Takita Sakae

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Takita Sakae 滝田栄

たきた さかえ Born 1950





滝田栄、仏像を彫る
ISBN： 9784620318172

He is one of my favorite actors in Japan.
I remember way back in 1983 when he played Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 in the annual NHK drama.
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He was in India, practising meditation for two years, when the war of Irak started in 2003, and wanted to do something to stop the war.
He thought of Fudo Myo-O and started carving this one to show his feeling against the war.


He carved his first statue of Kannon when his mother died.
The statue has the gentle face of his mother.



Later when his father died, he carved a much bigger Kannon statue.

When his brother died young, only 55 years of age, Takita carved his first statue of Fudo Myo-O. He says it looks just like his beloved brother.


Now



In his studio in Nagano

He lives alone in the woods, his family comes visiting regularly.
八ヶ岳にある滝田の仏像彫刻の工房



His official website


http://www.takitasakae.jp/


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I recently saw him in a documentary about Enku, the famous carver.

Enku 円空 Master Carver


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夏の月滝田栄の林立す
natsu no tsuki Takita Sakae no hayashi tatsu

summer moon . . .
I stand in the forest
of Takita Sakae

Hitotsu Maguro 一鮪
http://www.koshinfu.com/007.html



. Tree and Forest in Haiku 　


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