Yesterday my mother and I went to the exhibition venue held annually by my teacher.
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This year we turned in four pretty big works describing four kinds of flowers of the seasons.
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Everyone was very much impressed with my mother’s works.
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It seemed little attention was paid to my works of my own haiku about those flowers.
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This is my New Year resolution this year in connection with the full moon.
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“Be full of eagerness and also pliability”
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Hectic days around the New Year seemed to calm down.
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Now, it looks like I am getting older and tend to remember the old days more often than when I was younger.
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The photo shows one corner of the exhibition site of my first solo exhibition held at the beginning of 2009. The corner was dedicated to the works by my first calligraphy teacher (the late Mr. Akiyama Kodo 秋山公道) who passed away over 20 years ago at the age of 92.
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This photo fills my mind with good old memories about him and his wife (the late Mrs. Akiyama Seisetsu 秋山静雪); and their teachings and great love for me. I am ever so thankful to the couple who showed me this wonderful world of calligraphy that has been the core of my life ever since.
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This is just what I did at the usual grocery store.
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I bought a case goods of seven kinds of spring herbs/
Like I do when I buy breads/
(Translation and calligraphy by Chio)
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Then yesterday (January 7), my mother and I enjoyed the rice porridge containing those herbs as one of the customs of long tradition regarding the New Year.
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This is the calendar for the year 2020 at our entrance.
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Julia dream/
Dreamboat queen……/
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Good old days in my youth….
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My mother is playing a little child’s smile, at the table of the special dishes for the New Year, although they aren’t cooked in an orthodox manner. I just prepared them casually to please my mother.
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I think they brought back her old, fond memories of her childhood days.
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Mother smiles/
Special meal for the New Year/
Brought back her child’s mind/
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January 2 has been set for the day of the first calligraphy of the year.
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“Extreme happiness out of something extremely good happening in a good month (January)”
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I can’t wait to enter a new phase of my activity as a calligrapher.
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