/Shape of Coumarine/
香りの輪郭


sensory experience event
visual & scroll work


Chuhicha x Sanga Incense,
Kyoto, 2025

Shape of Coumarine begins with a scent.
It's a sensory tea experience that explores the structure of scent through coumarine — 
a compound often associated with the aroma of sakura leaves.

In the context of Japanese tea gatherings, the hanging scroll holds a central presence — 
not merely as a visual element, but as a quiet axis that shapes the atmosphere of the space.

Responding to this role, the presented work is created using sakura-leaf chuhicha as both pigment and material.
The paper carries traces of the tea itself — in its color, texture, and uneven surface.

Rather than representing scent directly, the works attempt to imagine its form —
how it gathers, disperses, and lingers.

Between tasting and seeing,
the experience opens a space to encounter aroma differently —
not as something fixed, but as something that can be sensed, shaped, and quietly reinterpreted.

/about the project/

香りの輪郭は、
クマリンという一つの香りを手がかりに、その輪郭を探る茶会体験です。
茶会において掛軸は、空間を静かに支える中心的な存在でもあります。

本作では、桜葉の虫秘茶を顔料と素材として用い、
香りの痕跡を紙の中に留めました。

香りを描くのではなく、
その広がりや余韻を辿ること—
味わうことと見ることのあいだで、
香りのかたちを探る試みです。

I don’t define myself as a painter.


Working with tea as pigment,

the process unfolds through concentration, sedimentation, drying, and layers.


What remains is both a trace of time

and a form of scent.


Between control and letting go,

something begins to take shape

/closing note/

私は自分を画家だとは定義していません。


茶を顔料として扱いながら、

濃度、沈殿、乾燥、層といったプロセスの中で、

かたちはゆっくりと現れていきます。


残るのは、時間の痕跡であると同時に、

私が感じ取る香りのかたちでもあります。


コントロールと手放すことのあいだで、

かたちは立ち上がっていきます。