Cicada

Cicada! have you run after it with a net in hand? Cicada and beetle are kings that kept entertaining me during summer holiday.

Cicada's buzz is not buzz. it is summer symphony or rain shower in woods.

Matsuo Basho, 17th haiku poet, made famous one, going like

'Silence, Cicada's voice, Sorbed into rocks' <- make sense?

Tips:

Body: Use the brush body so that you can get vague gradation naturally. It gives the cicada body color.

Eyes: The eyes of cicada is located on the edge of the body (or face). Make it the most black sumi ink.

Wings: Each cicada has different color wing. Some has dark brown one and some has trasparent one. I like to depict very soft thin wing here. Put very light sumi ink on the brush and draw softly.

Legs: black and thin

Cicada lives only seven days after the emergence. Before that it keeps sleeping seven years in the earth. wow

Sparrow Ink Drawing

Hi there.

Sparrows are very popoular here, but I haven't known much about them. You pay few attention things common around you. They have brown color feather which I haven't seen cute in childhood.

My reminds of sparrow is small, chattering, hopping and black spot on cheak. These four points compose the sparrow for me. If you share at least one of the impressions that I have, and I can depict my brain image on paper, this sparrow ink drawing would succeed.

Tips:

Head: The ink is not so black. The brush must lies until the table horizontal line. The top of the hair would touch the first on paper and draw back little like five mili-centimeter, then the whole hair touch the paper. The shape of the brush goes to the shape of sparrow's head. The gradation of the brush goes to the gradation of the head. The round shape of head looks like the kid sparrow.

Wash the brush and put very black ink on it, squeeze water out

Eye: The positon of eye is the center of the bay of the round head you dipict first. Sparrow's eye positions in the dark hair because of defense against the attack. In sumi-e drawing, the pursuit of reality would hide the eye in black ink sea in this case. We draw the south sphere of eye.

Beak: Continuouslly, the beak drawing. You need the brush twist around (or turn around??), I mean you hold the brush like when you use a fountain pen. The beak positions the first touch point of head.

Black spot: This is the most black part of sparrow drawing. The positon of spot is the most important part as well, in order for your sumi-e paiting to look like sparrow. The tip for it is that the base line of the spot must the same position of the head. The base of the spot separetes the head from the body.

Wash the brush. Put very light ink and squeeze the top the hair of brush to make it flat.

Body: The round stroke would give the light white feather. The breast position must be curved with this part.

Wash the brush. Put black ink and squeeze the hair to make it flat.

Feather: One of the failure reason for the sparrow ink drawing is too long and big feather. The feather can be 2 cm shorter than what you thought before starting to draw. 2 storkes is enough for the feather. Take breathe when the hair of the brsuh touch the paper and then sweep out. That generates gradation of feather. Sweep with quick.

Wash the brush. Put black ink and squeeze the hair to make it flat.

Tail: The tail is short as well. Sweep out stroke. The tail does  not need connect with the body.

Wash the brush. Put very black ink and squeeze thte water out of the hair.

Legs: To keep sparrow cute, the legs don't need the reality. The starting point to draw the leg is the white body line. The light ink and this time black ink will be blurred, the moment of which I love ! The back nail might be omitted. Please reference the below video and explanation photo. and if you have question, ask me thru facebook, twitter or youtube, etc.

The Who came to Tokyo ! at Budokan

My first memory to have the Who is the live tour album, 'Who's last', 1984. I saw that cover photo of buring the union jack and thought very cool. There is a record shop near Chiba station, where I grew up, 25 miles away from Tokyo, and that record shop sold lots of british records. Saturday afternoon, I quite often was there, and just looking for the analog records cover photos. I don't have enough money to buy one record every week. and I couldn't buy Who's last, because that was double records......

After high school, I got some CD of the Who, through friends or bought one and watched the Quadrophonia.. I like the British rock in my teens, and so did my friends. I had no friends to share the love for the british rocks in high school days, but there were lots in college.chose Brighton for the summer English study program. I stayed one month at a member of the 10CC house, who was living there.

then, The Who came to Tokyo ! they came four years back, but it was for the festival, this is the first time for them to be here as the tour...

I went to the Monday gig at Budokan, and that was fabirous. Mr.Townsent guitar was tight and Roger's voice was brilliant. Budokan is ten thousand capacity arena, much better expierience than Tokyo Dome that has fifty thousand capa. Stones, Bono, Bowie...the big name plays the big arena,,,, so was very lucky to see The Who's gig at such a just-fit place. It was the first time to see live show at Budokan since Tom Petty in the mid 90's. at that time, the clipping noise was hunging around a hole.

anyway, when the intro of Baba O'reily started, I shed tears. I couldn't help. Baba O'Reily expierience was much more fabrious even than Stones, who is my favorite. It reminds me of the Michel Gun Elephant at Atlanta. I am not big fun of them, but I was moved the fact that Japanese rock band coming around the gig tour in the States where they have no fame. I felt their sprit of keeping move on.

The Who makes me overflowing tears, but not Stones. I guess the reason for that rely deeply on the diffrence of their rylics and music style. I like stones rock frame of the american blues and country mixture. Who is not like that, their music remains the great britain green grass hills long under the grey sky and the New Castle dizzy protest. That young straight Mods rythm beat me. Stones has rolling, but Who is shaking. 

After the show,  I listen the CD of Baba, but not so good as live show... nothing is better than going live show.

The audience there was relatively old gen. skewed, assumingly having waited this first who live here sinve the teenage  waste  land.  The guy sitting nex to me surely bought a ticket from my friend at the previous show on Sunday, Saitama arena, who was supposed to come with me this night. He is totally normal salary man no one would think him of rock fun. Budokan was filled with guy in normal in daytime, but still 'need to fight' fire in mind. The neighbour guy got MD and recorded the live. I finger-whistled quite often so that I can recgnize in case I got the bootleg.

Nov. 17, 2008  Budokan Set list

SE: Jean Genie (Bowie)

Can't Explain
The Seeker
Anyway Anyhow Anywhere
Fragments
Who Are You
Behind Blue Eyes
Relay
Sister Disco
Baba O'Riley
Eminence Front
5:15
Love Reign O'er Me
Won't Get Fooled Again
My Generation
Naked Eye

Encore:
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey
Sparks
See Me Feel Me
Tea and Theatre

Lotus Sumi-e Paiting

Hi, there,

.Have you seen lotus before??

The lotus is really huge and elegant flower. It is tall and its leaves are big as well.
It is until the first of August that the lotus bloom on the surface. There are lotus full over the water on the lake in Ueno, Tokyo.
Most of the lotus sumi-e drawing is depicted by the line. but I wanted to draw this flower's meteculaous shading with one stroke. work well??

tips:

the petal is reall big and round deep. You need to depict it with the ratio of front part and back part.

