Category: Art


  • What is Sumi-e?

    What is Sumi-e?

    Sesshu Toyo, Winter Landscape, c. 1470 (Tokyo National Museum, Japan) Hi everyone! On this website, I state that I’m a sumi-e artist, but what exactly does that mean? So glad you asked! (I’m talking to myself again, aren’t I?) In Japanese, sumi is a type of pitch black ink made from burnt pine soot, and…