(* In this web site, names of Japanese people follow the local custom,
viz. 'Given name + Family name' order. )

Amayadori is a Japanese word for 'rain refuge'. In my mildly rainy country, this word carries something more than a nearby shelter, something relieving, snug and a bit poetic. I gave this name to my web gallery, remembering my courting phrase to my wife, 'Let's pass the rain in some art gallery. It's cool.'

Here I treat you to a choice of colour-pencil drawings and proses from two of my albums. By them, I have been trying to resurrect the spirit of Japanese Ukiyoe, or pictures of the floating world. Working on, I keep in mind a maxim attributed to Japan's greatest dramatist, Chikamatsu Monzaemon that '(theatrical) Fun must be sought between skin and flesh; between fake and real'

The sights along my lonesome journey: my first album privately published in 1987.

Pensive saunter: my second album published in May 2001.