Moriya Kishaba

喜舎場 盛也

A member of Wakatake Art (Okinawa). His obsession with letters has continued since he was a child. When his work, which he had been creating secretly in his room, was introduced at the 2001 exhibition, it immediately attracted attention from outside the prefecture and even from abroad. There are only a few pieces that have been filled in to the end, and most of them have stopped in the middle. After that, he began to draw letters not only at home, but also during his creative activities, and these works were drawn vertically for some reason. For the past 12 years, he has been drawing colorful bells and stars instead of Chinese characters, and for the past 8 years, he has been drawing small dots. For the last eight years, he has been absorbed in drawing small dots. It is as if he is enjoying the process itself. His works have been repeatedly introduced in Japan and abroad, and were published in the Complete Works of Japanese Art (Shogakukan, 2016).