The pistil part would be better drawn the most black. and hairs surrounded.
here's what I saw in the summer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sumi-e/2...

Shrimp Ink Drawing

I  like shrimp much as food. Shrimp soup, shrimp tempura, shrimp fried rice. It would cost more if you want to add shrimp on a normal fried rice, but I would choose to have shrimp in it.

When I was in Texas, I liked boiled chili crawfish(w/t beer), crawfish looked like shrimp, but it was the first time for me to eat crawfish.

■Tips:

Head: The brush needs to lie, and the top of brush will depict the top of head.

Body: first big later smaller

Tail: Press the hair of brush to make it flat and wipe water out of the brush a little. The hair of top flat of brush will express the notch of tail

Eye,feet: Brush must shape tight and black ink needed

Barbels: Brush -> the same as eye

Bodhidharma Sumi-E Drawing

I was believing Bodhidharma was Japanese. Because I played a game called "dharma-san" a lot. This is said "tag" in my dictionary. (as always no idea for the right words) anyway, everybody knows a tag called dharma-san ga koronda. and lots of designed dharma figure coloured red are here. even I loved to have a "dharma box lunch" at Takasaki station which was on the way to the country house. It futures the dhrma face(see the link). So my image of dharma is from this box lunch and thought evry kind person like a priest in the cinema.

The real bodhidharma was not like today's deformed one. He was very stubborn and severe. He was from India, so he got large eyes and long nose. I was surprised at Hakuin or Sesshu bodhidharma paintings because they have very severe dharma san.

Tips:

1. Front neckband is the key to draw the tradional asian figure wearing kimono style clothes. I made the hard line first which was inspired by the Hakuin's line and Sesshu's cave rock line.

2. First, light black (more water than usual) is on the eyebrow, then before getting dry fully, put more black stroke added. So you can get some depth, profound expression.

Mount Fuji Sumi Drawing

I was reading an art design article who are brushing thier clothes and she said, "I want to wear a dress drawn mountain Fuji." wow

anyway, Mt.Fuji can be seen from most of Tokyo and its surpurve like Chiba or Saitama. Since Tokyo is vegy vast flat land near the sea, I am not like seeing mountains everyday. So I don't have any natural respect for the mountain rather than sea or river...

We can find the word "Fuji" in many Japanese. The popular TV station is called "Fuji TV", lots of "Fuji-mi", meaning "see Fuji" (Fuji-mi Zaka -> the hill where you can see mt.Fuji),... I can think our ancesters have loved mt.Fuji.

I once climbed to the top of there to see the sun rise. After two hour way, the bus arrived at the half point to the top. It was around six o'clock in the evening. a walking thru the night until midnight. The sun rise from the top was exciting view. more than that I still remember the fun jumping down walk on the back way.

Tips:

1. Draw the mountains around Mt.Fuji. Mt. Fuji from Tokyo is seen like this. These mountains locate in Hakone area where good hot springs is. To draw mountans, you need lay the brush and move side, so that the thick sumi ink on the top of the brush can depict the ridge line and can express the vague cloud hiding part

2. The angle of mountain Fuji is needed to exaggerate so that anyone can understand what you draw. Start with thin line and at the middle of the ridge, push the brush and throw it down. The shaft of the brush and the line direction goes toward the same way whereas the surrounding mountains are drawn by the side slide.

3. The shade of the hill: first light move and push, then run.

please see the video and feel free to ask about darwing sumi-E   

Sumi-e Carp, Koi Painting Tips

Hi, there.

Carp... are you guys familliar with it? I saw them in the dirty river, "Kanda-river" in Tokyo downtown where I was raised. 

Carp is die-hard fish. It can live in such a dirty. It originated in China

This kind of carp tasted good for boiled(?)- sashimi, called Koi no Arai ("Arai" means washing) . Here's good site for carp recipe in English

Nishiki-goi, colourful ornamental carp, are one of items which reminds us of Japanese cerebrity life, was creative breeding work in sixteenth century in Niigata pref., the nothern area in Japan.

Nishiki-goi swims gourgeous like kimono girls. very fun to see.   

Some might hear about Chinese old saying, carp turns out dragon climbing the waterfall. We say To-ryu-mon, literery climb, dragon, gate, for the new comer contest. American Idle is kinds of to-ryu-mon of artists. 

I draw this inspired by the old sixteenth carp painting which I bought in London. The wild carp shapes not like glamorous body of nishiki-goi but dull bullet streamline. So does this carp.

Tips:

1. Two barbels

2. Eyes are small but there are circles around eyes.

3. Pectoral must be depicted precisely, because this is the key point of carp. Imagine the wing of birds.

4. Scales.... your choice. precise or smoothing. I say, just line it. then drip sumi-ink over.

Please click the imaeg above for other sumi-e works

Sumi-E Cherry Blossom Painting

Hi, there.

What flower do you have in mind on your home land?? I have cherry blossom, because it starts blooming in the spring, which  is not only the season for the sun, but for the new school year and fiscal year in Japan. I always remember the first day of elementary school where I could see the water pink colored cherry blossom over the school yard. That is what I recoginize the flower is beautiful. hhh Cherry blossom is the symbol of start, fresh and beautiful for me. How about you??

Tips:

Cherry blossom could be tough motif for some of you, especially the shape of each flower. Too round looks like the plum and too much oval looks  something diffrent. ONe of important technique of sumi-E is "omitting", "cut middle" or whatever you're saying (sorry, I have merely funny words). I mean, the cherry blossom has five piece of petal  but  you don't need paint all of that. Cut off the two, three is enough. "Realism is not that you depict correct but you think it correct."<- my policy (^_^);  The hair of brush must chopped in two so that you can get split top petal of cherry.

Then, pistel and stamen.Make solid black on brush. Take one breath moment when you put brush on paper and swing. It gives small black round and soft pistel right in the middl e of the flower.

The trunk: Take sumi-ink in the small plate and make thin black ink with water. Put the brush that ink and get solid black ink from the ink stone. Lay the brush horizontally on paper and pull down holding horizontal position.

Scar face on the trunk: Before got dry the trunk ink,  split the hair of bursh and get black ink, arc line gives like round trunk feeling.   

Brunch: Brucn got small rugged.

Small buds should be some of the top of brunch.. Enjoy...

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Sumi-E Snowfiled Paintng

Hello there.

It's been raining since this morning. I have been wondering since kids days the western people are walking in the rain without umbrella. This comes from some films or TV shows I saw in childhood. well, foreigners in Tokyo are seen rarely walking in the rain with no umbrella..

