Name: A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda
Released: 2017-10-21

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S1 · E3 — A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda

S1:E3 · A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda

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A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Oct 21, 2017

Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda makes ultra-detailed drawings with the fine tip of a single pen. As a resident artist at a museum in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, he toiled for 3 years on one large drawing, painstakingly completing a small area measuring only several centimeters square each day. NHK documented his slow, daily progress in the final weeks leading up to the drawing's completion. Ikeda was spurred to make his drawing by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Starting in a state of psychic pain, he drew nothing but debris at first, but eventually went on to depict a great tree with branches in full bloom. The finished work has elicited a deep emotional response in large numbers of viewers.

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NHK WORLD PRIME

TV Series

201749m9.0

Documentary

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A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Oct 21, 2017

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