Happy New Year!! It’s a year of mouse in 2020. Wish you all lots of new challenges and fun!

11th of November in Japan is Origami Day. This traditional paper craft has an old history and it´s something Japanese children learn people around them as they grow. So why it´s Origami Day?

This time, iromegane interviewed a Japanese dancer, Asa Shimada who lives in a small city of Iceland. What made her to dance? Why did she go to Iceland?

Chisai Fujita´s Europe art review 3. She is now in Brussels and Antwerp in Belgium. Let´s see how she take a bite.

Art writer Chisai Fujita´s Europe report 2 is from Barcelona. She met a Japanese artist, Mari Ito in this Historical city of Spain.

Art journalist/writer, Chisai Fujita´s Europe art trip. This is the first bite, Horsens in Denmark. Enjoy the art trip with Chisai.

Kazuhiko Okushita is another single stroke drawing artist. His works extend to animation. Akai Ito, which made him popular became a favourite image of Bill Gates and James Cameron.

Book review “Beginning Bonsai-The Gentle Art of Miniature Tree Growing-. Bonsai is a never-ending art project. Your goal is a perfection that probably you will not achieve in your life time and that is the beauty of it. This book helps you to step into this infinite creation hand by hand.

The mini-calligraphy winner, Floriana has sent me the photo of her receiving the art piece. Here she kindly share it with us.

Thank you for subscribing to iromegane news letter. We like to announce the winner for the mini-calligraphy to show our appreciation.