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拓 – Cultivate – New Year 2021

  2.01.2021   admin   Calligraphy, 随想

「拓」(hiraku) – cultivate / pave the way – Happy New Year! On New Year’s Day, the sky was clear – my family and I went to a state park for

The Year 2020.

  28.12.2020   admin   随想

2020 has flown by, in the most dramatic but monotonous, challenging yet creative way. Our sense of time has changed, our ways of connecting shifted. For me, it was also

Atelier Towa moving to LA

  3.01.2020   admin   Events, 随想

New year, new place — I’m moving to Los Angeles in February. Bay Area, I will miss you dearly. I’ve lived in San Francisco Bay Area for 16 years, it’s

歩 (Ayumi) -steps- : New Year 2020

歩 (Ayumi) – steps – We welcomed the new year 2020 in my hometown in snowy Hokkaido, and finally I had a moment to hold my brush with a little

結 (yui • musubi): HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

  5.01.2019   admin   Holidays, 随想

「結」(yui • musubi) - the knot / to connect / to tie Welcome 2019, Happy New Year! After surviving through sickness until the New Year’s Eve, finally I can hold my

風花 – Snow Flurries in the Wind

  24.02.2018   admin   Calligraphy, Conceptual, 随想

風花   kazahana - Flurries in the Wind - On the last night of January. In a slumber listening to the lullaby of the city lights, dreaming of the snow flurries

暁 – HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!

  6.01.2017   admin   Calligraphy, Travel, 随想

At dawn A gleam of dreamy light radiates, Dwelling in a sweet slumber Horizon is realized by the voices of amber Day is awoken with kisses by the birds Let

「懸」- Care

  7.12.2016   admin   Calligraphy, 随想

「懸」- care 懸念懸想しあいながら、 ひととひとは繋がっていられるのだと思う。 心の一画目はじんわりと念が弧を描いて響き、 届いていくように。 心を抱きしめる腕は長く伸び、 ぽろぽろとこぼれる想いを、 包みこむように。 Worrying is caring, longing is loving – we are connected with this invisible mesh of thoughts and emotions. The first dot

“掌” Tanagokoro: Season’s Greetings from the Atelier

  2.01.2016   admin   Calligraphy, 随想

  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

Back in the US: at Atelier Towa.

  6.11.2015   admin   Calligraphy, 随想

  “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