06/07/2011The traditional form of 円 is 圓, whose most ancient form is 員. The other form of 員 was surrounded…
02/07/2011Not many people would give it a thought, but the stroke order (i.e. the order in which you write the…
30/06/2011Kanji 雨 consist of three compounds that all add to its pictographic nature. The top part 一 represents the heavens…
26/06/2011右 belongs to the 会意文字 (かいいもじ, kaii moji, i.e. characters that are a combination of two or more pictographs, or characters…
24/06/2011Chinese and Japanese calligraphy is created with a brush, on a white sheet of paper that could be seen as…
22/06/2011一 belongs to the 指事文字 (shiji moji, i.e. characters expressing simple abstract concept) group of characters. One theory says that…
18/06/2011What all the calligraphy styles and schools set in various cultural realities have in common? How do we "read" the…
14/06/2011Before we venture into the abyssal realm of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, we need to ask ourselves a question: what…
12/06/2011It is a calligraphy of a character 雲, which means “a cloud” done in Cursive script
05/04/2011This time we would like to invite you on a virtual tour to a seal carving exhibition that took place…
