Carre MOJI Calligraphy Exhibit Nov 13~14 (Sat~Sun) 11:00~19:00

The annual Carre MOJI Student Exhibition will be held this month at the Carre MOJI Gallery in Omotesando, and I will be exhibiting my recent calligraphy piece shown here.

暫時は滝に籠るや夏の初め （しばらくはたきにこもるやげのはじめ)
shibarakuwa  takinikomoruya  genohajime

This is from a Haiku Poem by Matsubasho, which in translation reads:

Will stop for a while
Deep inside a waterfall
Beginning of summer

While this Haiku is not really in season, it was the phrase, Deep inside a waterfall, that caught my imagination. The only way to get inside a waterful is to get under it, or at least behind it. And here you experience the power and freshness moment by moment of water in free fall.

I selected this phrase for my calligraphy piece also because the character for 籠 (komoru), which means deep inside, secluded, or confined in, and implying deep immersion, is composed of the radicals for bamboo 竹 and dragon 龍, whereas the character for waterfall is composed of the radicals for water ⺡and dragon 龍, giving the phrase a double-meaning deep inside the dragon.

Dragon is also the symbol of Creative Power, and I was born in the Year of the Dragon (1952).

This work is one of many works which will be displayed at the Carre MOJI Gallery in Omotesando on the weekend of November 13~14. I hope to see you there!