- 05/03/2010In Chinese calligraphy we can distinguish five core styles: Seal script (篆書, tensho, further divided into great seal andsmall seal…
- 05/03/2010The history of Japanese calligraphy begins with importing the Chinese writing system, namely kanji (漢字, which in Japanese means “characters…
- 05/03/2010The origin of Chinese writing is debatable and scientists cannot settle down agreeing to a concrete point in time. We…
- 05/03/2010The commonly-known word “calligraphy” has Greek etymology, and it derives from κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing". However, in…
