Shimamoto, samurai, has elaborated his particular way of making art after the Second World War, after seeing the shreds of human flesh torn by bombing, after seeing towns and cities reduced to piles of rubble, after seeing the ancient Japanese ideals collapse, after seeing the industries rebuilt under strict American control.
The artist had a typically oriental education which identifies in the "KI" the concept of the fundamental energies of the universe, of which nature and the human mind belong, in a continuous exchange through the "vital breath" and "the vital energy".
Human mind, physical body and nature interpenetrate each other in a micro and macrocosm, through a continuous exchange of energies.