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I am a self-taught painter born in 1995. The themes of my work are eyes, history, eternity, and religion. I hope you will take the time to enjoy my work.

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I create paintings and sell them online.

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Why not enjoy decorating your room with paintings? Decorating your room with paintings will give you a sense of elegance on a daily basis. If you decorate an empty wall in your room with a framed painting, it will make the room look more gorgeous. I would like to contribute to your wonderful daily life with my paintings.

Even if you are going through difficult or sad times, looking at a painting can help heal your heart. Paintings should not only be enjoyed in museums, but should be enjoyed on a daily basis in your own home.

Doing so will help reduce your depressing worries and anxieties, improving the quality of your life.

I believe that painting can help you live a wonderful life.

I am a painter called Takamizawa Mimi.

My name is Mimi Takamizawa and I am a self-taught artist. I hope to bring some joy, joy and inspiration to your daily life through my paintings.

The themes of my work are eternity, history, eyes, gaze and religion. Eyes are very emotional and speak more eloquent than words. Perhaps everything you come into contact with in your daily life has eyes that are watching you.

My current works are created on a digital screen and then printed on paper after completion.

I use a printing method called giclee printing, which uses pigments and is very durable.

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Born on September 5, 1995, from Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Self-introduction

From an early age, I had a deep interest in artists. Over the course of the long history of mankind, whether famous or not, they have overcome many hardships in life and continued to create many great works in various fields such as painting, sculpture, design, literature, and music. have left Every time I see the works of such great people, I want to walk through that kind of life. thinking about.

If you were born into this world, isn’t it human nature to want to leave this world and leave something behind in the history of this world and humankind?

Human beings have what it takes to leave their own descendants, ideas that influence future generations, courageous personalities that inspire people, kind behavior that makes this world a little more pleasant, businesses and inventions that enrich many people.

I think that you can deeply realize that there was value that was born by leaving something behind.Ever since I was a child, I have loved　drawing.

In my teens, I was influenced by various painters and started producing works on my own.I would be happy if there were people who saw my work and felt something or enjoyed it even a little.

Born on September 5, 1995, from Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Who influenced me

Van Gogh, Monet, Velázquez, Vermeer, Cézanne, Warhol, Picasso, Tsuguharu Foujita, Yayoi Kusama, Shuji Terayama, Osamu Dazai, Basho Matsuo, Naomi Uemura, Ichizo Kobayashi, Taizo Ishida, Takeo Fujisawa, Sakichi Toyoda, Hokusai Katsushika, Ray Kroc, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Toshifumi Suzuki, and Tokuji Munetsugu.

What is Giclee Printing?

Giclée printing is a high-quality art printing technique. It is a method of printing digital images in high resolution using an inkjet printer. Giclée printing is particularly suitable for reproducing artworks and photographs, and is characterized by extremely high color reproduction.

Giclee printing typically uses arch files (durable paper or canvas) and lightfast inks to create prints that will not fade over time, which is why it is often used by artists and photographers to sell their work.

It has better light resistance than lithography and silkscreen reproduction methods, and the colors have a proven high light resistance of 150 to 250 years.

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My biggest concern in my work

The thing I’m most particular about in my work is the composition of the image. I believe that all great two-dimensional artworks in the world, including paintings, photographs, films, animation, and manga, share a common composition.

Regardless of the content or color used, many of the greatest works of art in history share the same composition. Velázquez’s “Las Meninas,” Van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night,” Vermeer’s “The Art of Painting,” and Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa” all share the same composition, making them almost like siblings.

Despite being created in different locations, by different artists, and in different eras, these works share the same approach to composition. Conversely, they are completely different paintings apart from their composition, and I believe that more than 95 percent of the quality of a two-dimensional artwork lies in its composition.

What is generally thought of as Van Gogh’s greatness as a painter is the beauty of his colors, his unique touch, and his thick paintwork, but I don’t think these are the essence of his skill as a painter.

The core of Van Gogh’s work is his perfect composition, which he likely learned through his study of Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige.

Hokusai and Hiroshige’s masterpieces use Western-style compositions that had not existed in Japanese painting up until that point. Hokusai and Hiroshige learned Western composition from Dutch studies, which were popular in Japan at the time.

The perfect compositions of Velázquez and Vermeer were passed on to Van Gogh through Hokusai and Hiroshige.

The works of Japan’s leading film directors, Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, have received such acclaim overseas, likely due to their stunning composition. Ozu’s meticulous attention to composition is well-known, and the influence of his beloved ukiyo-e art is evident.

While films from his heyday, such as Seven Samurai and Ikiru, are exemplary of perfect composition, the poor quality of his later color films likely reflects Kurosawa’s focus on superficial advances in film technology, which led to a decline in his commitment to composition.

While using the best technology available at the time is natural, what’s important is the approach to composition, which is timeless. While superficial technology may continue to improve in the present and future, most contemporary paintings will never be able to surpass the works of Velázquez or Hokusai.

The human eye and the human brain have not changed over the years, so the standards for determining the quality of flat still images, landscapes, and videos remain the same.

The core of the technology for not boring the human gaze is composition and gradation. A great work of art is one that can captivate the human eye.

You can look at it for hours without getting bored. No matter how many times you look at it, you are captivated.

You want to look at it again tomorrow, whether you saw it yesterday, today, or tomorrow.

On the other hand, I don’t think you can stare at many boring works of art for 10 seconds. Poor composition fails to satisfy the human brain.

I believe that the invention of photography, which alarmed artists, led them to mistakenly abandon timeless compositions, has led to the decline of painting today and the mass production of inferior works that are unpopular with many.

The problem faced by artists when photography first emerged was that they became focused on accurately capturing the subject in front of them, like in the photographs used in illustrated books, and forgot the essential quality of composition.

The precise capture required for an illustrated book or photograph is different from the technique of good painting.

Many critics of Velázquez’s Las Meninas praise its elegant brushwork, but its true essence lies elsewhere.

The painting’s masterful qualities lie in the canvas, which creates the foreground, the human figure superimposed in the middle, which creates a sense of distance, and the strong contrast created by the door and the king in the background.

The composition used in this painting is the same as Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

The large waves are the same as the canvas in the foreground, and a strong contrast is used between the king, the door, and Mount Fuji in the background.

Focusing on the rough brushstrokes and thick paintwork of Van Gogh’s works is an insult to his work.

Even if you print “Café Terrace at Night” on a poster, which does not convey the materiality of the thick paintwork, it still feels wonderful because of its excellent composition.

The blue window frame at the very front of the cafe terrace emphasizes the foreground of the picture.

The strong contrast of yellow and black in the background draws the eye to the background.

There is also a strong contrast in the foreground, creating a composition in which the foreground and background draw the eye to each other.

The fact that composition has such a major impact on the quality of a two-dimensional work is evidenced, I believe, by the rise of film, manga, and animation, which continue to use compositions that many painters have abandoned.

My works are available for purchase on several internet sites. They are all limited edition pieces with limited quantities.

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About my work

My work has emerged from within my own mind during my training. It is for this reason that it is completely different from the work of my contemporaries.

It is directly connected to my life and my life. Naturally, I was a boy who drew pictures and made things as a child. Later, I spent much of my time studying art as a student.

I wasn’t a good student, so rather than learning directly from school, I trusted my own interests and was directly influenced by the work of great artists of the past. In that sense, I am a completely self-taught artist.

As an adult, I took a year off from painting and art, but I returned to the art world. I realized that I don’t even have the ability to create good paintings, and that doing anything else would be a waste of time.

I don’t know how many more years I have. I’m 99.9% certain that my current skills won’t allow me to create works that will go down in history. I am fully aware that I am a third-rate, incompetent artist.

However, realizing in my teens and twenties that I didn’t have much talent was the greatest blessing of my life. I believe life is like the tortoise and the hare.

I intend to devote all my time to art, aiming to elevate myself from a third-rate painter to at least a second-rate one by the time I die.

My works are a condensed version of the wisdom, knowledge, and techniques I’ve learned over the past 30 years.

My techniques are still immature, and my works are by no means complete, but I spend every hour except for sleep working, striving to approach the works of my respected artists, such as Van Gogh, Velázquez, Vermeer, and Katsushika Hokusai. In fact, even my dreams about painting are about painting.

It’s difficult to devote all my time to one thing, but even when I need to be doing other things, I find myself thinking about masterpieces from the past.

Because everything created by humans that we see before our eyes was conceived in someone’s mind, I believe it’s important above all else to constantly think and to exert my hands and body.

Painters and other trades are all the same

The job of a painter is exactly the same as any other job or business in the world. I believe that it is those who work repeatedly every day, with no play or rest, and who have been dedicated to their work for many years, who are able to produce the best products, goods, and artworks.

Humans cannot maintain perfect concentration all the time, so it’s important to know how much time you can devote to it each day. It’s difficult, but if you can keep doing it seven days a week without a single day off for decades, and gradually improve and make progress, I believe you can produce amazing work.

