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Sugawara no Michizane

Client:

Yomiuri Newspaper

Description:

Sugawara no Michizane was a scholar, poet, and politician who worked on the Japanese foreign policies with Chinese dynasty. He’s now worshiped as a god of education in Fukuoka.

The article was more about his foreign policies than him being a poet or scholar. I added a map of Japan and China as a reflection on the pond–AD Mori-san did like it and later I gifted him this original drawing when I visited his office in Osaka!