Tha last year when I played golf in the nice London surburb, my long time question happened to melt down. My guess is; when I started at the first hole, it was clear sky fine weather and England green hills are stretching out. It, however, started raining and was getting colder in the middle of the game. Then, when I got hole out, the blue sky returned over my head. ...hmmm I thought Europe (I know this expression huge...) especially England (I have not knowledge about Scotland or other places in GBR), the rain is falling in the short period. They know that it will stop raining soon.Therefore people don't need to bring umbrella.

In Tokyo, if it is raining in the morning, it will rain when you come back home. so unconsciously I take an umbrella when leaving home. Or, it starts raining during the day, I will buy a plastic umbrella($3-5). I know I need this all day.

Tips:

1. In sumi-E painting, the colour of the rice paper is the etreme white. The snowfield is expressed without no drawing, which means the snow will show up  the outline.

2. The creek muste be depicted the black which splush out the snow white.

3. Mind the contrast expression will work. See Rembrandt way of painting, he depicts the collar very white. It works to emphasize the face.

4. The black creek streak play a role which takes the viewing eye movement away to the far away mountains. It recalls viewers some memories.

Sumi-E Owl Painting

How's going??

Owl for Japanese is "Fukurou". Some loves the owl because "Fuku" reminds us of "Happiness"and collect the owl goods like sculpture or paintings of owl to wish their good fortune.

Also, the owl is thought of the gods of the wisedom. We have a famous cram school called Dr.fukurou school. I have seen so many oals which are drawn and painted mostly pretty.

I have a positive image on the owl. But, I happened to know that not so many area around the world has the same image about the owl. Let me know the owl legend in your place.

Tips:

1. To paint the feather of body, would be good way to twist and widen the hair of brush. Use this technique almost all process of painting the oal.

2. The face is round. Keep short strokes and shape the face round.

3. The beak is hard and solid, sticking solidly downward. the most black sumi-ink is needed.

Goldfish Ink Drawing Sumi-e

Kids here used to have goldfish breeding in an old brazier, which was dumped in a backyard. At the beginning of the summer vacation, they came to see goldfish and to give foods every morning. But when the summer has gone, they almost forgot about these tiny fish. And in the autumn festival season, they got fun for "Kingyo sukui", catch goldfish, but it didn't helo to recall their goldfish.. The next spring comes, they happened to find goldfish growing in mossed brazier. die hard fish.

How to draw goldfish with sumi ink.

Sumi-e is kind of vague art. You don't seek the reality as much as 3D motion pictures do like "Beowolfe". Sumi-e art has its own way to come across the actual fish, flower or animals. The way for it is omitness. When you see paintings, you figure out what it is with the reflection of your memory which you have seen. Each memory of goldfish would be different one another, so the omitness would show up different on the paper. My memory of goldfish is red and gold bodh and a long tail fin. I exggerate that part and omit to depict other part. If it still looks goldfish to you, it would be succesful. Sumi-e is not the mirror art at what you see, but the talking with your mind art. You don't need mind your goldfish looks like others, just listen your mind and take a stroke.   

Continue reading "Goldfish Ink Drawing Sumi-e"

Sumi-e Drawing Cosmos

How to draw cosmos with sumi ink. (click image left to see more sumi-e image)

Is there cosmos flower around you all?? It is cosmos and red maple leaves that reminds me of the autumn arrival. We have hit tune named "cosmos" in '70s. The Chinese charactor for cosmos is "cherry blossom of autumn". Cosmos is kind of flower we are familiar with. Few chances to see the real cosmos blooming in Tokyo life though...

Cosmos has bright colour flower with skinny line brunch. That gives us the impression of fleeting in the wind, a littel girl lingered in the field. It might be the reason of this flower popularity.

However, the flower is thick and the edge of flower split in two.

You might split the brush top or draw twice to depict this thick flower. The pistil is large and round shape in the center.

The diversity of the angle of flower face will tell us the wind blowing and the skinny flower are flickering. The angle of face is expressed by the length of each flower.

For face up : short down, long up,  Face right :  left long, right short, Face down : short up long down.

One flower must finish to draw with one ink dip so that you can obtain the gradation. On one paper, you should put thick black flower and white flower as well.

You should express what you want to tell, with changing the angle and the density of each flower.

Los Angels Sumi-e Hybiscas

In the beginning of the summer season, just afeter the blue hydransia had finished its blooming, I found huge white flower on the street down the corner of my house. The rainy season smell was still floating in the air. This is like jellyfish swirling over there. Back in home and chcking the web site, the white large is a "cotton rose ", "confederate rose" or fuyou in Japanese.

The summer's gone. I saw a white flower on the top of a streching stalk beside a pavement near the office. This is called mallow, or aoi (ah-oh-ee).

Mallow is smaller than cotton rose and looking for the sunlight like small kids wants candy streching out on the tiptoe. Cotton rose is floating closed on earth like a pale moon rising.

At the end of October, Los Angels has lots of red big roses there. It resemble to the cotton flower or hybiscas in Hawaii. 

The cotton rose leaves are spiky on the edge, very large and thick, and deep green. It tells us they comes from the South. The mallow's leave are small and grow the quater degree in a clockwise.

This image above is named Flower Butterfly, remixing my Tokyo and Los Angels flower expierience of the summer. Pale white flower is wafting down up the sky.

Please take a littel time to look at the drawing process by clicking the below video.This work comes across a scroll and now floating in a room as well.  see this beautiful complete of kakejiku by Ms. Izumi Murakami

Quadrophenia, Sumi-e Four Seasons

Quadrophenia, this is one of the album I like most and movie as well. When I got ordered four pieces of sumi-e each of which on four season's motif, this great album of "The Who" occured to me.

I saw the movie of "Quadrophenia" back in the high school days. It was very impressive that the rock music can make a noise in the film. The young "Sting" from the Police shows his face as "Ace". I liked skinny mods fashion and Brighton's soft sun light.

The sun light influenced on the art. It was not until I spent the white night that I understood the Shout, Monk, or the "Persistance de la memoire" of Dali. The silence under the sun was wired because my brain automatically imagines the noize of cars and shouting on the street in the sun. The heavy metal music can't be understandable until blasting on California highway. The local motion generates the great art.

It influences on words as well. We don't have a long evening in the summer. I don't fully understand when to use "Good evening" because the sun sinks vertical angle here, then welcome to the night. We don't have time to say "good eveing", it is "good night". The way of expression tied closely to everyday life.

The art is born on the frontier. Crossing the border and mix the local flavor. Tradition is the pile of mixturing. The four season style of sumi-e has drawn non Japanese animals like tigers.

It is bored to just stencil the tradional items. That is brain death. To me, four seasons is the quadrophenia, the Who. The personal expierience with the local technique creates new art.

Please take a few moment to look the collaboration with studio Ren, meister Idumi Murakami.   

London Calling Sumi-e Lovers

I will be in London, from 25th September to 30th. It would be nice to have small talks with anyone sumie lovers over there.

