26/07/2012龍 (りゅう, ryū), i.e.”dragon”. The treasures used were a soft mountain goat brush (羊毛筆) with a long and thin bristle…
11/07/2012Shu shen (許慎, pinyin: Xǔ Shèn, ca. 58 C.E. – ca. 147 C.E.), the meaning of the character 人 was…
25/06/2012The work itself is mesmerizing, a brilliant ink application. The dry strokes, so called “kasure” (掠れ, かすれ) in Japanese, ought…
20/06/2012森 follows a concept of three pictographs of a tree (木, き, ki) combined in one character, and it emphasises…
18/06/2012A total of 21 copies of Wang Xizhi works survived. All of them were created during the Tang dynasty by…
14/06/2012the character 上 originally meant “the higher part (or place)”, and it was represented by two horizontal lines. In later…
12/06/2012Continuing the story of the Hankeido (桂堂攀, はんけいどう, Hankeidō) workshop, the construction of maki fude (巻筆, まきふで) is most unusual.…- 05/06/2012The name chosen by Konoe Iehiro was Hankeidou, which literally means “climbing the wisteria tree”. According to an old Chinese…
29/05/2012The Hairy Thugs gang was founded long ago, back in early 30’s. As you can see in the historical photo,…
24/05/2012Xiao Xu Ben a revision of Shuowen Jiezi written by the Late Han dynasty scholar Xu Kai, supports the above…
