Tokyo
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Shūsaku Prize awarded for calligraphy at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
I am thrilled that my calligraphy artwork has been awarded a Shūsaku Prize (秀作 Excellent Work) at the 74th Shokaisha Exhibition 第74回 書海社展 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, situated inside Ueno Park. The exhibition ran from the 28th January to 3rd February at the bustling museum. This annual exhibition of shodо̄ calligraphy features several
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透明観 tōmeikan – tokyo
deepening spaces –inching somewhere, somehow,absorbing and refracting 透 – tō – to be transparent, leave gap, hold light明 – mei – bright/ illumination観 – kan – observation meditation; perceive
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Portrait of Tokyo Ren Master
Many visitors to the friendly Ren Bar in east Tokyo made calligraphy and artworks to express their wishes for the new year… here is my fast ink portrait of the famous master!
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High Bridges – Walking Drawing Tokyo West from Naka Meguro
along suspended riverblocked by oncoming vertical flyovernanamemeeting high polished walls isolating the residential worldfloating gardens flowing into alloy platforms intertwined shafts, containers hummingneutral perimetersemerging and reshaping the ground and drawing out energy lines overlapping populous spacessuffusedabove a tandem rotor flying heavilyleaden quick descent and dark blue chill moving onundulating and avoiding trafficsoon underground in quiet