SISYU
Sisyu is a Japanese artist heir of SHO, calligraphy, one of the oldest Japanese aesthetic traditions, which boasts a history spanning 1300 years. With her technique, Sisyu fuses Japanese calligraphy with various artistic media, such as sculpture, multimedia arts and painting. She took Buddhist orders at Todai-ji Temple.
Then Emperor and Empress (His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus and Her Majesty the Empress Emerita) and Their Imperial Highnesses Crown Prince and Crown Princess Akishino visited the exhibition “SISYU”, and she had the honor to guide them through the exhibition.
Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado visited a Sisyu’s exhibition.
She created calligraphy for Ise-Jingu Shrine, Kashihara-Jingu Shrine, and Kasuga Taisha. At Kinpusenji Temple, she burnt “the hell paintings” for prayer.
At the Milano International Exhibition in Italy, she worked on the entrance to the Japanese Pavilion, which won a gold award in the exhibition design category.
In Le Salon, organized by Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts at the Carousel Du Louvre, Paris, she got both the Gold Prize and the Jury’s Prize Gold Award for the first time as a Japanese artist, and gained a reputation of “Hokusai flattened 3D into 2D, and Sisyu liberates flat letters into 3D.”
