Miki Otake's Calligraphy 【Unicorn】

First of all, this is not just a Calligraphy, but really an art.
Color contrast, letter balance, size, all of them are beautiful.

I feel devine from it.

And my most favorite point of it is the flame.

So beautiful!!

Her sence is really great!!

If I had enough money, I would buy it immediately.

And this says -Unicorn, faily, witch-

The mean is as fantastic as the flame.




I thought, this Calligraphy is a magic art!!!!!

Photocatalyst Processing. Artificial Bamboo

Do you know Bamboo?

It is a tropical plant that is a member of the grass family and has hollow stems that are used for making furniture, poles, and so on.

Japanese people has been with it so longtime.

Someone planted it around his house.
Because it makes silent, and protect from wind.
So it has been popular among Japanese people.

And talking of Bamboo, Do you know "TAKETORI-MONOGATARI?"

It is Japanese popular ancient story.
Another name is "KAGUYA-HIME"

An pretty, little girl comes out from bamboo.
An elder man brings us her.

But she cannot live so longtime on the earth.
Because she is a princess of the moon.

So she must back to the moon.
But she do not want to.

Finally, her decision is...

Artificial Bonsai

Bonsai is a traditional Japanese art of growing trees in pots.

The word "Bonsai" meams to cultivate plants in a pot.

In bonsai, the important thing is to re-create the appearance of beautiful trees from nature in small pots.

We can enjoy the beauty of nature in miniture.




And this Bonsai is not nature thing.

So it never die, and ever change as you like.

Please enjoy your Bonsai life.


*'The bonsai which was designed in Japan' is. Because it is designed in such a way that it can take out and put in the part of the leaf freely, after purchase you can arrange with your own taste.

Miki Otake's Calligraphy 【KURO-AGEHA】 Black Butterfly

Originally, calligraphy started in China.

And it was brought to Japan from China in the Nara period(710-784).

In the past, calligraphy was an essential cultural refinement for the nobility and the Samurai class.




Have you ever seen a Bluck Butterfly?

She is very beautiful, as if peinted in a India ink (Suibokuga).

The brush strokes and shades are living in her action.

I seemed her as an art.

Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a traditional Japanese art of skillfully writing Chinese characters and hiragana, the cursive Japanese syllabary, with India ink and a brush.

Japanese people have been thought that Calligraphy is a way of developing mental concentration.

Yes, the goal of Calligraphy is focusing the mind and expressing your inner self.

So, to study Calligraphy is the way to live.



This Calligraphy is little different from popular Calligraphy.

Miki Otake's Calligraphy is written with a method of herself.

It is filled with her feeling.