Interior garden at the Nagae Jūtaku.
From March 21 to 23, we had an exhibition of Yoko Nishina’s calligraphy and my mountings in Kyoto.
All of the works included some reference to the concept of “Kage”—a term that has nuances of “reflections” as well as “shadow.”
Several of the pieces include 3-D effects in using characters laser-cut in acrylic, floated off the background of the scroll.
Okagesama
Kokinshū poem
Cool shade (white)
Ryokan haiku
Paired scrolls
translation
Kage Utsurohi exhibition in Kyoto
2013
Manyōshū poem
Cool Shade (black)
character “shadow”
Ryokan haiku (2)
In Praise of Shadows
Kokinshū poem
Cool Shade-2
shadow
Ryokan haiku
English poem