Happy New Year, everyone. I do hope this year to be a little calmer and kind to us. Here is a New Year's card I wrote for 2021. I have decided 心静, kokoro shizuka means the status of having a calm mind. Our surroundings may be chaotic but let's try to stay calm. Perhaps clear and tranquil mind could
This is a collaboration with a Mexican composer, Mario Hernández for Tanabata Festival on the 7th of July. It's an old legend in China and Japan and is the only day when Orihime (Vage) and Hikoboshi (Altair) can cross Amano-gawa (the Milky Way) only if the sky is clear. Mario has told me about his
On the 21st of February 2020, we had the vernissage at Atelier für Photography. This was our fourth calligraphy exhibition at this place and as always, it gave us a warm and welcomed feeling. Despite of the short notice, there were a lot of visitors from 3-year-old children and the place became lively. This year's theme
Sosekido school calligraphy exhibition will start on the 21st of February. This is our annual event which my students participate. The theme is "Dancing Brush/Tanzende Pincel" and we wrote German poems in hiragana as if the brushes dance on the paper. The exhibition will be held at Atelier für Photographie in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. The vernissage is on the 21st February at 19hr. It'd
Happy New Year!! あけましておめでとうございます！ This is a year of mouse (子/ne) and to be precise, 庚子 (kanoene). 庚 is one of 十干 (jikkan/Heavenly Stems) that are a Chinese system of ordinals which has been used since c. 1250BC. In Japan, calendar is made of a combination of jikkan and junishi (十二支/Chinese zodiac and there are 12 animals). Apparently
We have participated the annual exhibition at the International Calligraphers Associarion in Tokyo 2019. This year one of my studetns has won an excellent work. I am very happy and proud as a teacher. I have also received an excellent work prize, which I am happy about too. Here are the works we have
Here are the four autumn images for your computer screen background. The word on the leaves is 紅葉, coloured leaves in tensho style. Hope you find one you like. How to download? : A wallpaper image will onpen in the new window. : Right click and choose "Save image as…" and save it in your computer.
As a part of the exhibition "Storytelling", I had a workshop. Atmosphere was very relaxed and nice. It was a mixuture of new people and people who have been in workshops before. Everyone picked their favourite words and wrote them in ancient letter, kodaiji (古代字). Kodaiji is one of the styles used for seals in Japan nowadays but it has
Hello all. Finally the technical problem has been repaired and I can update my activities. The year started with our anual school exhibition. This year's theme was "Storytelling" which was held at Atelier für Phtographie. We wrote ancient stories in ancient letters and the current letter. At the opening party, all of us wrote the word 話, hanashi, story in
Guerrilla DJ Kaya, aka KAYAKA who I have some performances done with has just released a CD, Zuwaigani from the Zeromoon Records. I have collaborated on the cover design as a calligrapher. My pieces were beautifully montaged by a graphic designer @is_marigrafica. This is a digital album and you can listen and purchase from HERE. You can enjoy
