Our planet is now heading toward accelerated destruction. Conflicts and refugee crises are multiplying, while freedom and democracy are increasingly under threa...

I now possess all the skills necessary to sell art online and to conceive of and implement new forms of art business. The fact that I was more or less forced to...

I had promised Mr. Yamamoto (山本豊津) of Tokyo Gallery (東京画廊) that I would continue producing pastel paintings energetically, build up a substantial body of work, ...

In 2007, I visited Tokyo Gallery (東京画廊) once again, carrying a photograph of one of my proudest works, *In Praise of Leonardo da Vinci II* (レオナルド・ダヴィンチ礼讃Ⅱ). Mr....

I came to meet Toyotsu Yamamoto (山本豊津) of Tokyo Gallery (東京画廊) once every few years. When we met for about the third time, he gave me some rather blunt advice. ...

　In the previous articles in this series, I have explored the structure of “lingering emotion” (yojo) and “yugen” in Japanese art, as well as the theories of th...

What Is Buddhist Enlightenment? Dougen (道元)’s *“Shinshin Datsuraku, Datsuraku Shinshin”* (心身脱落 脱落心身) was something he learned from his Chinese teacher, Tendō Ny...

　 What Do People Seek in the Rubble and on the Battlefield? 　If I were placed in the same situation, rather than creating an expression as a protest against the...

　Many of you may be familiar with the Japanese painter Hiroshi Senju(千住博). He is internationally known for his majestic paintings of waterfalls and, in 1995, be...

　 　I will discuss in greater depth the definition of art given by Hiroshi Senju（千住博）, which I also mentioned in my previous article. What Happened to “Home-for-...