Japanese calligrapher. Born in Aichi Prefecture.
The meaning of each Kanji in my Artist name is as follows. te is night, i is dancing and # is rabbit. I chose “Night” because I am introverted and like to work in the quiet of the night. “Rabbit” because I am sensitive and timid like rabbits, and “Dance” because of the image of myself drawing freely with a brush at night as if dancing. Therefore, I named myself “1 * ⅝ (Yamato)”

Nov. 2024 Selected, ART OF SHO l Japan Contemporaries Series 11 in NY
                 Exhibited, Flower Postcard exhibition in LA
Oct. 2024 Exhibited, Contours&Strokes a dialogue in Art in NY
Aug. 2024 Exhibited, Japanese calligraphy show in NY

The bottom.
Ever since I was a child, I was more sensitive than others and always trying to read other people's faces.
I was often teased by my classmates about my appearance, and their words hurt me, leading me to believe that I was a “failure.” I became afraid of communicating with others, closed my heart off, and was constantly tormented by loneliness and feelings of inferiority. I couldn't help focusing on only the dark side of things and find any meanings to live.
But even I was able to be myself when I was expressing myself through drawing, writing essays and calligraphy. Especially calligraphy seemed to suit me, and I devoted myself to it for 10 years until the high school entrance exam.
On paper, I could be free without any worry.
After that, I got a job in an office to live a “normal” life, but I couldn't find m true self there, and my heart was always empty.
“What is normal?”
“What does it mean to be yourself?”
“Who am I living for?”

Light and Darkness.
One day, I found amazing phrases that changed my life.
”Everyone is weak.“
”Humans are imperfect. That's why we strive for perfection. That is exactly the perfect form of a human being.“
I thought I had to live strong. I thought I had to be perfect. The spell was broken, and my thinking changed 180 degrees.
”My life is mine. If I can't be ordinary, I'm gonna master being extraordinary. “
I could never forget the joy of calligraphy. Furthermore I realized that the sensitivity that had made it difficult for me to live became an absolute weapon in the expression of calligraphy, and I understood that ”I should become a Japanese calligrapher.“
I was originally interested in overseas countries where individual differences are more easily respected than in Japan, so I wanted to work in calligraphy both in Japan and abroad. Beside my work, I started attending calligraphy classes again and also started studying English.
It was the moment when darkness turned to light.

Life and Death.
In 2022, I underwent a medical checkup and was diagnosed with possible presence of cervical cancer. It was a shocking moment. In 2023, I had surgery, and the results of the pathology test showed that it was fortunately not cancer.
For the first time in my life, I faced my own ”death“ and realized that ”time is limited.“ The end will come suddenly. Life is ephemeral. That's why it is so precious.
I swore to myself that I would make the rest of my life for myself, and that if there was something I wanted to do, I had to do it as soon as possible.

Hope.
I believe Japanese calligraphy shows dots of moments, and art does lines of time.
Double writing is strictly prohibited in Japanese calligraphy. There is something fascinating about the unique strength, thickness, blur of the lines, and darkness of the ink created by the mood, weather, writing brush, paper, and sumi ink at the time. You immediately release images in your head onto paper.
On the other hand, art takes time to construct the images on a canvas.
1 want to expand the possibilities of Japanese calligraphy expand by connecting the dots with the lines, and to embody what I have felt inside myself.
If all phenomena in the world are two sides of the same coin, I believe that there is something behind anger, sadness, suffering, and despair, and I want to express them.
Now I understand that everyone feels lonely in some way, and has a darkness that they cannot share with others. I need to tell them,
”You are not lonely but
special.“
To me, this world seems terribly cruel. But this darkness makes me find a ? dazzlingly beautiful light .
I hope that by drawing it, I can give both myself and someone else just a little push forward, even if it's only by a fingertip.