The world of Mutsumi Hagiiwa in Kitakyushu Manga Museum

Mutsumi Hagiiwa is Japanese manga artist, who have written manga for fourty years. She is known as manga-writer on a girl manga magazine, Ribon. First I read her manga in Ribon, too. My sister bought it and let me read after in elementary school. I loved her manga because her touches and usage of colors …

Hanging around Kokura Castle

It all started when I and wife went for dinner with wife's mother to celebrate Mother's day. We talked about sweets, and it reached to Aakasa Tops's cake that wife and mother ate before. Its shop disappeared in our city years ago. Then I searched on the internet and found that it sometimes have been …

Snoopy Museum in Tokyo

Last week, my wife went for a trip in Tokyo. Accidentally I also had a business appointment in Tokyo the same week. So I asked how about that I would stay around the day of my appointment and view somewhere with her. She said "Well, let's go to Snoopy Museum together." Snoopy Museum? "Ya, it's …

Rusty sketchbook

As I told before, I began to draw on a cheap sketchbook. One and half years have past since then. I still fill into the sketchbook, which is already worn out and just about twenty white pages remain now. Not frequently but little by little, I open the sketchbook when I found something caught my …

Kaii Higashiyama “Nature, Men and Towns” at Kyushu National Museum

Week ago, I went to an exhibition of Kaii Higashyama, named "Nature, Men and Towns"(webpage) at Kyushu National Museum, with my wife and my parents. I and parents have liked his pictures long time and had seen them sometimes. Wife never but through talkings about him with parents, she also want to see. So we …

Musee Marmottan Monet at Fukuoka Art Museum

Weeks ago, I and wife went to Fukuoka Art Museum to view a exhibition of Monet, "Musee Marmottan Monet". I remembered when I was still a student, went to see his pictures with my family 20 years ago. Then I felt the vivid colors and subtle funny structures. I excepted how they would impress to …

Face to a sketchbook

One day, I decided to try sketching the year. I usually had fun with such things in school days and especially liked to draw with pencil, pen, and rarely colored pencils. But after graduated, I never did long time. Then I rushed to buy a cheap sketchbook contained 180 papers and set my goal that …

Fukuoka Prefectural Museum

Weeks ago, I and wife viewed an exhibition at our prefectural museum, "Re : Nexus-PaperWorks' Expression" which concerned to arts of paper. We had fun with the displays. A lot of paperworks there, some were fundamental, back to its materials, others were cultural, humorous, and having consciousness of their makers' messages. Ah, I did not …