Images: New Documentary Film about Calligrapher Kanazawa Shōko and Living with Down Syndrome

Kanazawa Shōko and her mother Yasuko with director Miyazawa Masaaki at an event to mark the completion of the film Tomo ni ikiru: Shoka Kanazawa Shōko. © nippon.com

Shōko looks out from the balcony of her new home. (© Masterworks)

Kanazawa Yasuko stands in front of Shōko’s “tear-stained Heart Sutra” calligraphy, at left. (© Masterworks)

Doing calligraphy in the prayer hall at the temple Ryōunji. (© Masterworks)

A piece of Shōko’s calligraphy at Kenninji temple in Kyoto, next to Tawaraya Sōtatsu’s famous painting of the Wind and Thunder Gods, a national treasure. (Photo courtesy of Kenninji)

Shōko and her mother offer prayers before a calligraphy session in the prayer hall at Ryōunji, decorated with the “world’s biggest” Heart Sutra, in Shōko’s calligraphy. (© Masterworks)