On the second day of our adventure around London me and Alex (my partner) went to see the exhibit 'The Art of Horiyoshi iii'. Wanting to see more art while in London I figured Alex wouldn't put up too much of a fight about seeing a tattoo artists work and I was completely amazed. Kokoro means 'heart' in Japanese; it is the 'feeling', the 'inner meaning' that underpins the Japanese approach not only to art, but to Japanese life as a whole. Each silk painting is like a Japanese fairytale with its own little moral story.
Internationally renowned tattoo artist Horiyoshi III is a great supporter of traditional Japanese culture, history and craftsmanship but yet he embraced the modern western world, observed it, understood it and changed his art, evolving but keeping it Japanese; this is ultimately the power and essence of Kokoro. It is a spirit that knows no time or physical limits.
