Heavy schedule!

[July]
From July 1st to 6th, “Japanese Calligraphy Exhibition, Kyushu Exhibition” will be held at Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. I will attend the celebration at Hotel Nikko on July 1st.

From July 8th to 13th, “Exhibition of Representative Works by Japanese and Chinese Female Calligraphers, Tokyo Exhibition” will be held at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Last year, Beijing Exhibition was held and I flew from Kyushu to Beijing by myself (I will write about this incredibly interesting and scary trip sometime later…)
Keeping the promise to “meet in Tokyo next year”, I will attend the celebration on July 8th.

From July 15th to 21st, “Mainichi Calligraphy Exhibition, Kagoshima Exhibition” will be held. I will attend the eve party on July 14th.
On July 21st and 22nd, “Yoshin Summer Training Session” in my area, Fukuoka.
From July 27th to 30th, “Sogen-Shodokai Summer Training Session” in Atami.

This is very hard, isn’t it? I have many other meetings too. Moreover, I have to finish work for “** exhibition” held in August.
Please pray for my health.


[August]
In August, which is suggestive, there is big, big news!
Suddenly, it was determined that "Mother-Daughter Exhibition” of my dream will be held at Elgala Gallery in Tenjin, Fukuoka from August 12th to 17th!

I think I wrote in my blog, it has been 7 years since my mother passed away. My mother was doing ink painting before her death and has left many works. I have wanted to hold an exhibition together for 7 years. It may have been the guide of my father and mother that the unexpected chance came to me. It is because this period just falls on “Obon”. “Obon” is the day that has been said spirits of the dead come back to home once a year in Buddhism. Relatives gather to hold a memorial service for their ancestors.
My father, mother and ancestors will come to visit the exhibition of my mother’s and my works all the way from Jodo (Pure Land)…I believe so.

I am sensitive to summer.
I have been physically weak since my childhood - so-called physically fragile. It hasn’t changed that I easily get tired and suffer from headache even after I reached adulthood. And it hasn’t changed that my body feels itchy particularly in summer. I believe I am a fungus such as penicillium and fusarium. I am vulnerable to healthy rays of the sun in summer.
I have never experienced super busyness like this year in this harsh season. Changing sighs into willpower, I will overcome it calmly with a light hand! (I suppose so...)

I will let you know the detailed information of “Mother-Daughter Exhibition”. Please come to visit us if it is close to you (and even far from you if possible). I would like to see you at the venue!!