Author: Ponte Ryūrui

  • Dragon Calligraphy

    Calligraphy works: 龍 (りゅう, ryū), i.e.”dragon”

    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…
  • Figure 1 Kanji Etymology Jin

    Kanji: 人

    11/07/2012
    Shu shen (許慎, pinyin: Xǔ Shèn, ca. 58 C.E. – ca. 147 C.E.), the meaning of the character 人 was…
  • Figure 1 Symphony Of Ink Pii

    Symphony of Ink, Part II

    25/06/2012
    The work itself is mesmerizing, a brilliant ink application. The dry strokes, so called “kasure” (掠れ, かすれ) in Japanese, ought…
  • Figure 1 Kanji Etymology Shin

    Kanji: 森

    20/06/2012
    森 follows a concept of three pictographs of a tree (木, き, ki) combined in one character, and it emphasises…
  • Figure 1 Wizards Of Ink Wang Xizhi Part 4

    Wizards of Ink: 王羲之 (Wang Xizhi, 303 – 361), Part IV

    18/06/2012
    A total of 21 copies of Wang Xizhi works survived. All of them were created during the Tang dynasty by…
  • Figure 1 Kanji Etymology Jou

    Kanji: 上

    14/06/2012
    the character 上 originally meant “the higher part (or place)”, and it was represented by two horizontal lines. In later…
  • Figure 1 Climbing The Moon Tree Part 2 F

    Climbing the Moon Tree, Part 2.

    12/06/2012
    Continuing 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.…
  • Figure 1 Climbing The Moon Tree P1 Filtered 1

    Climbing the Moon Tree, Part 1

    05/06/2012
    The name chosen by Konoe Iehiro was Hankeidou, which literally means “climbing the wisteria tree”. According to an old Chinese…
  • Figure 1 Hairy Thugs.jpg

    Hairy Thugs

    29/05/2012
    The Hairy Thugs gang was founded long ago, back in early 30’s. As you can see in the historical photo,…
  • Figure 1 Kanji Etymology Shou

    Kanji: 小

    24/05/2012
    Xiao Xu Ben a revision of Shuowen Jiezi written by the Late Han dynasty scholar Xu Kai, supports the above…