Dragon Tracing and Painting

Invite Happiness Into Your Life With Dragons

by Satoru Sato

ISBN978-4-7631-3705-0 C0095

101 pages / July 2018 / 1,500 yen (w/o tax)

Tracing will heal your soul and brighten up your life. Japan’s first dragon coloring and tracing book will bring good fortune into your life.

Description

Activities such as the hand-copying of sutras and tracing of pictures of Buddha have existed since ancient times. We have felt that these activities were also a way to receive divine blessings. The same goes for tracing dragons. Tracing the lines that make up the dragon’s shape puts you in harmony with the dragon’s power.

 

Author Satoru Sato is responsible for the most ceiling paintings decorating shrines and temples produced by one person in all of Japan.

 

This book contains various styles of dragon drawings, ranging from classical to modern dragons pictured in space or around Tokyo Skytree, and just looking at them will jolt your spirit. Tracing one page with a calligraphy pen takes about 20 minutes, a short amount of time that can be considered powerful meditation time with a dragon.

 

There is more to this book than just tracing and painting, however. This book also explains:

 

◆What we want you to know about the true nature of dragons.

◆Why does riding on the back of a dragon increase your fortune?

◆Why are dragons depicted on the ceilings of shrines and temples?

 

From his experience as an active ceiling mural painter and a pupil of the late Seikan Kobayashi, the author is able to share with us through this book the rules of an unknown world and the power of tracing and painting.

From the table of contents

◎Dragons of the world researched by a ceiling mural painter

◎ Dragons possess energy flowing within, and energy used for protecting important things

◎Why does riding on the back of a dragon increase your fortune?

◎A mysterious prediction made by Seikan Kobayashi

◎Why are dragons depicted on the ceilings of shrines and temples?

◎ Introduction to Dragon Tracing: Each part of the dragon has energy flowing through it

◎ Put Dragon Tracing into practice: Which dragon’s energy flow would you like to connect with?

From the editor "Catty"

This is a new book that will turn you on to dragons. In this book, you can see a variety of epic dragon drawings, including classical dragons like those you’d see in a Japanese paintings, those of science fiction like dragons in the space which you’ve never seen before, dragons with angels, and dragons wrapped around Tokyo Skytree.

 

But this book isn’t just for looking:  tracing and coloring the dragons brings you great fortune. Reviewers of the book also expressed how much fun it was and how their lives started looking up.

 

As the editor of this book, I also gave it a shot, and experienced a number of good fortunes, including receiving an invitation to an art exhibition I’d been wanting to visit and finding an important necklace I’d lost weeks before, allowing me to fully realize the benefits of dragon tracing and painting. It’s really fun, so I recommend trying it out for yourself.

Author

Satoru Sato

Satoru Sato is an artist and ceiling mural painter born in 1977, who currently lives in Shizuoka, Japan. Since his teens, he studied under the bestselling author Seikan Kobayashi and was in charge of the illustrations of his books. He is responsible for the most ceiling paintings decorating shrines and temples produced by one person in all of Japan. His works include Hoanden’s ceiling mural at Enoshima Shrine in Kanagawa and a 64-quire*  ceiling mural at Eifukuji Temple in Shizuoka, which is the biggest in the Tokai area. (1 quire = usually 24 sheets of uniform-size paper, so the size of 64 quires would be 1,536 sheets.)

 

He has reduced many spectators to tears at art events in and outside of Japan with his performance that involves drawing a mural on a canvas the size of multiple tatami mats in just 5 minutes. His performance at France’s world heritage site, Grand Salon, in 2013 earned him a high reputation. 

 

He also holds personal sessions that involve determining a theme for each participant using his original physiognomy and by drawing gods, which through word of mouth have gained a following of about 20,000 people, or about 1,000 people yearly. He also travels around Japan holding seminars, receiving invitations from educational institutions, businesses, and regional establishments.