Day 1 of the postcard collection event

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The whole venue looked so cute and enjoyable.  Visitors were enjoying seeing the beautiful postcards and other goods.

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I wrote “May the delight of calligraphy be in your daily lives” on the signboards for my calligraphy.  The phrase was my late teacher’s motto for his life.  And now it is I that has been trying hard to realize the above motto.

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Also, I think I must write here that I am very grateful to the staffers of the event for displaying the paper fans with my calligraphy so gracefully and beautifully.  It made me realize that I still have a long way to go to learn how to present my calligraphic works.

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A very good friend of longtime from high school days sent me a big box of a variety of roll cakes.

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Now, as I am grateful to her I wrote 感謝 “sense of gratitude” to show thanks.

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The cakes are so cute, I couldn’t help decorating them with fruits and colored paper.

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River in the mountains

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It is only the first line of a poem from the ancient China that I found while searching for a material for my calligraphy by a keyword of midsummer.

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The line roughly means “the river of clear water flows meandering widely just as it holds the village.”

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When I read this, I remembered the house in the mountains of my distant relatives which is just like this phrase.

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When I was a child my grandpa and my parents took me there several times.  It was a long trip taking a whole day and I got completely tired when we reached that house where my grandpa was born and raised.

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These days, the same trip takes much shorter thanks to the newly built tunnels and roads.

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I am going to ask the main staffer of the event to use these as signboards of my section.

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“May the delight of calligraphy be in your daily lives”.

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My first calligraphy teacher held up this motto all his life.  However, it was later in my life that I knew about it.

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These postcards with my calligraphy will make the main feature for the exhibition I will be taking part in for the first time.

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I think “calligraphy on postcards” is the excellent example of experiencing arts in everyday life.

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These are my new calligraphy works on paper fans that are for the exhibition I will be taking part in for the first time.

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I found it very intriguing that this shiny picture frame for postcard size works has a name “hydrangea”.

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Now, I decided to ask to use this frame to display my work of the Chinese character “light” both in modern and ancient forms as an example of my typical touch at the coming event.

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It has been raining quite heavily these couple of days in Kyoto.

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The hydrangeas in my garden and the gardens of neighborhood houses as well are beautifully blooming against the rain, though.

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Oh, hydrangeas/

The house is now/

Without father and mother/

Translated and calligraphy by Chio

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The lower part of the photo shows my old work, “fresh wind”.

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The upper part shows a paper fan and a postcard with the letter “wind” in modern form written in dark ink and ancient form of the same letter in light ink.

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I desperately want to go out into new places and meet with new people.

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