I am a software engineer and live in Tokyo. This web site shows my hobby Ceramics art, Suiboku art and Recipe of smoke.
I started to learn Ceramics art as a hobby in Yosei Itaka's ceramic art class in tokyo at 1998.
His style is Bizen (natural style without painting).
In 2005, I started to learn Suiboku art for the paint of the ceramics at Mr.Tohun Kobayashi's Suiboku art class..
But recently I am very interested in Suiboku art itsself because of its beauty and personality of the teacher.
We use only black ink (Sumi) on the white paper (Washi) but infinite colors appears on the picture.
We do not use the draft and cannot erase the line that we once draw on the paper.
If I have missed to draw a line, he teach how to recover it and my drawings become drastically fine.
And he says The line if you draw it with spirit, it appears fine on your picture. It looks like our life that has no draft. We cannot erase our past life but we can create the future.
Suiboku art is different from the western painting for its spiritual back ground.
Mr.Tohun Kobayashi's commentary From his web site(Tohun Kobayashi),
"Suiboku-ga", a form of etching, has long been loved by the Japanese people. The simplicity
of suiboku-ga is understated, yet inherently impressive.
I believe that " sumi ", or black ink, has the power to express human feelings and manifest the changing beauty of the four seasons.
The starkness of the form inspires invisible colors in the mind.
I hope you enjoy this work
He has many exhibition and Suiboku show in many countries (France,U.S.A,UK,China,etc.).
My happiest time is when I cook and put it on my original ceramic plates and drink beer with my family.
I hope you interested in traditional Japanese culture.
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