Workshop In Copenhagen
At Cultural Center of the Embassy of Japan (30 June)

	Of course there is no drawings I did at that time. The following illustrations are I've drawn recently based on my hazy memory. But you can see some photos and a report of this event at Website of Club Nippon "Manga Drawing Workshop (30/05/08)" with excellent English! :)
	This workshop was organized by Club Nippon, Embassy of Japan in Denmark made it to introduce experiences of many different aspects of Japanese culture to the members(locals). So they hold many cultural events, workshops, exhibitions, films so on. A flower arrangement, origami. kimno, etc., manga is one of them. Cultural Center of the Embassy of Japan was not large--something like a school classroom. We put some original drawings and printouts on wall which I brought form home for the workshop in Frankfurt(see the image) and carried desks and chairs in as many as we could (we, I mean I helped it ^_^) because of the member of entries--we got many. As I mentioned, the members of Club Nippon are people who are interested in Japanese culture. So there are many generations, many interests--and the participants we got were, too. From seniors to kids. Thought about it, I've never had seniors as audience. My own generation--perhaps older a little--that's all. Were they interested in Manga? Had they read or watched Manga or Anime?? I had a chance to talk to an participant--elderly lady before the workshop. As I thought, she had no idea about Japanese manga, just came there from her curiosity. Well, very reasonable. In first place-- from what I've heard--Japanese manga-anime has been just introduced here, not long ago.

OK, that--even seniors are interested in our work-- is great. I don't know if it come from Danish character, but I'm quite doubtful the same thing would happen in Japan. I mean, not manga, something new from outside. How about in your country? By the way, I got a chance to have a chat with the lady again after the session. She showed me the note she had taken during the workshop and said enjoyed. The note was in detail very much and had nice drawings. I was so impressed and sooo relieved ! *laughter*

That was an ordinary(?) workshop, about 2hours. Some had no experiences at all but some had been skilled. For such a various participants, all I could do was showing some basic ideas and skills. Not in detail not technical. Succeed? I don't know, but some people said they enjoyed it!! *giggle*

The participants helped me a lot--very kind :), I got many questions. How to draw "cute animals", "the difference between a boy and a girl" and--I was amused with this--"the way to drawing elderly people".

Anyway, I could have carried on all the time thanks for the questions,--in addition to that, I got some
laughs from audience--I think it was--well, OK.

My bodily movement might have been overzealous "a little bit". Mr.O(he arranged this workshop) told me later, "you were moving, well--dynamically!". Ha ha, no wonder. You had to do something to overcome a stage fright when you were in front of more than 40 people (^.^;)

	KomicDK
	KomicsDK(International comic festival in Copenhagen) had been scheduled during my stay in Copenhagen, they asked me to attend there. They already had had Japanese guests Kohei and Tsugumi Nishino, they were manga artist and teaching manga in Kyoto Seika University. I was a kind of lucky bonus for them, a guest without any expense.;) A short interview with them(Mr. Mrs Nishino) and autographs. Actually it seemed pointless because there was no my works (Wedding Peach or whatsoever) in Danish. But some of them knew Wedding Peach by German or English version, and even even if they didn't know, it was not bad getting something cute manga drawing from someone...maybe. The interview was very basic because of my "unpopularity". But there was one question amused me. "There is something so-called 'Kanzume"in Japan. That means editors--very mean and merciless one--keep manga artist in a hotel room till the artist finish their work, to avoid runaway and make the final dead line. Is that true?" Oh boy !lol When the last time I've heard the word ? Where they got the idea from?? It was a manga-jargon. Have you heard it? Yes, it's true, in a way. But it's not common--rather very rare, you hardly see or hear such thing nowadays.(Just my experience, so it could be survive somewhere, I don't know) Rather editors come to artist's studio to watch and wait till the work finish. Working in a hotel room would be difficult and inefficient for many artists. They need many tools, materials, and assistants, you know.(if you were busy enough--and if you were not, and you couldn't make the deadline, you know what it means? "Good bye!").

Workshop(???) In Svendborg

Mr. and Mrs Nishino and I went to Svendburg (about three hours drive from Copenhagen) to give a workshop on 2nd June-- "a kind of" workshop. The business had been just decided the day I arrived at Copenhagen. I had a dinner with some people and one of them came from the city and he(Mr.F)said "Why don't you visit our city? It's very beautiful"---done. Because of the short notice, it was a very small group. They--all girls were leaning Japanese from him, and brought some drawings and paintings. They were very good at--maybe in quite high level in Denmark. There were Nishinos, professional teachers--so not so much I could do. Anyway, I had a pleasant chat with the girls. :) This photo(above) gives you an idea where the place we had. Open air--seaside, actually! There were many people having a fun! Well, how could you get a place for within a few days? laugh Someone from a local newspaper came to cover it, then--Mr.F kindly send me a photo(left) which appeared the paper and it's website. Great, isn't it? ;)
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