Shukado News Letter No.23 Hope

Dear Customers & Friends,
Hello from Ginza,Tokyo.

This is Chiaki Tanaka sending Shukado Newsletter No.23

Media's economic indicator is always low.

Even when I'm watching the streets in Tokyo through the window of taxi, I have an impression that the traffic is decreasing by approx. 20% compared to the last two years.
Although Tokyo has a bad reputation of the heavy traffic since long time ago, we can smoothly get to the destination these days.

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I will pick up some of our updated art works on our website.

An antique scroll painting depicting dancing beauty.
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/list2/108004920/
Female Monk by Utagawa Kunihisa
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/list2/108005710/
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I heard that the number of foreign tourists is decreasing as well.

So, couldn't we find any hope in the world ?

Of course, I don't think so.

One of the reasons I say so is that a lot of driving ranges are almost always full. It says that there still are a lot of people who can enjoy their hobby and spend money for that. Also, I have an opinion that the drop in stock prices provides a chance of making money. Although investors suffer latent loss, they would be buying other stocks not to miss the chance. A lot of companies should be rebuilding management in order to raise their profit.

It is true that car sale is sluggish in both Japan and the USA. But it is also true that a lot of people need cars in any situation. When the need and supply will have normalized, car industry would get back the proper balance.


As for our company, the number of visitors to our website, Japanese Fine Arts, is increasing little by little, besides the visitors who subscribed to the membership of our catalogue are steadily increasing. It says people who love art exist in any situation.

Cf. Request Page for our Catalogue SHUKADO
http://www.syukado.jp/en/catalog/


On the other day, I joined a lecture by Prof. Takeshi Yoro, famous brain scientist in Japan, and heard an interesting story. He said, in fact, in the world, what brain can grasp or what the science can explain is only a part of it. We should know about it.

Also, according to him, 70% of Japanese people think they would be trusting what the science has defined at 30 years from now while only 30% of American people say yes. I'm wondering if their religion affects on their thoughts. What about people in Europe or China? Anyway, it seems that Japanese people trust the science, theory too much.

Prof. Yoro also mentioned on the second law of thermodynamics, law of entropy increase, and said, once the world is given the order, it begins to bring chaos. In my opinion, the trading of CO2 emission is nothing but a logic and very dangerous.

Cf.Second law of thermodynamics by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics


The art is so-called a culture of right brain. It brings a chaotic element into the logical world. Therefore, it is what this left-brain society absolutely needs. That's why the art is never gone.

It looks that the need of art is lower in Japan than in the USA and Europe, but it was different before. Maybe Japanese people lost their mental richness at the defeat of war, and worked hard and saved money in order to catch up with other big countries. They also lost virtue, modesty and thoughtfulness. The fact that a lot of Japanese people trust the science looks signifying their heart is thirsty.

So please have an interest in Japanese art and say "Japan is a good country", and let us find it again. We are keep working not to be made fool of, not to be colonized, and now exhausted.

As you will find when looking at Japanese antiques, the Japanese culture used to be casual and playful. At the same time, it has also reflected thoughts of death and absence on its artworks. We should be proud of our history, but the number of suicide is about 30,000 a year, almost 6 times more than the death by traffic accident.

Cf. Suicide in Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan


Actually,I have expected to introduce you Kayama Matazo, one of important artists in Japan, passed away in 2000. But the prologue became too long. Next time, I promise.

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Last Pick Up of today.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Famous series of Tsuki-hyaku-shi / Hundred aspects of the Moon
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0311
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0302

Hiroshige's dynamic sceneries
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0227

Yoshitoshi's Newspapaer of "Hochi-Shinbun"
Bloody Newspaper print like the Sweeney Todd by Tim Burton...
http://www.japanese-finearts.com/item/search.php?md=0225


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