It is such a pleasure for me to announce that I got an opportunity to set up a booth at “Kyoto ART craft market 2020 Spring” to be held from Friday, March 13 through Sunday March 15 at THE MUSEUM OF KYOTO.
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Here are its official poster for announcement and the photo of my work to be printed on the handouts.
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Please come visit my booth on the Sanjo Street, Kyoto.
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The photo shows the tasks for today’s practice session.
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It is always extremely difficult for me to unlock the desire for expression.
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Some people are keen on getting to observe meteor showers in the cold season.
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I was like them to some extent until a few years back.
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However, these days it seems just impossible for me to stay awake that far into the night.
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Thus, the scene in this haiku expresses my little yearning.
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Huge tree/
Remaining silent/
Into it, shooting stars rush/
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Translation and calligraphy by Chio
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The photo shows one of my pieces displayed at my first solo exhibition at the beginning of 2009 that enjoyed quite a popularity.
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The meaning of this phrase is often interpreted as “just to rely on others and do nothing spontaneously”.
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And it is often pointed out that the interpretation above is wrong.
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The phrase originates in Buddhism. Today, with some research, I learned that it very roughly expresses the supreme power of Buddha that will give people ultimate happiness and satisfaction breaking the darkness of mind that everyone shares.
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“Good timing and intuition”
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These are the two most important elements in life (quoted from someone’s remark).
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I posted a new video on my YouTube channel (chio_art).
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It has no back-ground music like many other videos on this channel, but you can hear some conversation between the cameraman and me.
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So, some viewers may think it is like a making-of video of a movie. Actually, a friend of mine said so.
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However, I decided to post it on my channel, because when I rechecked, I found no major mistakes about the motion of calligraphy.
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So, please enjoy the movement of the calligrapher (me)!
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The material is my own haiku.
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As I wrote before and many other times, I love drawing fortune at shrines. The photos show two of the written oracles I got at New Year’s visits to shrines this year.
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One is “Excellent luck” and the other, “Little luck”.
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However, they have some comments in common, that is, “wait patiently for a little more until a great fortune to come”.
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I think I have waited for long enough now, though.
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The one I transcribed roughly means;
“I am glad to see a brightly lit road in the unclouded moonlight.”
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I made a visit to a fun event called “Art Marché” yesterday. It was my first time going there and I was really impressed with the young artists’ passion inside who participate in it regularly.
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Actually I was so impressed I felt even the coldness of the winter wind might go easier.
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The photo shows a knit hat I got there.
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Art marché/
Mollifies/
Even the winter wind/
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“Water birds float with nothing around a bleak sandbar.”
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A scene I found returning from the grocery store I frequent.
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People have long celebrated the day, January 15 as a kind of second New Year Day, because according to the lunar calendar, it marks the first full moon after the New Year Day.
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The well-known shrine in my neighborhood provides rice porridge cooked with azuki beans every year.
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I got some for my mother who will turn 92 in summer, because the porridge is supposed and expected to bring good luck to the elderly.
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I wrote “avoiding disaster”, “inviting happiness”, “health” and “longevity” for her.
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