- 05/03/2010A new brush, with the exception of sabaki fude (さばき筆), has its hairs glued together in the form of a…
- 05/03/2010There are two major brush making methods. One results in a type of brush we can commonly buy today, and…
- 05/03/2010In Japan, it is said that brush is to be chosen according to a rule of four virtues. These are:…
- 05/03/2010Calligraphy Brushes come in different sizes. The main categorization is numerical from 1 to 10. Brush of a sizing number…
- 05/03/2010There are three main types of brushes: soft, hard and mixed. Mixed brushes, as the name itself suggests, are those…
- 05/03/2010The brush (筆, fude) is the most important out of the four treasures of the study (文房四宝, bunbou shihou). It…
- 05/03/2010There are many tools that calligraphers use (penholders, brush pots, ink boxes, desk mats, paperweights, seals and seal boxes, raw…
- 05/03/2010Nushu (or josho in Japanese; 女書, lit. woman’s writing) is a very peculiar script, and it is so due to…
- 05/03/2010The history of avant-garde calligraphy (前衛書道, zenei shodou) begins before World War II, although its raw idea was pursued only…
- 05/03/2010Bokuseki (墨蹟, “traces of ink”) is a calligraphy or abstract “ink painting” created by Zen Buddhist monks entranced in a…
