【The Birth Story of 3D Kanji Art】

The world of calligraphy, expressed with a single brush, breathes with
black and white, yin and yang, and the uniquely Eastern aesthetic of wabi-sabi.

While loving and respecting this deep beauty, deep down in my heart, I always envisioned,

“Can I create new calligraphy using the power and possibilities of color?”

I had such an image in my mind.

For many years, I was passionate about ROCK music, frequented live houses during my student days, and was strongly influenced by Shibuya, where I also worked as a company employee. This led me to seek free and energetic calligraphic art that breaks from tradition.

Driven by that desire, around 2010, I began the challenge of adding paint to color calligraphy.
However, I felt that there were inevitable limitations within the constraint of a flat surface.

Gradually, an intuition arose:

“If I could write three-dimensionally, I could achieve more free expression.”

Guided by that feeling,

in 2019, the challenge of 3D Kanji Art began.

Powerful lines, scattering energy, overlapping colors.
A unique world of calligraphy that fuses the spirituality of traditional calligraphy with the freedom of modern art.

There, a new form of art was born.

Calligraphy × Street Culture

In Western Europe and the Middle East, there is a genre called Calligraffiti (Calligraphy × Graffiti).

A new expression that respects traditional calligraphy while fusing the sensibility of street culture.

When I learned this term,
I had a feeling as if the style I had pursued for many years had finally been given a name.

I want to thoroughly pursue this path from now on as well.

This 3D Kanji Art is not just art. It is an amulet, a prayer itself.
It possesses the power to breathe new energy into a space.

The meanings of “power,” “courage,” “purification,” and “rebirth” residing in each character
resonate with the viewer’s heart and infuse *ki* (energy) into the space.

The skeleton of the kanji emerges three-dimensionally,
and the unique colors layered upon it emit vibrations.
It is truly “Reiwa era amulet art.”

Kanji were originally pictograms symbolizing ritual ceremonies as sacred symbols.
That ancient wisdom is depicted as calligraphy, then actualized three-dimensionally with the energy of the calligraphy, and brought to life with the power of color.

This ROCK-inspired energy kanji art serves as a new form of amulet in modern times, protecting spaces and delivering the energy of prayer.

3D Dragon Art

The noble and strong soul of the dragon, passed down through eternal time.
Calligraphy and painting that embodies its mystery and power in every stroke.

Sublimating the life vibrations emitted by the dynamic movement of ink into three dimensions, and adorning them with vibrant colors to give them the glow of life.

For me, the idea that the blurred lines of calligraphy give birth to dragons, and that dragons emerge as three-dimensional forms from within the calligraphy, was a very natural progression.