Have you visited Japan?
This picture was painted with the inspiration from the Japanese pond at HAKONE garden,Saratoga, California.
HIROKO, who has lived in San Francisco leaving her home town in Japan for a long time, had been fighting
with some heavy homesick feeling. In those time, she had gotten some chances to visit this beautiful place for
her friend's tea ceremony. She says " It was like a miracle! As soon as i breathed the air there, listening the sound
of bamboo leaves, all my sickness had gone. I felt like my heart had started beating again."
KOI fish (carp) has been one of very popular subjects to be painted with its beautiful colors and exotic
mood. they are told swimming jewelry. In this HIROKO's painting, you can drift in far away east fantasy.
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