If interesting, please contact me at a temporary mail address here : sumielovelondon@yahoo.co.jp

Flower Dragon sumie Swinging Scrolling

One evening when been in Laos, Luran brapan, 2003, the towering clouds on the Hymayaran mountains happened to me to understand how the ancient people's thought, fear or respect to the "Nature". This feeling, I guess, is definately what we've maintained naturally. Thunder, flood, storm has always been with us no matter how we like or not. They are away beyond..

Now in the business world we think we have to keep working hard. For what? for the shareholders? to achieve the business goal if you are employed. This is the logial world where if you ask, you find the answer for that soon. However, the plan built by the best and the brightest guys would not work sometimes due to the natural disaster like the earthquake or typhoon. No one could plan them. Planning by the brain would surrender.

So, the balance is needed. The logically thinking helps you to have the future dream. The respect for the "Nature" power would ease you, when you fail. The effort at the goal is necessary in this money world. The success never comes itself. What if you fail? That is because of the nature.

Dragon has shaped good from the three thousand years ago. It represent the river or cloud shape. It never the same. Keep changing.

The flower dragon now finds her world of scroll, or Kakejiku, Japanese style of tapestery. Atlier Ren's meister, Idumi Murakami, makes well her condo. You can see the dragon keep swinging in Murakami's pret a porter scroll. 

see here -> 掛軸工房”連”　村上いづみ

水墨画　龍の描き方 check out YouTube vid for drawing Dragon head.

I Gilasoli sumi-e 水墨画ひまわり

向日葵, sonneblume, zonnebloem, tournesol

Hi-mawari, sunflower in Japanese, means little interesting, because it indicates a flower that turns around toward the sun's movement. Sunflower is litterary a flower of the sun, a shape of which reminds of the sun flaire. In English, German, Dutch,,, the attention takes at flower's shape, however, Asian such as Chinese, Japanese and Latins such as Italian, French, they see the movement of this flower and name after it.

Italin film, "I Gilsoli", shot many beautiful sunflowers veiws. Italian director Vittorio De sica might want to represent the sunflower as people of desperate fate due to a war. He inserted lots of sunflower field cuts. They steals, doesn't move. If he were northern European, his metapher would have the strong will as the sun-shining-flower. Italian gilasoli is the "moving along the sun". So, I assume that he might represent the sunflower as the fate played by the war, unescapable recruting and another life afterwards like the sunflower turns its face along with the sun's unchangable moving, the sun is a country as the fate generator, and the sunflower is us.    

Some says in Korea a flattery is called sunflower. It is suprised that sunflower keeps a negative meaning. Only young sunflowers turns their face along with the sun's move. So Korean means might the unrestness in youth. please let me know, anyone knows this things.   

Give Sumi-e Freedom 水墨画掛軸

Scroll is a lanchbox for the fine art. Rolling it up and just bringing it to anywhere. The scroll drawing originates in 11th - 12th century of the Sohn dynasty. I guess that it was to cater Buddhism icons. After coming to Japan in 11th century, the tea ceremony shifted the scroll up to the art from only the relegious usage. They put the scroll drawing on the wall along with the season change. Various scroll collection is the changable software on the minimal tea ceremony room of minimal. Cherry blossom drawing in the winter makes you feel the spring and warm. Maple leaves lead you to the autumn, forgetting the hot summer, blasting stagnate wind. The scroll art has developped since then. The style optimizes for it to be pretty from the sitting veiw point.

A scroll meister Idumi Murakami of Studio Ren, winds new blow in the tradion. Few places for scroll in the westernized Japanese rooms. She is, residing in Fukushima prefecture the northern Japan, creating the pop scroll. Indigo blue jeans and colorful frame impresses us freshy modern image. Living this colorful world flooding industrial advertising posture, Murakmi's flavor releaves the high wall of the tradional abstruse style.

With the collaboration of Murakami, sumi-e works breath new air. Please check the above photo for more aesthetic.

掛軸工房"連"　村上いづみ　http://blog.livedoor.jp/rennikki/archives/54741484.html

Campsis Grandiflora 水墨画のうぜんかづら

Again, "Trumpet Creeper" is on the dictionary translation and doubt it's uncommon in English expression, so put a scientific name on it, "Campsis grandiflora". Anyone please lets me know your name of this flower in local.
This orenge flower is now on blooming after hydrangea rainy season here in Japan. We see the pyle of flower on the top of strings hanging from the wall or roof. The shape of flower remainds of the Chinese origine like kanpanera, and it is.
It came here from China in 10th century and had longevity, there is 400 years old of this.

now SEEDS back !!

My organizing this, anyone around Tokyo, getting together for this chance of Japanese art scene.
After the long time break, Japonism art round, SEEDS Tokyo Impact is back at last. August 10th, Friday 21:00 is the time for the mid-summer night slingers to get a reflesh shower with the "Japan Cool" art culture. Coming By.
■SEEDS Tokyo Impact 9th "Sun flower"
[ http://seedstokyoimpact.blogspot.com/ ]
Place: Bullet's (turn right at the corner of "aLife" @Roppongi) http://bul-lets.com/top.html
Venue: 2000 JPY w/t 1drink
Time: August 10, Friday 21:00 - 4:00
■Live Performance
Ko Ito [Contemporary Dance]
Megumi Hioki [Live Caligraphy]
Norika Kizaki [Japanese Dram]
Refregerator Man [Santd up Comedy]
Kiroku Aoi, Kyo Aoi, Sakura Aoi [Japanese Tradional Dance "Aoi Ryu"]
Hanao [Japanse Blues]
Sandra [Dance]
MOJO Yokoyama [Ethnic Instrument]
■Instaration
Saori Yoshida [Sya-kyo:carigrapy on Buddist book]
Syu Onodera [Ikebana "Sogeturyu"]
MOJOSPRING
Sandrapia []
■DJ
KAZUKI
Mogiwo@STARMAN
■See waht's happen before :
Vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/seedstokyoimpact
Phots: http://kw.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/seeds_tokyo_impact_tsubak/

Sumi-e Rhododendron Flower

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Flower of rhododendron, syakunage in Japanese:

Strange English name for this pretty flower...  It has light pink flower with thick green leaves. Ball shape of flower tops on sward leaves radiating. It should originated somewhere in the South Asia, long time journey to Japanese islands. In May, lots of pink ball blooming on streets in the Tokyo old town. A hydrangea and rhododendron must root at the same, thinking the shape of flower and leaves.   

水墨画石楠花

Hydrangea - Ajisai sumi-e

Ajisai - Hydrangea is an favorable icon in the rainy season here. We have big discussion whether it's already? or not yet in...

Flower of hydrangea have several colors, from blue to white, violet.. and deep green leaves under the flower got your eye contact, usually.... we don't have rain this year and got the summer sun shine now., I guess we don't enjoy hydrangea feel.

