, there was the 44th International Calligraphers Association Exhibition at Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo, which 5 of my students and I participated. They worked very hard and we are all happy with the result. One of them even received a award of "creative calligraphy". When I sent him
