/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。
