Whew, it's been for a while!

I really hesitate to write this blog since I don't have much confidence in my English, but I decided to write some today since I noticed that some people were very kind to write comments to mu blog. Thank you very much.
I created my website "Okamel's World" last year and am uploading my recent works irregularly. It's a great pleasure to know that some people are interested in my pics, and a person suggested me to draw comics. But for the moment I'm not get used to use pens and I don't know which paper is good to draw them. For the moment I'm using several kinds of postcard-sized paper such as paper for watercolour, Kent paper, Watson paper and so on. When I have much confidence in my drawing skill with pen, I may start drawing comics.
Until them , please enjoy my simple pics!

One of my Favourite Warriors

Recently I'm crazy about drawing this person...

Some people may notice a part of this picture...yes, I'm using "his" face as my avatar (although I'm a woman!!). He is one of my favourite warriors Hanbei Takenaka (1544-1579) and famous as a staff officer of Hideyoshi Toyotomi. In my Japanese blog I'm introducing pictures I drew based on a story "Taikouki" which tells about Hideyoshi Toyotomi. If you want to know about this story please check Wikipedia. There are several versions of the story and I think there is an English version of "Shinsyo Taikouki" written by Eiji Yoshikawa. I want to get the English version of it to compare both versions, but I haven't been able to find the English version...
Well, see you next time.

The season of cherry blossoms

It's the season of cherry blossoms viewing here. There are some good places to enjoy them near my house, but I don't know if I go somewhere to do it...
Arashiyama in Kyoto is one of the most famous places for cherry blossoms (and perhaps autumn-tinted mountains) and there is a Noh story "Arashiyama" based on the history of cherry trees around there. This time I'll introduce the picture I drew based on the story.

The man on the right is Zao-Gongen (Gongen in an avatar of Buddha) and a main character of the story (it's called Shite in Noh).
If you can read Japanese, I've got another blog, so please visit there as well. Well, see you next time.

Hello!

My name is okamel. I'm Japanese and I've just finished the Master's course and got a master's degree in philosophy this March. One of my pastimes is drawing pictures and I'm going to introduce some of them on this page. Some of them are related with Japanese history, some are with Japanese culture...
Although my English ability isn't good enough to explain complicated things such as history and culture, I'll do my best, so I hope you enjoy visiting this blog!
Today, I'm going to introduce this one.

This is one of the pictures I drew for New Year's cards. There is a famous old story "Inaba no Shirousagi (a white rabbit in Inaba)" in Japan and I drew this based on that story. Actually it is rare I apply colours to my pictures...usually just draw with pencils.
Well, see you next time!