Suntory Founder: Shinjiro Torii

“I’ve been struggling with alcohol for over 60 years. No matter how stupid you are, after 60 years you’ll understand things. And money is a little bit much.”

Shinjiro Torii (1879-1962)

Quoted from Wikipedia

McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc

“There is nothing more valuable in this world than persistence. Talent is different. There are many talented people who fail. Genius is different. There are so many underprivileged geniuses in this world that it has become a proverb. Education is also different. The world is full of educated dropouts. Only faith and persistence are omnipotent.”

“Be daring，Be first，Be different”

“People think I was an overnight success, but that overnight was 30 years. It’s been a long, long night.”

“You cannot find happiness by walking across a rope placed on the floor”

CoCo Ichibanya Founder: Tokuji Munetsugu

“I will continue to work diligently. I want to grow and develop this business that I started with a strong sense of ambition, so I will work harder than anyone else, cherishing the customers in front of me and feeling grateful. It is through this that I will find clues for tomorrow.”

“Don’t look away, devote yourself to management”

“CoCo Ichibanya’s system has been meticulously developed through repeated trial and error, so it’s no good just imitating the surface.”

“When I was still working, I had no hobbies and no friends. I never went to a bar. I never did anything that would get in the way of my work. There were times when I worked 5,640 hours a year. I thought that if I didn’t lead by example, my subordinates wouldn’t work.”

“Customer first, hands-on approach”

“Nothing works out the first time, so don’t give up and keep trying. Business is a daily accumulation of work, and it requires gratitude. Work 5,640 hours a year (15.5 hours a day, 365 days a year).”

“I get up at 5am every morning and am the first one to arrive at the office. I read through postcards in which customers have written their opinions and complaints. When I go on business trips, I visit restaurants that are open late at night. I can’t help but worry about the small details that the manager doesn’t seem to care about. Running a restaurant is a matter of accumulating small details. Is it 60 points or 70 points? That difference makes a difference in the quality of the restaurant. It was my role to nitpick at the smallest details.”

“Managers should not think they have any abilities. If they decide they don’t have much ability, they can work hard to do something about it.”

Seven-Eleven founder: Toshifumi Suzuki

“Like a stone wall, we have built a solid foundation, which is why we are able to launch products that are both high quality and convenient, and create new demand.”

“Selling on a budget is the strategy with the highest probability of failure.”

“If you neglect the basics and try to buy things cheaply by purchasing in bulk and then sell them at low prices, I don’t think you’ll be able to win the competition.”

Nike Founder Phil Knight

“If you want to open a restaurant but aren’t prepared to work 23 hours a day in the kitchen, don’t do it.”

“I dedicate myself to the shoe business and never think or talk about anything other than shoes.”

“Even if everyone laughs at your idea, just keep going until you get there.”

Choya Plum Wine by Kondo Sumitaro

“If you succeed with plum wine, be happy, but if you don’t, give up on life.”

“Give up on life positively”

When asked if he would end up out on the streets if he failed, he replied, “All I can do is try my best now. If I think about that, I won’t be able to do anything.”

I try to get ideas from industries that are completely unrelated to my own. This is because if I take inspiration from the methods of people in the same industry, I end up doing something similar to what everyone else is doing. If I’m doing the same thing as everyone else, there must be something wrong. If I just follow the same lines as everyone else, there’s no value in it.

Furthermore, all businesses and jobs in the world that thrive are founded on sincerity and hard work. Businesses that build their foundations thoroughly, like building a stone wall, always become the best in Japan or the world.

I wanted to improve my own illustration work, so I researched various companies and businesses. Over the past few years, I’ve bought and devoured about 300 books on the history of companies and businesses. There are commonalities among good companies that are worthy of reference.

What Japanese businesses should we emulate?

Toyota Motor Corporation, Kyocera, CoCo Ichibanya, Choya Umeshu, Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Suzuki Motor Corporation, and 7-Eleven.

What they have in common is their dedication to quality, meticulous attention to detail, and a hands-on approach.

Many good companies continue to operate on-site, even after becoming large corporations, with small store owners living on the second floor or nearby and working 24 hours a day.

Unlike Nissan Motors, which has its headquarters and management in the city, far from its production sites, Toyota Motors and Suzuki Motors have their headquarters and factories next to each other and remain in the countryside, which is impressive.

I believe that Toyota Motor Corporation and Suzuki Motor Corporation have continued to grow because their managers and senior employees have continued to walk around and improve their factories, which are the foundation of their manufacturing business.

Van Gogh and Sakichi Toyoda

Also, I think that Van Gogh, a painter I respect, and Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of the Toyota Group, are very similar people.