Iris for Sumie Drawing

Iris is one of the magnificent flower. It has various colors, blue, violet or white... I hope I could depict those colors in sumi iris flower.

We have at least three spieces, but few understand those differences and figure out such is such. Though I know three names for iris-like flower, I can't point out the exact names on exact one.

How many names of this flower do you have in your language?

Orchid for Sumi-e Line Lesson

There are four objects for sumi-e starters to learn first, 1) Bamboo, 2) Plum, 3) Chrysanthemum, and 4) Orchid, I think orchid is the most difficult among them, I have not had be confortable when I am done with the line of leaves. It is always that I can find some what I did't try. To close to the perfect gradation and line shape, sumi ink must be appropreate in brush hair. water as well.. simple not always easy.. but worth try. 

Chrysanthemum Sumi-e Drawing 水墨画 菊の描き方

Chrysanthemum,

Tips 1:  the wohle picture of flower build the diamond shape or pentagon.

Tips 2: every piece of flower go toward the center.

Tips 3: leaves around flower must be very black so that the chrysanthemum flower gets colored.

水墨画 十字架 Cross sumie Botanics

キリスト教の時間軸は直線的、東洋のそれは、円だそうです。天国に行ったままと、輪廻でまた戻るのと。十字架に、来年も咲く植物を埋め込んで、融合しました。 (左の画像をクリックすると水墨画作品集にとびますっ)

The time line in the Christianity draws straight while it goes the circle in the Orient, Asian point of view. You go up in the heaven in the West while the reincarnation world. I put the botanics which turns around year by year for thousand years to a cross shape. The integration of philosophy generates looks modern. 

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Sumi-e Lesson for Beginners

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Smell Sumi Perfume, Be High

How y'all doing? Drawing sumi-e makes your right brain pumping up. If the dirt comes to look like a dog and starts to bark at a moon, or you see the dragon out of the stain of a wall,,,,,, this web course is successful.

Rainbow, grape, maple leaf and bamboo are good entry samples. Because those motifs are simple but tasty. You can obtain basic suibokuga technique. Then, grow by yourself.

Supplies: Brush (fude), suzuri, sumi bar and rice paper (wa shi), "Sumi" is ink made of the ash of palm tree.

■Rainbow for gradation technique: In this rainbow stage, what you have to get is one brush five gradation technique. To draw a beautiful rainbow, making an appropriate, sumi balance brush is inevitable. First, dilute sumi with the water and dip a brush deeply. Second, put very black sumi ink on the top of the brush. Now, imagine the black ink first flowing out of the brush and diluting ink second. If you can, then draw the arch on paper. Catch the gradation feeling with the rainbow.

Scrubing Sumi : Take a little water in suzuri. Put a sumi bar at the place where the water is. Scratch sumi bar with the little water by drawing a circle, imagine Ying and Yang shape. Hold a sumi bar at 45 degree angle so tha you can make a mountain on the top of the sumi bar. Seeing sumi dissolving into the water of suzuri. Smell sumi ink and be high..... meditation !!

Making Brush : Take a water in the plate and put sumi in it. Delute sumi and water and make very pale grey. Dip a brush in this grey sumi and tap somtimes. Grey sumi is pulled up a brush by a capillary fenominon. Then, increase sumi ink in the plate, make more black sumi ink and tap a brush. Make five stages of black ink and put them into a brush. Put a brush in suzuri to get pure sumi black on the tiny top of the brush. Now imagine sumi will flow out through the top of a brush to a paper by the order of darkness. LOGICAL thinking here.

Drawing Rainbow : You hold a brush standly and draw a carve line. Once start drawing line, never return a brush to suzuri. Keep drawing until finish five lines. You see the gradation and blurred??? Take back and see your rainbow, disappear the border and get one rainbow?? This is what exactly a pointillism artist in Impressionism tried to do.

FAQ1: Almost all rice paper ,wa-shi, gets wrinkly, when you draw. To give someone your suim-e, you need stick another paper backside, so that a paper get right. (this called, ura uchi, ura= back, uchi=stick)

FAQ2: Gradation problem. Try just lay a brush and put it on paper. Like to stamp the brush. If you get right gradation in a brush, you can get shade on paper exactly the brush has.

(Click ▼ for start: Attention: the first 90 seconds are little boring, only scratching sumi bar......)

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Sumi-e Drawing Video Buddha Meditation Zen

Buddha Meditation Drawing Video Click here for a finished Image

The key three lines are, 1)shoulder outline, 2)inside line to abdmen, 3)salnted down line from abdmen.
The three lines cross at the key point called "tan-den" where the "ki" power is focused, 9 cm under the navel. Focusing "Ki" at the tan-den point is applied for all martial arts or breathing method like yoga.

水墨画の描き方（動画）：仏陀画：白衣観音、牧谿「観音猿鶴図」模写：　白衣観音は、インド密教から仏教に流れ込んだものとされてるようです。白衣のためか、女性的となり、現在は、安産の神様。

１）肩、２）肩から帯、３）帯から右斜め、この３線の角度がポイント、その３線が集まる場所が、丹田か。

Sumi-e Video "Dog"水墨画描き方”たらしこみ技法”(動画)

Tarashikomi Technique in sumi-e, originated Sotatsu Tawaraya

水墨画は、最後は滲みに行き着く。実際の滲みの動きを実感するため、たらしこみ技法、俵屋宗達が始めたと言われる、を真似てみた。題材も、宗達が描いたという「犬」をそのまま描く。洞窟画には、草花は無いという。今も、犬、猫などかわいいキャラクターを描いたほうが、人気がでると思う。

水墨画描き方南天棒Sumi-e Drawing Video "Nantenbo"

Sumi-e Drawing Video "Omage for Nantenbo, Coming and Going"

水墨画墨絵の描き方(動画)”南天棒　雲水托鉢”の模写

山下裕二編「水墨画発見(平凡社)」から。

水墨画描き方「鷹」 Ink Drawing Eagle2

Sumi-e drawing video "Eagle"

1. Solid black on wings

水墨画の描き方(動画)　鷹

１．風切り羽根は黒く、肩は大きく

FEEL GOOD in Brain Sumi-e

水墨画プレゼントはここを、水墨画墨絵いのしし亥の描き方(動画)はこちらを、クリックしてください。。

Refrain, repeat and rhythm paralysises us stop thinking in brain. Is it possible that there is interlligence not out of brain?

The plant does not have brain as the information center. It, however, protects, by being attended of the enemy of the enemy, from its enemy. It spouts sweet smell to lure the enemy of its enemy. Mamoru Fujieda trys to spin the plant activity out and reconstruct it as music sound. That was relaxable tunes. The reflexity was not brought of the memory pool, but  just  feel good.

