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* Pray
2010/08/18 | Filed under Book | Tags .
My newest book, 2nd volume about autumn and winter for wildflowers in Japan,has been released last week.
if somebody asked me how I feel in my mind while I work for painting pictures,
I would answer, I feel like to pray…
The Japanese empress Michiko, said ‘ The imperial family in Japan should be ‘prayer’.’
The ‘pray’ for Nature or worship to Nature is basis of Japanese mentality. Maybe I just have the feeling naturally.
While I was working for the book for wildflowers, I prayed for all the fields and forests full of wild habitat,
May it exist forever.
for next project,I am going to make picture book for animals in our country.
Thanks very much to all the animals,
you supply everyday food for us,
May all the animals and plants be loved, and cared.
May all the animals and humans can live together on the earth.
* Kindle in Japan
2010/01/18 | Filed under Book | Tags .In coming March, the picture book for kids, for which I have translated into Japanese will be released.
The original book is ‘La mission de Seraphine’ text by Sylvie Auzary-Luton, illustration by Myriam Deru, published by Mijade, a Belgian publisher. (Original text was in French, but I was given English text as well.)
For this book, I found it interesting , that the story includes a scene the mouse girl and her friend were so upset that they teased the naughty snail. (Finally happy ending) In Japan, we do not often have this kind of reality in children’s books, so i was impressed about it illustrates kids’ life naturally.
Nice happy story with beautiful and lovely illustrations, i am so delighted to have worked for this book.
By the way , I like to read books in English, and I often purchase from amazon.com directly, not only from amazon. co.jp, so I have got amazon kindle last month.
it’s great! so nice for a person like me who loves reading on the couch.
first I was surprised because it was delivered just 2 days after my order to amazon, shipped directly from the US!
one of my cat ‘nyanka’ also checking the kindle.
at the beginning, i was wondering whether I can know correctly where in the book I am, but it was no worrying. because it shows where we reach by persentage in below on the screen,and I got used to it completely when I was finishing to read the first book in kindle.
The first book i read in kindle is ‘Scat’ by Carl Hiaasen. the suspense story for children, but intresting enough for adults too.
In Japan, e-book business was once collapsed in a few years ago, I think one reason was the shortage of contents. Japanese publishers were not very willing to release the book contents for e-book devices, but I think the overall structure of publishing business in Japan should also face to drastic change shortly… and I am also involved in publishing in Japan, so…what’s next?
Personally I think, especially the visual books are better to have in real paper book style, while the books with just text can definitely work well on e-books. So those paper books will persue more ‘ substantial beauty’ , then it will be more closer to ‘gift’ (which we call ‘zakka’ in Japanese, in spite not meaning exactly ‘gift’ but I think it indicates same kind of goods as ‘gifts’), with beautiful design, paper stuffs and so on.
* New Book
2009/04/06 | Filed under Book, Flower | Tags .
My Newest book will be released at the end of this month (April 2009). This book is coming with full colour illustrations for wildflowers grown in Japan. I have done all of the illustrations and texts and it took almost for 4 years since the project started until it will be out!
these days , it is getting really spring here. In taking a walk around my home, I found various wildflowers blooming and I remind of the same season in last year, I went out to get them for sketching.
Above right is the cover of the book ‘Nonohana Ehon’(means Picture book for Wildflowers’), and the left is the one of my sketchings for this book.( I’ve used the technique to make the paper look old )
* Flower Sketches
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