Sakichi Toyoda was a man who dedicated his life to inventing and improving the loom, the founding business of the Toyota Group.

Here are some anecdotes from books written about Sakichi Toyoda.

“Work didn’t go as planned, and I suffered many hardships. Every day, from morning to night, I would make something, then destroy it, build it, then rebuild it again. People around me treated me like an eccentric, a madman.”

“Since ancient times, inventors have always been poor, alienated from humanity, and ultimately oppressed. Only after experiencing the sorrows of all humanity can they finally achieve their greatest ambitions.”

“Sakichi Toyoda lived a solitary, secluded life, day in and day out inventing. He never showed his face in high society, never sought fame, had no hobbies or interests, and would shut himself up in a room from morning to night, immersed in inventions with just a pencil and a piece of paper.”

In this way, I believe that the personalities and daily lives of Sakichi Toyoda and the painter Van Gogh are very similar. It is no wonder that they had such a great influence on the lives of so many people for a long time after their deaths.

Sakichi Toyoda (1867-1930)

Producing paintings using the Toyota Production System

Toyota Motor Corporation, one of Japan’s leading major companies, is a very instructive company.

I believe that the Toyota Production System, the concept that developed Toyota into the world’s number one automobile company, can be applied to any industry. In particular, all manufacturers (including painters) should practice it. The Toyota Production System is also at the core of my basic ideas for producing paintings. Producing cars, whiskey, and paintings is the same thing.

The Toyota Production System is a production method devised by the founder Sakichi Toyoda and his son Kiichiro Toyoda. This method is based on two central ideas.

1.　Human-centered automation

“Detect abnormalities, stop when abnormalities occur, stop when abnormalities occur”

Since the Meiji and Taisho eras, the machines made by Sakichi Toyoda have had a mechanism that would automatically stop if a defective product was produced.

2. Just-in-time

“Make what you need, in the quantities you need, every day.”

“Just make it in time, don’t make too much.”

These two ideas were devised because the Toyota Group was originally poor. The Toyota Production System, which minimizes defective and unsellable products, is the foundation of Toyota’s high profitability.

Its purpose is to eliminate waste while improving product quality. The Toyota Production System can improve the financial health of a business.

Toyota became a wealthy company known as Toyota Bank, and used the large amount of funds it had saved for research and development, which meant that other companies could not catch up.

Kiichiro Toyoda (1894~1952)

Quoted from Wikipedia

Toyota Motor Corporation Quotations

Here are some words that I think about while creating a painting:

“Protect your own castle”

“Stingy business practices”

“True stinginess is the expression of frugality. The earnestness of Goshu merchants is to be as frugal as possible and eliminate waste in business”

“Country spirit”

“Indomitable fighting spirit”

“Perseverance”

“Everything in life is a challenge. Everything in a challenge is fighting spirit and effort”

“Good products, good ideas”

“Purity and hard work are important. Don’t spare any effort. Don’t be afraid of hard work”

“It’s not about making it for yourself or selling it to others. You must have the feeling that you are being bought from them, that you are being allowed to make it”

“Don’t spare any effort. Don’t be afraid of hard work. Stubborn and greedy, … He has deep insight and is straightforward in everything he does. This is Toyota’s greatest virtue.

“Sell something that cost 10 yen to make for 11 yen. In this case, 1 yen is a fair profit. And if no one is willing to buy it for 11 yen, find a way to sell it for 10 yen. To do this, you must reduce costs to 9 yen. So, find a way to do that.”

“Real competition is selling the originality of a company, selling the technology and services that are unique to that company. Of course, it’s even better if you can make it cheaper. The key is to compete on the value of the product itself.”

“Do it with strong conviction. Everyone thinks the same way, and Kiichiro was not a genius. What’s important is not just thinking about something that is generally thought to be impossible, but having a strong conviction that it had to be done no matter what, he made sufficient preparations and then carried it out.”

“Don’t think mechanically. Even a dry towel can get water out if you use your ingenuity.”

“The price of a product is determined by the customer. Profits are determined by cost reduction. Cost reduction is “Inventions are determined by pursuing manufacturing from the very root.”

“Inventions are not so much about knowledge itself, but about how much you make it your own. That is why people who don’t go to school often come up with great inventions. It takes a lot of research and a lot of effort before this can be put to use for the benefit of people around the world. I believe that inventions are born out of that effort. Inventions are the result of hard work.”