The key point is “not brain activity “ occurs to me. The refrain forces us stopping thinking. No sooner than seizing to work ,the awakeress comes down on us.Chanting sutra, refrain or rhythm are the way not to think logically but to feel in the wholeness.

Sumi-e Drawing Video Eagle 1

Ink painting, suibokuga, Drawing Eagle (110 sec.)
Wings and tale follows this.
水墨画/墨絵描き方(動画)「鷹」　
１．目の周りを黒く、首は太く

FIXING TO GO : Big Dream in the Future

水墨画：大きな将来の夢：サイズ（縦×横）：20.7cm×29.4cm：２，５５６円 お求めはクリックを

When I was in the States, I went to teach math in elemntary school as a volunteer staff. One day, a kid brought to me one painting torn out of a local news paper, Atlanta Constitution. That is old Japanese sumi-e. I was so impressed and decided to learn ink painting. Now, I keep practicing and want to send one work of mine to her in Atlanta.

This work "A big dream in the future" is after my above expierience. 

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Sumi-e Drawing Video Tiger1水墨画描き方虎1

How to Draw Suibokuga "Tiger 1 " (4 minuites)

水墨画描き方(動画)虎 （４分)
１．目と鼻の位置が重要
２．耳は結構後ろです。
３．縞で、張っているエラを表現します

桔梗水墨画 Sumi-e Drawing Video Flower1

■Sumi-e Drawing Video Little Flower
1.Brush must lie on paper

■水墨画の描き方(動画):桔梗
１．花びらは、筆を紙・机と平行になるくらい横にして、置くだけ。
２．おしべ、めしべ、は濃い墨、筆は堅く絞って。
３．茎は、柔らかく。横に寝すぎくらいで丁度よし

Sumi-e Hyperlink Art Theory: Cosmos in Western, Chaos in Sumi-e

Rythm, beat refrains, pushing the botton. It keeps clicking, then the serotonin secretes like the water overflowing out of a buthtub. Simple beat makes people emotional, since acient Indian, who thought vowels of "a, o, u" of important, to Tokyo underground club hoppers.

Can sumi-e express rythm? How can suibokuga paintings motivate? Asymmetry composition has the key for the gate.

In the western art under the christianity, the equality is to maintain, i.e., the temperament, perspective or church construction. The western art is the right cerebral hemisphere's explicits based on the mathmatics, which is part of the left one.

By contrast of the western christianity, in sumi-e culture,  asymmetry composition is to think. The flower must be situated at the left low position on a paper. Don't paint the whole Swiss Alpine mountains on your eyes. See the view with negative eyes and reconstruct it with three stages of perspective, close, middle and far.

Sumi-e is the chaos theory art. The western art is rebirth of the cosmos.Whereas the western paintings build on the pile of relationship with the next part, sumi-e drawings exposits the wholeness. Every object is hyperlinked in sumi-e. Objects painted in the far perspective have relationship with the close one, not only the middle one.

Attached sumi-e works has rythm? ...No. This water fall painting is a result of western brain washed composition with sumi ink. Have to crush the left brain thinking and happen the rebirth views on your eyes. Asymmetry composition stirs it up on your mind and let the serotonin out for the inhibition. That is awakeness to intend. For "she'll carry on through it all.She's a waterfall".

Sumi-e Ontology 水墨画存在論

Science is heading to tie things up and hyperlink itm not break it down or analyse ever. The most advanced particle physicians have alerady observed the world of wholeness. Genyu, a Japanese monk, everything can be described as the relationship between the subject and the object. Thus, "being" is the relationship; It won't exist unless the subject and the object exist. Ontology has been discussed this matter.

Sumi-e painters usually leave some white space on paper, to indicate the artist's intension on his works. Dr. Yanagisawa said the memory might transcend inheritablly. She calls it God. The unpainted area is not the place painters do not paint, but something lets them not painting. The white space is the common memory with the time horizontale and the space vertical axis. Sumi ink is the transgate of total recall. Thus, sumi-e drawings are the wholeness of total recall and awakeness of our history.

Sumi-e with DJ+VJ

WIth the VJ + DJ unit, DAMC, Sumi-e sweep out @SEEDS Tokyo Impact, the Tokyo No.1 art event. Dec.9th. 水墨画とDJ＋VJのコラボ

Take a SLIDE on Sumi-e

Why don't you slide...   Free Sumi-e Movement; If you want my sumi-e works any, please email me ( ks@sumi-e.jp   ) . I will send one. 

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Sumi-e for FREE @SEEDS Tokyo Impact

Japonism Christmas Event SEEDS 8th "Tsubaki: Camellia"

Fourty copies of Kazu Shimura Sumi-e Collection at door for FREE(志村一隆水墨画を無料配布)

Let's spend the "Japonism" Night Together. SEEDS Tokyo Impact 8th invites anybody love japanese art for the premere of Tokyo christmas season. The blue eyes depiction of Japanese culture are welcome. High quality traditional but modern art performance will ease you and seeds new creativity in you.
anyway, drop by SEEDS in Shibuya at club ON@OFF, or you won't piss the night away.

Venue: No Need Reservation
December 9th Sat. 21:00 start till Dawn 4:00
1,500 yen (1 drink)
Shibuya ON@OFF MAP
phone: 03-3476-1080

21:30- Maharajah Harmonics "Kazoo" Junpei Makuuchi幕内純平
22:15- Yanaka Blues Again Biwa(Japanese lute) Nobuko Kawashima（川嶋信子谷中琵琶スタイル）
22:45- Christman Chanpaign Bloom Shinobue+Wadaiko (Bamboo flute + Japanese Drum) Michiko Yamada "DakaDaka"山田路子・月村路子・木崎詔甲・打火打花
23:30- Bluse Man from the South "Tsubaki Hanawo" Showツバキハナヲ
24:15- Watch That Man Soul Dance Ko Ito　伊藤虹
25:00- Ambient Trunpet Ko、Do、Na
25:30- Jam w/t Dijurijue, Berrydance and more

Pantomime Magic Monchack

Art Live Performance

21:00-4:00 Curving and Printing Aya Kondo　こんどうあや
21:00-23:00Drawing KOBATA
24:00-4:00 Drawing Riu Wauke
21:00-4:00 Calligraphy Orie Yoshida　吉田織江
21:00- 4:00 Ikebana Live (Flower arrangement) Seiko Nasu　那須青虹
Live Photo M@sa　from　OKノーツ

DJ Kazuki
DJ+Video double A.M. coorporation
VJ Area 81

Kimono Dress Hana Rieko Hagiwara　華リエコハギワラ

previous images here
live legend here

Sumi-e Competitors

Sumi-e as interior:

What is your pass time favorites? You prefer seeing paintings to surfing internet? Ink painting's enemy is not oil paintings. In order to take on "time and space" of young slickers, it fights agaist TV game, books, YouTube, chatting.   

