Category: chigiri-e

  • Autumn poetry scroll documentation

    Autumn poetry scroll documentation

    Chigiri-e waka – Japanese calligraphy poetry scroll on a collage page Medieval Japan had a strong literary tradition of poetry, fiction and drama. Some of these works were even written by female writers. I have created a scroll in this tradition, using the elements that the same writers used at this time. What I have…

  • Chigiri-e: Collage and illumination in Japanese literature

    Here is a class I taught on Chigiri-e in the East Goes East. It talks about the history as well as techniques and my own works

  • Chigiri-e

    Chigiri-e

    Chigiri-e is the Japanese art of torn paper collage. In the coming weeks I plan to discuss in detail some of the ones that I have completed including how they were created and the development of the calligraphy