Artworks

源氏物語II　早蕨　1995年

作品名としては「源氏物語II」となっているが、菊版半截（47×61）のこのIIシリーズが先に書かれた。五十五帖からなる源氏物語の各帖の話は各々独立しておりながらも連続し展開をとげている。書もまた同様。前帖までに次々と開発された水平、垂直、折線化した波動、それにひねりをまじえ根こそぎの掘起しの筆蝕を重ね、「中の君が匂宮に迎えられ、花の盛りに薫が中の君と対面した」早蕨の帖の世界を織りあげた。

The Tale of Genji II: Sawarabi (Early Ferns), 1995

Although this work is titled The Tale of Genji II, the II series—on kiku-ban paper cut in half (47 x 61 cm)—was actually written first. While each of the fifty-five chapters of the The Tale of Genji is independent, they also play out seamlessly. The same is true of the calligraphy. The horizontal, vertical, and broken-line waves developed one after another through the previous chapter are combined with twists and turns of layered brushstrokes, digging down, revealing and weaving together the world of the “Early Ferns” chapter, in which “Naka no Kimi is welcomed by Niou no Miya, and Kaoru meets her when the blossoms are at their best.”