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The Cobalt Snow Fuji: Wings of Prayer(Sou Akou)
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The Cobalt Snow Fuji: Wings of Prayer

Sou Akou

Price ¥275,000 (JPY) incl. tax

¥250,000 before tax

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Artist
Sou Akou
Canvas size
F10
Image size
520mm × 444mm
Framed size
729mm × 654mm
Medium
Giclée print on canvas

“The Cobalt Snow Fuji: Wings of Prayer” is a poetic ink painting imbued with serenity and spiritual depth. Rendered solely in blue and white, Mount Fuji emerges as a symbol beyond reality—an embodiment of eternal stillness. Its snow-clad form evokes the aesthetics of wabi-sabi, embracing silence and impermanence.

Against this solemn backdrop, a lone eagle soars—a fleeting yet unwavering expression of life’s will. Though small in form, each wingbeat resonates with awakening and resolve. In the stillness of the immovable Fuji and the motion of the flying eagle, a profound dialogue unfolds: stillness and movement, eternity and the ephemeral.

In this silent realm, one may begin to hear the unspoken voice of life itself.

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The Cobalt Snow Fuji: Wings of Prayer About the artist
About the artist

About the artist

Sou Akou

Sou Akou was born in Jilin Province, China, in 1960 and now lives in Fukuoka, Japan. A member of the China Artists Association, he studied under the renowned Nihonga painter Matazo Kayama in 1987. In 1988 he moved to Japan as a visiting scholar at Fukuoka University of Education. He founded the Sou Akou Chinese Ink Painting Association in 1990, renamed the Sou Akou Ink Painting Academy in 2003, and has taught for over 30 years, mentoring around 3,000 students. In 2005 he received the UN-NGO World Academy Grand Prize.

In 2022 the Sou Akou International Art Exchange Center was established in Saikai City, Nagasaki. In 2023 he completed Eternal Fuji, a 9.2-metre-wide ink painting accompanied by a 30-minute original composition by Tetsuya Komuro.

His work fuses traditional Chinese and Japanese techniques with a modern expressionist style, forging a distinctive voice rooted in classical aesthetics.

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