New Year's cards

Hi, guys!!

Did you write New Year's cards? I've finished writing them yesyerday's evening. I was so busy last year that I couldn't write them through the end of the year. In this year, I only sent replies to the cards that I received because of my business. Though I was too late to write them, I love to write New Year's cards using Chinese ink and a writing brush. This is because I've learned calligraphy for a long time. I write New Year's cards by hands every year, though today is the IT technology of the Internet age. This is my New Year's card in 2011.

I didn't have much time to write it, so I considered how I wrote it simply. And I considered how I write the words "賀正" in friendly letters. Finally my New Year's card was completed!!



I wrote it all by my writing brush. The Chinese zodiac sign in this year is rabit, so I drew simple monochrome rabit using Chinese ink. I discovered an easy way to draw it!! And I decorated it using a decoration tape♪ However, I wanted to decorate it more, but I had little time to do it because I had to leave Niigata, so I couldn't do it after all. This New Year's card can't be said that a beautiful thing, so in the next year, I want to draw it much better than this year!! I have to allow enough more time for writing it to do that...

By the way, fewer young people are exchanging New Year's cards these days. I was so sad to hear that!! I think, New Year's card is one of the important Japanese cultures, so we must cherish it more.

See you:-)