ADF (NPO Aoyama Design Forum) will host calligrapher Yoshiko Nakayama's "Zen Words Calligraphy Exhibition" as the 16th "ADF Art Gallery Project" art exhibition from October 7 (Friday) to October 17, 2022 (it will run through Monday).

ADF will hold a special exhibition of some of the recent works of "Zen Words in Writing" (Asahi Shimbun Publishing), published in March 2022 which featured Yoshiko Nakayama's calligraphy works.

The calligrapher sent a comment to the ADF.
"Based on the meaning of each word, I have expressed it sometimes gently and sometimes violently.
The interesting thing about calligraphy is that you can convey different expressions with your own unique view of the world.

I also want many people to know calligraphy as a traditional and rich culture. I hope that this exhibition will make you interested in calligraphy or want to try it. I am very happy.

At the exhibition site, I will also play an entertaining and easy-to-understand video of "Nobunaga and Yoshiko Nakayama's Beautiful Letter Lesson (Hiragana)". If you are not familiar with the world of calligraphy, please take a moment to watch the Bimoji lessons that you can apply to your daily life."

・一期一会
・日々是好日
・柔軟心
・脚下照顧
・無功徳
・以心伝心
・語先後礼
・行雲流水
・日々新又日新, and more

Chairman of Japan Calligraphy Development Association. Representative director of Field Design Co, Ltd.
She is very committed to spreading calligraphy and is active both in Japan and abroad, holding calligraphy events at local universities as part of the 130th anniversary project of diplomatic relations between Japan and Thailand, and holding calligraphy exhibitions for young people in Kyoto.
She is a calligraphy judge on Fuji TV's Entertainment World Special Skill King Decision Battle TEPPENprogram , teaches beautiful characters in many programs of TV, and is also a book author and lecturer throughout the country. She has held eight solo exhibitions in Tokyo (Omotesando, Shibuya) and Kyoto. While running "Field Design," a company that teaches business skills acquired during his career as an executive secretary at Toyota Motor Corporation, he studied martial arts and bushido at college and performed the stage play "Sengoku Renka" (Shibuya), based on the Ring States period. He contributed to the succession of Japanese culture and the development of society by collaborating on several general productions of the Densho Hall series. Their books include "Adult Taste Beautiful Pen Letter Practice Book" (Asahi Shimbun Publishing), "Hannya Shinkyo Practice Book to Prepare Your Large Heart" (Seitosha) and many others.

"Clear Your Mind! Zen Words You Can Write and Arrange" (Asahi Shimbun Publishing) Release March 2022.
Yoshiko Nakayama/Author (Book/Model), Toshiaki Masuno/Supervisor.

Date: October 7 (Friday) to October 17 (Monday), 2022
Hours: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (until 4:00 p.m. on the last day)
Venue: GARDE Gallery (5-2-1 ALLIANCE Building 4F, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
Closed days: None
Admission: Free
Contact: Nakayama 070-6519-8123