Author: Ponte Ryūrui

06/07/2011

The traditional form of 円 is 圓, whose most ancient form is 員. The other form of 員 was surrounded…

02/07/2011

Not many people would give it a thought, but the stroke order (i.e. the order in which you write the…

30/06/2011

Kanji 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…

24/06/2011

Chinese 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…

18/06/2011

What all the calligraphy styles and schools set in various cultural realities have in common? How do we "read" the…

14/06/2011

Before we venture into the abyssal realm of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, we need to ask ourselves a question: what…

12/06/2011

It is a calligraphy of a character 雲, which means “a cloud” done in Cursive script

05/04/2011

This time we would like to invite you on a virtual tour to a seal carving exhibition that took place…