{"id":600,"date":"2021-05-12T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T08:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aikishimoto.com\/en\/?page_id=600"},"modified":"2022-09-19T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:29:45","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aikishimoto.com\/en\/biography","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ai Kishimoto<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Calligraphy Artist \/ Performer
K2inovation Co. Ltd. CEO \/ SINSHO Association Representative Director<\/p>\r\n

Born in 1982 in Kyoto, Japan. Currently living in Tokyo.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0In 2002, she began working as a sales rep. for a Kimono fabric and design store.\u00a0 Wanting to show pure gratitude towards the customers, she came up with the idea of writing \u201cthank-you letters\u201d by hand using a brush pen.\u00a0 This simple action touched the hearts of many of her customers, and she quickly became the top sales rep in 6 months.\u00a0 Thereafter, in order to fully understand her own feelings and to express them outwards, she innovated her original calligraphy style called \u201cSINSHO\u201d, which means \u201cCalligraphy of Heart\u201d.\u00a0 She started her own company in 2008 and provided her artwork to more than 20,000 customers world-wide in the past 13 years.\u00a0 With the hope of helping others express their feelings and live their own way, she also started providing \u201cSINSHO\u201d Seminars.<\/p>\r\n

In 2013, she established \u201cSINSHO Association\u201d to expand the SINSHO method nationwide as a self-expression tool, focusing on training other instructors online.\u00a0In 2018, she expanded her activities overseas in earnest and devotion to the production of calligraphy artwork using her own body as a canvas. \u00a0Through her performance, she received praises from the media such as \u201cher appearance of writing her works is novel and beautiful,\u201d and “unique and exciting view of the world” and have attracted a great deal of attention and offers from all over the world.<\/p>\r\nHer honest and unadorned personality attracts wide range of fans, as well as collaboration requests from artists and musicians from all over the globe.\u00a0In her private life, she is a wife to a cheerful husband and a mother of two children.\u00a0 She loves watching her children’s videos in between her work and her favorite food is Japanese sweets.<\/p>\r\n

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2011.07<\/td>\r\nOpening act for \u201cFukushima Kawamata-machi Shamo Festiva<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2011.08<\/td>\r\nWoman Dream Plan: Presentation<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2012.04<\/td>\r\nCraftsman Dream Plan Presentation: Large scale stage performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2012.09<\/td>\r\nRock band \u201cOkan\u201d: Collaborative live performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2013.08<\/td>\r\nWoman Dream Plan Presentation: Opening act stage performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2014.04<\/td>\r\nICHIRYU: 5th Anniversary Party stage performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2016.11<\/td>\r\nKeikyu Department store COTONOWA: Large scale calligraphy instructor and performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2017.05<\/td>\r\nMicrosoft JAPAN: \u201cSurface\u201d New product press release event<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2017.07<\/td>\r\nMicrosoft JAPAN: Employee general meeting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2018.06<\/td>\r\nRoyal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas: Jewelry Show appearance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2018.11<\/td>\r\nHotel Sansui: 100th Anniversary Party live performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2019.01<\/td>\r\nShopping mall Ario: Live performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2019.01<\/td>\r\nKasumigaura-city: Coming-of-age ceremony live performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2019.11<\/td>\r\nTrastic.F: Collaborative live performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2019.12<\/td>\r\nWorld of Dance Las Vegas: Guest stage performance appearance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2020.10<\/td>\r\nCellist \u201cMARIKO\u201d: Music Video appearance and performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2020.12<\/td>\r\nCellist \u201cMARIKO\u201d: Solo live appearance and performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2021.7<\/td>\r\nBe-JAPON 20th Anniversary Performance<\/td>\r\n
2022.3<\/td>\r\nJapan heair Collection KINOSHITA GAIEN EAS STREET Performance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n
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