月別アーカイブ: 2019年11月

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I posted a new and fifth video on my YouTube channel (chio_art) that I newly set up.

Check this and enjoy my calligraphy!

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For, you will enjoy witnessing how characters are born out of a brush, ink and an artist’s arm with this amazing device by my precious friend.

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The content is my Tanka, a Japanese style poem consists of 31 syllables about my mother’s hometown.  I go there twice a year in spring and fall to visit her family’s grave.  And I am going to visit it this weekend.

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In the spring sunlight/

Only dusts are dancing in the air/

What never changes/

Is Mother’s hometown/

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Hurray for friendship, again!

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I am so happy to shout “Hurray for friendship!” again.

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A good old friend of mine from high school days came to my house with delightful presents, some calligraphy utensils some of which are from China the destination of her last trip.

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Quiet, fulfilling time of grinding an inkstick/

Winter begins /

Translation and calligraphy by Chio

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I just don’t understand why so many people want to use chemically synthesized ink.

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Hurray for friendship!

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The photo shows my little and early year-end gifts for my dear friends I met in Poznań, Poland at the occasion of TRZY RZEKI 2017 KYOTO POZNAN held in November 2017.

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The event surely broadened my horizon of life, however, the most important thing about it for me was I met many special friends there.

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These are very small folding screens made of thick paper for calligraphy and that suit to be used on tables or racks.

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I wrote a haiku about warm friendship on them.

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Friendship gives/

Emotional support/

Even winter feels warm/

Translation and calligraphy by Chio

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Not yet begun

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This was exhibited in the First Exhibition of Yushokai held in July 2011.

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For this piece, I quoted a passage from Ms. Yukari Ishii’s blog, which unfortunately she erased completely some time ago.  She is a super popular astrologist and writer and writes on many subjects other than horoscope reading.

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The passage can be roughly translated…

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“Misty kind of non-entity that might be going to be a river but forms nothing yet”

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In those days, I was into using very light colored ink.

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YouTube channel

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

Check this and enjoy my calligraphy!

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For, you will plainly see how Japanese style calligraphy is done.

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Here I chose the letter絹 (silk), just because it is the first letter of my mother’s name.

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And as for the style, I chose the cursive style, for I think it emphasizes the softness of the letter.  At the end of the video, the cameraman urged me to show the result, so I did that.  However, that is not a common practice.

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Develop my talent?

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For the first time in a long time, my first calligraphy teacher, the late Mr. Akiyama Kodo (秋山公道) appeared in my dream.  This time he was accompanied by his wife, the late Mrs. Akiyama Seisetsu (秋山静雪), an exceptional calligrapher herself.

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Somehow I was the only student at their school in the dream and I was practicing the letter 超 meaning exceed, beyond, surpass or over ….

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In that dream, they didn’t say anything but just kept staring at me.

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Now I wonder what this dream implies …

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Does the couple who loved me as if I were one of their granddaughters want me to go beyond something?

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Do they want me to obtain more skill and reach a higher and more sophisticated level as a calligrapher?

 

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Something is missing

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I tried to create a new version of “calligraphy on simple postcards”, this time combining letters used in modern days and my favorite, ancient letters.

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However, the results don’t look good enough and I wondered how and where I did wrong and found out there was way too little blank space.

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Now, I am determined to try to make better works; for three reasons,

(1) I love any kind of combination,

(2) ancient letters naturally are closer to “pictures”, origin of letters and

(3) these small simple works of art may realize the ideal “Joy of calligraphy in daily lives” held out by my first calligraphy teacher the late Mr. Akiyama Kodo (秋山公道).

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Autumn butterflies

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Even when they land somewhere/

Autumn butterflies/

Keep moving their wings up and down/

Translation and calligraphy by Chio

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I wasn’t sure whether these were butterflies or moths, though.

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Here again, I chose the letter for “autumn” in the uncommon form.  In short, I like the letter written in this vertically reversed structure.

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