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
Sorry for my late update. First of all, thank to TYPO Berlin 2018 and the team. Secondary, thank to all the participants who have chosen to spend time with me during the event. Hope to see you again at another occassions. At last, thank to Malgosia who helped me for organising the workshop, making a beautiful booklet
Last weekend, the 8th and the 9th of December, the Japanischer Weihnachtsmarkt was held at Malzfabrik in Berlin. This is the original Japanese Christmas market and I've heard there is always a big queue to enter. But this year, I had been contacted by the organiser and had an opportunity of giving workshops at the
International Calligraphers Association Exhibition 2018 was held at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum from the 4th till the 12th of August. This is our third year and fourth exhibition since we started to participate. This year six of my students participated and two of them received an excellent work prize! I've also received an excellent work prize this
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
