I have been repeating my motto, “pleasure of calligraphy in daily life”. Still, I have always been trying and selecting. These are “bathroom” and “kitchen”.
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If you have a favorite character or phrase that you would like Calligrapher Chio to write, please let her know by sending it (them) to her address, chio_art@yushokai.com.
One morning in summer two or three years ago, an important friend of mine in Poland, an experienced teacher at an elementary school, who knows I have some skill of Japanese style calligraphy asked me to write “never war” in Japanese because she hoped to use it in her classes. Thus, I wrote “戦争反対, or pacifism or anti-war spirit”, which I used to be very familiar with when young. Then, I thought I would produce one more work “平和, or peace” to add a brighter tone.
I sent these pieces to her and later I learned she actually used them in her classes and introduced those works in many ways, which made me feel as if I were walking on air.
In those days, I had never imagined I would feel so much intense reality about these phrases as I do now.
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If you have a favorite character or phrase that you would like me to write, please let me know by sending it (them) to my address, chio_art@yushokai.com.
