One evening when been in Laos, Luran brapan, 2003, the towering clouds on the Hymayaran mountains happened to me to understand how the ancient people’s thought, fear or respect to the "Nature". This feeling, I guess, is definately what we’ve maintained naturally. Thunder, flood, storm has always been with us no matter how we like or not. They are away beyond..

Now in the business world we think we have to keep working hard. For what? for the shareholders? to achieve the business goal if you are employed. This is the logial world where if you ask, you find the answer for that soon. However, the plan built by the best and the brightest guys would not work sometimes due to the natural disaster like the earthquake or typhoon. No one could plan them. Planning by the brain would surrender.

So, the balance is needed. The logically thinking helps you to have the future dream. The respect for the "Nature" power would ease you, when you fail. The effort at the goal is necessary in this money world. The success never comes itself. What if you fail? That is because of the nature.

Dragon has shaped good from the three thousand years ago. It represent the river or cloud shape. It never the same. Keep changing.

The flower dragon now finds her world of scroll, or Kakejiku, Japanese style of tapestery. Atlier Ren’s meister, Idumi Murakami, makes well her condo. You can see the dragon keep swinging in Murakami’s pret a porter scroll. 

see here -> 掛軸工房”連”　村上いづみ

水墨画　龍の描き方 check out YouTube vid for drawing Dragon head.

向日葵, sonneblume, zonnebloem, tournesol

Hi-mawari, sunflower in Japanese, means little interesting, because it indicates a flower that turns around toward the sun’s movement. Sunflower is litterary a flower of the sun, a shape of which reminds of the sun flaire. In English, German, Dutch,,, the attention takes at flower’s shape, however, Asian such as Chinese, Japanese and Latins such as Italian, French, they see the movement of this flower and name after it.

Italin film, "I Gilsoli", shot many beautiful sunflowers veiws. Italian director Vittorio De sica might want to represent the sunflower as people of desperate fate due to a war. He inserted lots of sunflower field cuts. They steals, doesn’t move. If he were northern European, his metapher would have the strong will as the sun-shining-flower. Italian gilasoli is the "moving along the sun". So, I assume that he might represent the sunflower as the fate played by the war, unescapable recruting and another life afterwards like the sunflower turns its face along with the sun’s unchangable moving, the sun is a country as the fate generator, and the sunflower is us.    

Some says in Korea a flattery is called sunflower. It is suprised that sunflower keeps a negative meaning. Only young sunflowers turns their face along with the sun’s move. So Korean means might the unrestness in youth. please let me know, anyone knows this things.   

Scroll is a lanchbox for the fine art. Rolling it up and just bringing it to anywhere. The scroll drawing originates in 11th – 12th century of the Sohn dynasty. I guess that it was to cater Buddhism icons. After coming to Japan in 11th century, the tea ceremony shifted the scroll up to the art from only the relegious usage. They put the scroll drawing on the wall along with the season change. Various scroll collection is the changable software on the minimal tea ceremony room of minimal. Cherry blossom drawing in the winter makes you feel the spring and warm. Maple leaves lead you to the autumn, forgetting the hot summer, blasting stagnate wind. The scroll art has developped since then. The style optimizes for it to be pretty from the sitting veiw point.

A scroll meister Idumi Murakami of Studio Ren, winds new blow in the tradion. Few places for scroll in the westernized Japanese rooms. She is, residing in Fukushima prefecture the northern Japan, creating the pop scroll. Indigo blue jeans and colorful frame impresses us freshy modern image. Living this colorful world flooding industrial advertising posture, Murakmi’s flavor releaves the high wall of the tradional abstruse style.

With the collaboration of Murakami, sumi-e works breath new air. Please check the above photo for more aesthetic.

掛軸工房"連"　村上いづみ　http://blog.livedoor.jp/rennikki/archives/54741484.html

Again, "Trumpet Creeper" is on the dictionary translation and doubt it’s uncommon in English expression, so put a scientific name on it, "Campsis grandiflora". Anyone please lets me know your name of this flower in local.
This orenge flower is now on blooming after hydrangea rainy season here in Japan. We see the pyle of flower on the top of strings hanging from the wall or roof. The shape of flower remainds of the Chinese origine like kanpanera, and it is.
It came here from China in 10th century and had longevity, there is 400 years old of this.

Ajisai – Hydrangea is an favorable icon in the rainy season here. We have big discussion whether it’s already? or not yet in…

Flower of hydrangea have several colors, from blue to white, violet.. and deep green leaves under the flower got your eye contact, usually…. we don’t have rain this year and got the summer sun shine now., I guess we don’t enjoy hydrangea feel.

There are four objects for sumi-e starters to learn first, 1) Bamboo, 2) Plum, 3) Chrysanthemum, and 4) Orchid, I think orchid is the most difficult among them, I have not had be confortable when I am done with the line of leaves. It is always that I can find some what I did’t try. To close to the perfect gradation and line shape, sumi ink must be appropreate in brush hair. water as well.. simple not always easy.. but worth try.