Rose Sumi-e How to Draw水墨画描き方(動画)薔薇

Rose

水墨画の描き方(動画)　薔薇
１．芯を２筆で。
２．後は、花びらがめくれたり、巻いているところをイメージして描きます。

Bamboo Sumi-e Drawing Video水墨画描き方(動画)竹

Sumi-e Drawing Video Bamboo (90 seconds)
Five bamboo leaves will be embossed with one dipped brush. Straight strokes

水墨画の描き方(90秒)　竹

１．薄墨から濃い墨までを、筆にいれます。
２．紙に筆を押し付けます、一息いれてから、まっすぐ伸ばします。
３．５枚一組で、描きます。
４．竹の幹（管）は、筆を横に寝かせ、少ししならせて上に引っ張ります。
５．濃い墨で、幹のでっぱりを。

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Saury Sumi-e Drawing Video水墨画描き方(動画)秋刀魚

Saury is one of Japanese favorites in autumn. The fish is strong thin and fresh blue.

水墨画の描き方(動画)：秋刀魚
１．目、顔を、硬く絞った濃い墨で、
２．ヒレは、濃い墨と薄墨が1本の線ででるように
３．濃い墨で1本の線を、後で筆を横にして下におろします。（光りモノと言われる青々しさがでるように）

水墨画描き方(動画)烏賊：Sumi-e Drawing Video 2

Parapodia of ten at suquid.

水墨画描き方(動画)烏賊の足

１．筆の片側に薄墨をつけ、筆を半回転して描くと、濃淡が足の立体的描写となります
２．いぼは、筆の先に濃い墨をつけ、硬く絞って、足が乾かないうちに、引きずりながら。滲ませます。

水墨画描き方(動画)イカ：Sumi-e Drawing Squid 2

Squid transparency expresses by oozing black ink over off-black ink.

水墨画の描き方(動画)：イカ

１．薄墨でイカの胴体を描きます。
２．ちょっと濃い墨で、輪郭を
３．一番濃い墨で、中身を描きます。思い切って。中心よりやや上、少し上に湾曲させると立体感がでます
４．濃い墨で、目を描きます。横に楕円形。黒目はやや大きく。 (120 seconds)

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水墨画描き方Sumi-e Lesson Video Chstnuts Final

Branch makes it alive. Brain works well of synapse connection. Plants or woods paintings in sumi-e needs synapses in order to give activation.Branch drawing in sumi-e is an edition work in films. It is the funnest work for painters. (50 seconds)

枝を最後に描きます。大体、３点を考えます。１．下曲がりか、上曲がりか、２．分岐する枝はどこから、３．実の上か下か

Sumi-e TV Chestnuts 2

Crumpled leaves compose the same shape of stroke. 水墨画、栗の葉の描き方です。同じ形を連続させることで、真ん中でねじれた形にします。葉の裏と表を、色を変えた 薄墨で描きます。

水墨画 栗 Sumi-e Video in Chestnuts1

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Chestnuts is one of sumi-e painter's favorite. This is the autumn appriciation in Japan. (2 minuites)

水墨画の描き方：栗

１．薄墨でイガの身を楕円３つ描きます。

２．栗の実は、濃い墨で、筆を横に寝かせて置くだけ（動かさない）。薄墨とかぶせるようにすると、栗の実は自然と中に入ってるように見えます。

Grape Drawing Sumi-e Video 水墨画葡萄の描き方

Drawing grape in Sumi-e. A brush needs five stages of gradation of ink before start to draw. 

水墨画の描き方：葡萄（ぶどう）編

葡萄の重なりも、水墨画の醍醐味が味わえる題材です。葡萄は、左・右片側ずつ描いて、一つの葡萄を描きます。葡萄では、筆を少し寝かして置くだけ。今回は、筆を寝かすことを覚えてください。筆を寝かして、黒い筆先から薄い筆の根元を、そのまま紙に写す感じです。筆の寝かして置く感覚は、これから立体感を描くときの基本になりますので、忘れないで。

１．ブドウ1粒は、2筆で。右側、左側。筆を寝かせて描くと、濃淡がでて奥行きが表現できます。一回の墨で、約10ケのブドウを描きます。自然の濃淡が、房の向こう側、こちら側についてる一粒一粒を表現できます。

Brush Strokes Lesson on Maple Synapes 2

Synapes leaves and think it.

Ink Painting Practice on Bird & Maple 3

Brush storokes on Bird and Fin.
It's raining again, He knows who'll stop it.

水墨画描き方紅葉Sumi-e Ink Brush Stroke in Maple & Bird 1

Sumi-e First Touch Front

One brush of ink can be five leaves of maple with five stages of gradation. A leaf of the first stroke will emboss on the second one.

水墨画　紅葉の描き方 （詳しくは　http://sumi-e.jp/ ）

■紅葉の描き方　「１：５の法則、１回の墨で５枚の葉」「最初に描いたモノが手前にくる」：　短い線を五枚描くと紅葉、丸く重ねると葡萄、勢いよく伸ばすと竹の葉が描けます。１回の墨で、５枚の紅葉。最初に描いた濃い紅葉が、一番上に見えるのに気づきましたか？そう、水墨画は、一番最初に描いたモノが、一番上に見えます。濃いモノが前に、薄いモノが後ろに、濃淡が水墨画の遠近法です。紅葉を描きながら、水墨画では最初に描いたものが一番前にくることを実感しましょう。▼をクリックしてください。動画がスタートします。無料です。1分40秒

紅葉の描き順　8秒　

On Sale "Zen" The Relation

人間社会、森、なわばり、分子構造、全ての個体間には「距離」がある。距離には、「長さ」、「強さ」という属性を持っています。太陽、地球、月は、長さと重力の２つの均衡で関係が成立しています。人間関係も同じこと。

Hope Change in Mind

It will never happen once it get started. The winter begins and the spring must come.

Before it Happens

The universe of brain plays music with synaps and nerves. Syncronisity occurs when the memory crush happens.

水墨画竹 Bamboo up, Swing Top on Sumi-e TV

You bamboo up and feel free in the sky. See bamboo all, take swing one.

The Universe of Similarity

The inside out movement metaphorically indicates "relaese", "open" or "liberation".
Is open good?? "Staying in" is bad?
Frequently, the answer is your deep inside. Beyond the fractal of camellia you will find one.

Objective grows up to Subjective

Yukio Yashiro observes that Davinci and Asian artists demonstrate the same metaphysical mind on their works. He told "There is something abundant of humanity in Davinci"He mentions the inevitablity of contingency beyond the art works. After the long and deep thought of natularism, you can achive the exchange between objective and subjective.

