Tomoko KAWAO

JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHER Calligrapher Began calligraphy at the age of six. Has won a large number of domestic and international competitions ever since. In 2004, studied under the well-known artist, calligrapher Sho-Shu, "Ko-Oh", or "Call and Response", her own series of works. With the original series, she aims to make what’s invisible visible, as in the empty space between two dots, there is a trajectory of the brush in the air only imaginative ones can see. Also, as her "Calligraphy in everyday life" activity, she undertakes the wide variety of calligraphic projects in numerous fields and media, including the signage of the Arashiyama train station of Hankyu-Arashiyama line, name tablets for temples and shrines, compositions and sumi expressions for newspapers, TV and radio programs, fashion and interior products, and so forth, and highly praised. Currently lives in Kyoto. BA from Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts.