A couple of decades ago, who would have imagined this event be so big in this country?

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I posted a new video on my YouTube channel that I newly set up.

Check this and enjoy my calligraphy!

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For, like the last one, this one shows how letters are being born out of ink, a brush, paper and an artist’s arm.

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This brilliant device will certainly show you the essence of calligraphy.

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This phrase is made up of two characters “water” and “stream”.

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A very important, dear friend of mine from Poznań, Poland praised the movement of my arm likening it to something flowing on the stream of water right after my calligraphy performance in the opening of the exhibition, TRZY RZEKI 2017 KYOTO POZNAN https://wp.me/P2EZhA-2dn.

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She said the movement of my arm was so smooth and elegant that it looked like something quietly flowing on a stream of water, however, I did not know exactly how I could respond to her comment and to my regret, I just mumbled some meaningless words in my mouth.

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After returning to Kyoto, I reported this little story to my present calligraphy teacher, and she what said was “You should have just said ‘Thank you very much’, because comparing your arm movement to water streams or something dancing in the air is THE compliments of highest grade!”

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The photo shows one corner of the exhibition, TRZY RZEKI 2017 KYOTO POZNAN, held in Poznań, Poland in November 2017.

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Because both my first calligraphy teacher, the late Mr. Akiyama Kodo (秋山公道) and my mother were born in the year of the dragon, one of the twelve old Chinese zodiac signs, the letter dragon (龍) is my favorite.  Here I added another letter “flying” (飛) to the letter “dragon”.

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Looking back at the event, now I think I may have been turning to those two people closest to me at the unconscious level, trying to win their support for the success of this exhibition, a very important occasion in my career as a calligrapher.

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Since then, I have been more than grateful for having opportunities to perform calligraphy demonstration a couple of times while I stayed in the city of Poznań.

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It is a passage from a poem of ancient China that expresses the scene of the autumn found everywhere and a cool, pleasant breeze is blowing all around.

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And the line goes on to say it is just like the moment of your obtaining enlightenment or spiritual transcendence.

That is, just like the clear fall sky, your future prospect on life will take shape at a breath.

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And here again, I chose the letter, autumn, in the vertically reversed form.

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I added a new video on my YouTube channel that I newly set up.

Check this and enjoy my calligraphy!

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For, this one shows how letters are being born out of ink, a brush, paper and an artist’s arm.

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This brilliant device will certainly show you the essence of calligraphy.

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Here is a brief passage from an ancient Chinese poem that expresses a woman’s beauty.

“When smiling, she is a flower close to your eyes.”

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What is truth?

Truth is what?

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The photo shows “Truth” by my first calligraphy teacher, the late Mr. Akiyama Kodo (秋山公道) who was a distinguished calligrapher.

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I wonder what he intended to express.

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I have been wondering whether people’s speech exactly reflect their minds or the opposite.

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Come to think of it, this “wondering” of mine is not something new at all.

I have been wondering in this way as long as I remember.

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This is a quite well-known haiku by Basho (松尾芭蕉), one of the most popular haiku poets in early Edo period in Japan.

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Apparently, my most important friend as to my career as a calligrapher likes it, because he quoted it in his recent message to me.

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However, my biggest interest and what I wanted to show the readers here is the structure of the Chinese character for “autumn”.

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The letter has two parts, in other words it can be vertically divided into two parts.  And we usually write it just the opposite way from how I did here.  However, what did here is never a mistake.

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In short, when it comes to writing some Chinese characters, it doesn’t matter which way you put the two parts, that is, it isn’t very strictly defined which part should be right and which one should be put left side.

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To sum up, concerning how Chinese characters should be written, there is much wider latitude than people would usually expect.

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On this road/

No one will follow me/

In the autumn evening/

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Here is a new video on my YouTube channel that I newly set up.

Check this and enjoy my calligraphy!

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This is another piece exhibited at the third exhibition of Yushokai held in July, 2015, sort of a medley of my works on thin strips of paper called tanzaku with haiku and tanka as motifs.

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Maybe I just wanted to look like a highly sophisticated women to do something like this at that time.

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I found this from an anthology of Zen philosophy phrases.

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“To surmount the dualistic thinking pattern that all of us tend to fall into.”

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“Life or death”  “To do or not to do”  “Yes or no”  “Good or bad”  “Joy or sorrow” …

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And the phrase recommends us to try to enjoy being sort of “indefinite”.

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However, I just wonder if that is possible at all.  For, there are so many things to worry about in my life.

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One of my best friends from high school days visited me again with delicious dishes and good homemade cakes as well, this time.

I intended to take a nap/
But next thing I know/
I was baking a cake/

Translation and calligraphy by Chio

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The task for today’s practice session was to write on a silk cloth.

And it is supposed to be an emblem, an oriflamme or a banner of my studio.

However, I am helplessly poor at sewing and I am not sure how it would turn out.

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Why do we feel something creepy out of this beautiful flower?

Message/

From underground/

Spider lilies/

Translation and calligraphy by Chio

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It is essentially important for us, I am sure, to eat tasty dishes.

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And the timing was amazingly right!  A very good and longtime friend of mine came with her homemade dishes, which made me so happy because she is quite a cook.

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According to the old lunar calendar, we are now in the last stage (out of three) of the autumn season.

The photo shows the result of my copying practice of the work by my first teacher, the late Mr. Akiyama Kodo 秋山公道.

If put into words/

It is only that/

Willow leaves are falling/

Translation by Chio

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… and happiness to be loved.

This is one of my past works that was exhibited at my first solo exhibition in the beginning of 2009.

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Actually it makes me embarrassed for two reasons.

(1) It gives out so much girlish taste.

(2) Calligraphic skill is so poor.

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However, it is very heartwarming for me, as well, for whenever I see the photo, it reminds me of the precious, fond memories of my friends, my parents and my teacher who were really supportive for the success of the exhibition.

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