Sumi-e -> Happening Art?

Old Chinese art review book said, "Ink blows on paperand cloud is there. This technique is called "Cloud Blowing". Well, Is suibokuga, or sumie coincident art?? Anybody can make shape?? Non

STATEMENT プロフィール

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Born: Tokyo, Feb. 1th 1968

Atelier: "Shokido", Akasaka, Tokyo

EDUCATION:

Ph.D.  Kochi Institute of Technology
MBA   Goizueta Buisiness School at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
BA   Waseda University

Works:

The beauty is what? It is a flash back of memories. Memories reflects your expierience. Where is the eternal beauty? If there is, it must be in Nature. You have seen the green wood under the blue sky and the yellow sunshine in billions of years. The memory of Nature sustains what it was and is in the brain. There must be forgotten memories. Those hidden memories, however, might take you prompy scene.

Art needs communication. Not everybody, however, has plenty of sense to appriciate. My works tries to stink a passive brain and pull the beautiful flash back out behind.

Marginal:

A marginal imcubents innovation. The integration generates the future. Having hung around science and art, buisiness and art or western and eastern culture, the right and left brain works well to spin images on paper.

Sumi-e Art Initiative:

Buisiness leaders use intuition on decision making. Sumi-e drawing forces intuition as well. The intuition occurs only on your memories in the brain. Winners takes all in history. The golden thumb rule for victory is to keep forwarding until you win.

Atlier: Shokido,　2-10-16 Akasaka Square Bldg. 4th floor-A, Akasaka, Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan 1070052 Phone: +81 3 5549 4404

■水墨画家　志村一隆　略歴■

５０ヶ国以上を旅した後、アメリカジョージア州アトランタのエモリー大学ゴイズエタビジネススクールで、MBAを取得。高知工科大学基盤工学科起業家コースで、博士号を取得。2001年（株）ケータイWOWOWを設立、代表取締役に就任。現在、アトリエ嘯氣堂を赤坂に構え、創作活動を行っている。また、Japonism Art Innovationイベント、SEEDS Tokyo Impactを隔月開催、人気を博している。

■創作：

なぜ、人は絵を見るのか？なぜ美しいと感じるのか？美しいとは何か？アートを突き詰めた結果を、筆にのせる活動を続ける。

■辺境：

辺境は、新たな文化の揺り籠である。文系と理系、ビジネスとアート、アジアと欧米、大企業とベンチャー、対比軸を往来してきた。新規事業なくして成長なし、右脳と左脳の辺境で、経験を融合したものを、水墨画で表現します。

■水墨画100万枚計画：

伝統は100年前の前衛である。芸術は社会の鏡である。現代の生活に居場所を見つけられない芸術は、退場するしかない。いい作品かどうかは、社会が決める。裾野の広い山は、頂点も高い。ヒマラヤ山頂は、ただ1点。より高い頂点を築くには、裾野を広げるに如くはない。

■アートベンチャー：

歴史は、勝者のものである。勝つまでやる、勝者の方程式である。芸術は、ロハスではない。芸術は綿密なひらめきによる攻撃である。

連絡先：　嘯氣堂　港区赤坂2-10-16　赤坂スクエアビル４F－A

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Suibokuga/Sumi-e is what?

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Leonardo daVinci’s classic icon “Mona Lisa” has no outline. Why? The answer is his words, "Every single thing reincarnates."A 13th century Japanse philosopher, Chomei Kamo said a famous phrase in "Hojouki", "Water keeps rolling, no water stays there". Water is not ejectable. Associated with the container, water changes its shape. He painted the fascinated woman’s figure with his unique sfmato technique. The contour of the object is fading off just into the beginning of another object line. The outline of “Mona Lisa” dissolves into the river painted around the figure. If he metaphorically painted water for something, the Monalisa shape is a container. The painting embodies an image(Midori Wakakuwa). The sense of evanescent expressed by acient Japanese monks stands out no more than Davinci held "the splash of fertile humanity(Sachio Yashiro)". The abundant humanity out of the expierience, however, would keep him in the marginal area. I have not met the intiment

In suibokuga, or sumi-e painting, you will not draw the line. Yet, the thirteen centuries Sumi-e painters drew the line so do the twenty one century's manga, comics. Professor Tadashi Kobayashi pointed out that in sixteenth century, the line grew to be area form which Professor Kobayashi calls "a mask line". The gifted painter like Sotatsu Tawaraya used baggy thick stroke to express object like a green bean. One thick stroke would become one green bean itself. The other important point Professor Kobayashi told is that Sotatsu would never try the "stereo-painting" effect. Like ukiyo-e or Takashi Murakami's Super Flat concept, Sotatsu simplified the shade and light and showed two-dimensonal expression. Davinci tried to show the realistic shape on canvas by sfmato technique. Davinci and Sotatsu tried to dissolve the outline on their artwork. However, they achieved an opponent approach in terms of their aim. In short, Japanese sumi-e painters simplified object and Davinci tried get it real on canvas.

I moved on suibokuga, or sumi-e, not because of Japanese proud "simplified" art, but "stereo-painting", the cubical technique with one simple stroke. The modern sumi-e has acquired the historical progress, with which it apparted from the flat expression. It appears a cubic expression on the paper. The light, shade and shape eject with one stroke.

The sfmato technique of sumi-e is achieved by water perspiration. The edge of the shape remains in vague by an uncontrollably water dynamism. This is the sumi-e painters’ humbleness and the reflection of the respect for the nature. “Logos” of Helakureitos, “Idea” of Pluto, the Substance in the ontology, Suibokuga painters express the hidden Substance out of vague edge line with water and black ink.

The edge line of black ink exists the end of water perspiration area. Painters reconstruct their recognition. In epistemology, the truth and belief has difference. Painters usually end drawing where they believe that the shape of the object ends. But in Suibokuga, painters can not control the edge line of the shape because of the water perspiration. Therefore, water move exposures the hidden truth of recognition of the existence, the substance of the un-recognition. That is, they see the Mu, whereas to non being. Where the Mu exists in suibokuga works? You can see it in the blanc on paper. Qualia is born.

Drawing is the expression of artists. However, suibokuga paiters emboss the substance of Mu by retaining blanc part on paper. What is the Mu in suibokuga art? That is emotion. The emotion is quivering between the painter and the watcher. Mu is deliberative and intention.

Without the attention, can the art be Mu? That is Kyo, hollow, vacant. Kyo exists all around the nature. The mountain dew or waterfall has kept splashed before the human being starts adventure. The art without attention is like this waterfall. Kyo is nature and out of intention.

Mu is not “no being”. Mu is the existence of the infinity. Therefore, every single person has different Mu in his/her inside. Painters try to correspond the emotional dynamics in the Mu field with watchers. Only with consistence among their intense,