- 05/03/2010Kana (仮名) in Japanese means “syllabary”, therefore a writing system of whose symbols or characters have a purely phonetic nature,…
- 05/03/2010Flying White (飛白, kasuri) is not classified as one of the major styles, and there are a few reasons for…
- 05/03/2010Gyousho (行書, also known as walking or running style) was the last of five major styles to appear. It was…
- 05/03/2010Towards the end of the Han dynasty (漢朝, 206 B.C. – 220 C.E.) and first years of The Three Kingdoms…
- 05/03/2010It is extremely difficult to place the origin of cursive script (草書, sousho) on a timeline. I reckon no one…
- 05/03/2010Recent archeological discoveries of bamboo slips (木簡, mokkan) prove that reisho (隷書, clerical script, also known as official script) began…
- 05/03/2010The popularity of great seal script (大篆, daiten) was further enhanced by political unrest and domestic wars between kingdoms. After…
- 05/03/2010Great Seal script (大篆, daiten) in the broad sense of its definition includes oracle bone script (甲骨文, koukotsubun) and kinbun…
- 05/03/2010The origins of seal script (篆書, tensho) reach deep into the history of China; all the way to the end…
- 05/03/2010Before we dive into the vast world of core calligraphy styles in a strict sense, let me introduce you to…