“I do it because it’s difficult. No one else will do it, and I do it because I can’t do it. I may be a fool, but without fools like me, nothing new would be born in the world. That is what makes life interesting, and that is what gives me meaning in life. If I can’t do it and collapse, it’s because I wasn’t strong enough, so I should just commit seppuku.”

All of these words have influenced me as I create my paintings.

トヨタ生産方式で絵画を造る

日本を代表する大企業のトヨタ自動車は、大変参考になる会社です。

トヨタを世界一の自動車会社に発展させた、トヨタ生産方式という考え方は、どの業種にも応用出来るものだとおもいます。特に全てのメーカー(画家も含めて)は、実践するべきです。

私の絵画生産の基本的な考えも、トヨタ式生産方式が根幹になっています。自動車を生産するのも、ウイスキーを生産するのも、絵画を生産するのも同じことです。

トヨタ生産方式は創業者の豊田佐吉と息子の豊田喜一郎によって、考えだされた生産方法です。この方法は、二つの考え方が中心になっているものです。

1、ニンベンのついた自働化

「異常がわかる、異常で止まる、異常で止める」

The famous person who was the leading figure in fully implementing the Toyota Production System in production sites after World War II was Taiichi Ohno.

What he said in his lecture was very informative, so I would like to share some excerpts with you.

The words of Taiichi Ohno

“As I just said, no matter how efficiently you increase the cost of producing something that doesn’t sell, what good is that doing to a company?

For example, if you had 10 subordinates who used to make 100 units, but recently their productivity has improved a little, they can now make 120. However, they can only sell 100 units.

So the most important thing is to make 100 units. Even if you think that by increasing efficiency you can make 120 units and therefore the price per unit must be considerably cheaper, this is a complete waste of time. Furthermore, if only 80 units are sold, then front-line supervisors need to think about how to make 80 units cheaply, otherwise the company will be poorer while everyone is working hard and making a profit.

They kept making things, thinking that they would sell by next month, and their efficiency also increased. Well, they were feeling good and were able to produce more and more, but then they started to run out of storage space. So they thought they would have to build a warehouse to store the goods.

Even when we went to work at the automobile company shortly after the war, whenever a part was ready on the production line, we would be told to take it immediately, to take it for transportation right away, because if we left it there, everyone’s morale would drop, so please bring it over as soon as it’s ready. Or, if it was materials, please bring it over and load it up. This strange way of thinking, which everyone thought would motivate them, continued for quite some time after the war.

As a result, the number of intermediate warehouses continues to increase, which means that warehousemen are needed here. Shelves also need to be made, which means that the products that were thought to be made cheaply on-site have to be put into the warehouse, and warehousemen are assigned to them. As the number of products and the variety increase, it becomes impossible to manage them all by one person, and then the computer company comes along and says, “If we install a computer, it will do everything properly and without any mistakes.” So, instead of the eight people we currently have, if we install a computer, one girl can do it all properly, and it will just bring the right thing to the right place when you press a button. This somehow makes things seem more convenient, and the computer company makes a profit.

So, even if you have made something so cheaply, wouldn’t it still cost money to add computers, build a warehouse, or hire warehousemen?

People need to think about why they have to charge more for something that the people on site have worked so hard to make cheaply.

The people on the front lines worked hard, efficiency improved, and they were able to produce a lot. If you can produce so much that it doesn’t sell, it just makes the price go up.

I think there are many aspects of the product that are priced higher within the company before it reaches the hands of actual customers.

If that’s the case, it would be better if they didn’t make them in the first place, so they wouldn’t have to build warehouses, and by the time they get to the warehouses they have to be transported by lift truck, which would require gasoline and wear out the tires, so in the end, aren’t they all making things that can’t be sold?

We will also introduce the words of Dr. Goldratt, who highly values ​​the Toyota Production System.

“What Ohno has done with production is challenge the most basic assumptions in production. For example, if you have expensive production equipment and you pay workers, it’s wasteful for them to just stand there doing nothing next to the equipment.

We believe this and do not doubt it. We do not even dare to think about it. This is because we have not reached the level of Mr. Ohno. He thought about this and said the following:

Whatever you want your workers to do, if it’s not needed right now, it’s far better for them to stand by the equipment doing nothing than to build it ahead of time.

This is the essence of the Toyota Production System. You don’t make things ahead of time, because that would disrupt the flow and cause backlogs. Flow is key.”

When I first learned about the Toyota Production System, it was like a bolt of lightning struck me. From then on, I sacrificed sleep to study Toyota Motor Corporation.

In this way, my work is the result of combining the painting techniques of Katsushika Hokusai and Velázquez with the Toyota Production System, and is completely different from the works of other artists.

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