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“Sky”
I liked drawing from when I was small. Of course, I also liked baseball and playing around the river, but when I drew well, my father praised my work. That made me draws more seriously, to get attention from my father.After entering ・・・

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“Flower Decorations Before a Buddhist Image”
In my late twenties, I visited India for the first time. Everything I saw was interesting. My imagination became sharper, and I felt my creative juices boiling up. Since then, I have visited India many times.・・・

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“Mist, Mountain, and Rivers”
In my mid-thirties, I started feeling lost as to what I should paint. Not getting an award at The Japan Art Institute Exhibition, I felt a kind of slump in my work, I became skeptical about the direction of my paintings.As if running away,・・・

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“Old Man of Pushcar”
Pushcar is a town in India that is famous for its camel market. It’s called a town, but it is a strange place where suddenly poles are put up, tents are built, merchants and restaurants show up, even a temporary theme park.・・・

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“Town Lights”
For a long time, I had been intrigued by city scenes paved with stone that remind me of the history of Europe. I visited Paris, Italy, Spain several times. Then I encountered this scene in Vienna after a rainfall,・・・

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“King”
I had been to India several times for my research, but I did not realize how hard the environment and my life there was until after I started living there with four family members. However,as our house was facing a large park,・・・

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“Moon in February”
I was anxious. I had come here to the middle of Japan to work on a theme I had prepared for years, but I could not find what I was looking for. The thing that should have been there was gone. I wondered about my own memory and wandered around.・・・

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“Cranes in Kibi”
Right: “Calling Birds”　Left: “Birth”
In the past few years, I have visited places in Okayama Prefecture frequently. Besides the wonderful scenery of Setonaikai, I was surprised by the cranes that were released from Korakuen for the New Year.・・・

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“Parting, Cherry Blossoms”
I painted this picture in the year of the seventh anniversary of the death of my teacher, Mr. Hideo Shiode. At Musashino Art University, I was taught by Professor Hideo Shiode, Takehiko Mouri, Takashi Asada, and my work was accepted into ・・・

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