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Tomorrow & Sunday, I'll be back at San Francisco Asian Art Museum for a large-scale live calligraphy performance, accompanied by Japanese taiko drummers Galen Rogers & Aleo Mok of Jiten Daiko,
I'm proud to announce that my solo exhibition, titled "陰翳 IN-EI: The Resonance of Shadows", is opening on Friday, February 19th at Cross Hotel Sapporo, Hokkaido. All artworks for this
I’m working in Hokkaido from January 20th until the end of February. I have a few more weeks until my solo exhibition opens on February 19th… I love Winter with snow
SEASON’S GREETINGS from ATELIER TOWA Hope everyone had a great start of the New year! My resolution for this year is “掌 (Tanagokoro)”: In Zen teaching, there is this
Kakizome (書き初め) is the term for the first calligraphy writing of the new year, traditionally performed on the second day of January. This event is also called 吉書 (kissho), 初硯
Starting December 2015, I’m going to begin teaching a series of Japanese calligraphy workshops in my studio in Berkeley California, called Atelier Towa. The first two sessions are on Sunday
Earlier this year, I worked on a calligraphy logo for Omakase, a new high-end Edo-mae style sushi restaurant in SOMA district of San Francisco. They just opened in September this
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want
The trees on the streets and mountains are turning into Autumn colors here in Hokkaido. Tiny “Yukimushi” (snow fly) are flying around everywhere, resembling snow flakes dancing in the brisk
In Japan, it’s O-higan: 7 days period of Buddhist holidays, which is 3 days before and after the autumn equinox. O-higan (お彼岸) means “the other side of river: the world