Poetry & Picture

Many of my pictures were born when I met good poems. After starting my art career, I found this was vice versa. And I have worked with many poets.

The English titles are privately translated by Nao Inoue and not formal ones.

1986	Ayako Hori　「調香師の休日」　(Holidays of a Perfume Compounder) Cover
1987	Yuriika Suzuki　「海のバイオリンが聞こえる」　(I Can Hear the Violin of the Sea) Cover & pictures
1986~7	Poetry coterie magazines「ハリー」（Harry）　Covers
2005~6	Long-poetry coterie magazines「ヒポカンパス」（Hippocampus） Covers
2005	Shoichiro Aizawa「パルナッソスへの旅」（The Journey to Parnassus） Cover

Since March in 2005, I've participated in long-poetry coterie magazines 'HIPPOCAMPUS' with poets: Hiroko Okajima, Ruriko Mizuno and Shoichiro Aizawa, presenting the pictures of 'Drifting Fixed-stars series'.

I had created rather large works taking long period, but I tried to create a lot of works, rather small ones.

We held the exhibition 'HIPPOCAMPUS' at ASK? artspace kimura from Jan. 23 to Jan. 28 in 2006, where I exhibited the original 14 drawings of magazines as well as new 20 acrylic works on canvas. Three poets chose their favorite picture, and composed poems each and all. Toshiharu Osugi ( Cyber Poetry Magazine ) compiled them, and this collaboration was realized.

With your click, the poem appears in Japanese.