Aged 86 now, I am gradually feeling older. There are certain things I am no longer to do. Despite this lamentable state , I have created a new form of painting over the past few years, and in January 2024、 I was granted a patent for the Design Cross-Scale. I still have the power to think.

　What is the new form of painting I ponder ?

　In 2015, my book entitled Free Art come out.　At that time, I was overcome by a feeling that was somewhat limp and mushy. This was my intuitive feeling about Japanese culture. I worked on a book based on the idea about gaps peculiar to Japanese culture. In May 2022 ,My book entitled The Eye of Japonism was released. Prior to writing the book, I had a talk with a friend who was an excavation specialist with much　knowledge　about Japan’s Jomon period. I learned a lot from him about Jomon artifacts. When I compared his account of　Jomon　period and its related material with my idea　of Japanese culture ,I felt more and more certain of the gaps in Japanese culture. By regarding Jomon culture as a foundation, it became easier to think about subsequent Japanese culture, and this was the basis on which I worked on The Eye of Japonism.

What I emphasized in the book was that culture of Japan was closely rooted to nature. Japanese people have been intensely attached to nature, and there exists a distinctly Japanese view of the world, which is like a religious faith difficult to explain. In my book , I focused on a literary work　called Hojoki (An Account of My Hut, or My Ten-Foot Hut), an essay by the poet Kamo no Chomei written in 1212. It begins, “Though the river’s current never fails, the water passing, moment by moment, is never the same. Where the current pools, bubbles form on the surface, bursting and disappearing as others rise to replace them, none lasting long. In this world, people and their dwelling places are like that, always changing.” In this view of nature, things that seem absurd to humans are accepted as they are, with an animalistic sensibility. And the attitude of this acceptance of nature is also found in the spirit of Japanese Zen.

　Nature subsumes mountains, rivers and living things. All of these things are destined to disappear someday. I assume that the ancient Japanese held this view. Birth and extinction are principles of nature, and this attitude of acceptance at a profound level must have been strong among the ancient Japanese, especially the Jomon people, who lived in close contact with nature.

　Based on the above thoughts, I have attempted to adapt the worldview that all things will someday disperse and disappear to contemporary painting.​

　My idea offorms of dispersion and disappearance“ can be understood　as a characteristic of Japanese culture as well. I see the disappearance of things, from the viewpoint that humans and nature are one and all, and create forms based on the concept that gaps appear between things since things themselves are destined to disperse and disappear. Although it may be impossible for things to become displaced or separated from each other in this way in the real world, nevertheless I shall adopt this idea in my creative work. This allows me to recognize the existence of things in a new way. This is my conception of a new form of painting.