ストーンレイク尚夏

Shoka  “Naoko” Stonelake

was born in Fukuoka, Japan.

Having grown up in Buddhist temple family, Japanese culture and arts have been always present throughout her life. 

Naturally, she was drawn to Japanese art and started Shodo practice in her early stage of her life. Her interest was cultivated while living with her grandmother who was practicing Japanese traditional art including calligraphy art,

and then further developed when Shoka moved to the US. Her appreciation of her own culture grew as she started living in foreign country. 

After Shoka trained as a teacher and instructor in Japan, she has operated a full Japanese immersion art program for youth and adult since 2010.​

Shoka has been certified as a calligraphy instructor from Bunka Shodo Japan since 2016. 

She has been pursuing a teaching certificate from the Japan Etegami Association in Tokyo and actively involves as a member of etegami tomonokai.  

In 2024, she has received a teaching certificate from Sogetsu Ikebana and she is a member of Ikebana International. 

In her free time, she enjoys yoga, fermented food making, wellness and mindfulness activities.​

About her name: Her birth name was "Naoko", and she kept her birth name for 26 years until she changed her name to Shoka as 

she needed to change her name to participate in the training to qualify as a monk of the Jodo sect in Kyoto Japan. ​

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北九州大学外国部学部卒業　

1996年渡米

カリフォルニア州立大学教育心理学修士号卒業

日米で教育とメンタルヘルス業務に携わった後子育てに集中

2010年アメリカオレゴン州ポートランで日本語プリスクール寺子屋創立

2014年〜2016年に日本で生活

2015年文化書道学会書道師範取得

2017年書道会和桜の会を設立　

​現在日本語アート教室寺子屋＆書道教室主宰

趣味は

ウェルネス全般,

発酵食、ヨガ、華道、菜園