Kumagai Tsuneko Memorial Museum Kana no Bi Exhibition "Kumagai Tsuneko and her three great essays - focusing on 'The Pillow Book', 'Idle Essays' and 'Hojoki'"

　Calligrapher Kumagai Tsuneko (1893-1986) was a leading female calligrapher of kana calligraphy during the Showa period.
　This exhibition will introduce works that deepened Tsuneko's knowledge of kana calligraphy, focusing on the three great essays that represent Japanese classical literature: "The Pillow Book," "Tsurezuregusa," and "Hojoki." "The Pillow Book" is an essay that is said to have been written by Sei Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi (Empress of Emperor Ichijo) during the Heian period. Tsuneko respected Sei Shonagon's calligraphy in "The Pillow Book" as a model for kana calligraphy.

　"Tsurezuregusa" is a collection of poems and essays scattered by Yoshida Kenko, who served as a samurai for Emperor Go-Uda during the Kamakura period, after he became a monk and lived in Shinryu-in (the Yoshida family temple) in Yoshida, Kyoto, and in a hermitage in Iga, Mie. Tsuneko's interest in kana calligraphy deepened with the help of the "Tsurezuregusa" foldout book.

　This exhibition will feature works such as Autumn is Evening Glow (1935), which uses Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book as its subject and expresses the prologue to the book in a scroll, All Things (1971), which is based on Yoshida Kenko's Tsurezuregusa, As It Is (1976), which begins with the prologue to Tsurezuregusa, and Yuku ka no (1975), the opening of The Hojoki, a work by the Kamakura period monk Kamo no Chomei, which records his view of the impermanence of the world. Please enjoy Tsuneko's calligraphy, which was developed into works based on her three great essays, The Pillow Book, The Tsurezuregusa, and The Hojoki.

Kana calligraphy workshop: "The beauty of Kana that soothes the soul with ink and brush"
日時：①9月13日（土）10：00～13：00　②9月14日（日）12：30～15：30
Eligibility: ① Ages 5 to junior high school students (children in the third grade of elementary school or below must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, but parents may also participate) ② High school students and above
Venue: Ota Cultural Forest Assembly Rooms 3 and 4
Capacity: 20 people each time (If the capacity is exceeded, a lottery will be held)
Deadline: Must arrive by Friday, March 8
Application: Please apply by postcard, fax, or the application form below (up to 3 people per postcard)

Please write the desired date, postal code, address, name (in hiragana), age, phone number (if sending by fax, a fax number where we can reply), and the desired number of people (up to 3 people) on a "reply postcard" or by fax to the address below. *Please write the address and name of the representative on the reply postcard.

For applications and inquiries, please contact: Ota City Ryushi Memorial Museum "Kumagaya Tsuneko Kana Calligraphy Workshop" 143-0024-4 Chuo, Ota-ku, Tokyo 2-1 TEL/FAX: 03-3772-0680

9) Saturday, September 13th: For ages 5 to junior high school students　Applications are now closed.

②Sunday, September 9th (for high school students and above)　Applications are now closed.

〇For a limited time only! Autumn garden open to the public
日時：年11月1日（土）～11月3日（月・祝）　各日9：00～16：30（入園16：00まで）
Price: Included in admission fee
Venue: Kumagai Tsuneko Memorial Hall