Author: Ponte Ryūrui

  • Figure 1 kanji etymology sha

    12/03/2012
    we find a definition of 車, stating that it is a cart equipped with a seat(s) (human pulled carriage or…
  • Figure 1 kanji etymology shichi

    08/03/2012
    the symbolic meaning of the character 七, describing it as one of the sacred numbers (聖数, pinyin: shèngshù), which are…
  • Figure 1 nine sons of the dragon king filtered

    06/03/2012
    the most renowned Asian dragon ink painting – The Nine Dragons Scroll (九龍圖卷, pinyin: Jiǔ long tú juǎn). Chen Rong…
  • Figure 1 kanji etymology jii

    01/03/2012
    耳 belongs to the 象形文字 (しょうけいもじ, shōkeimoji, i.e. set of characters of pictographic origin). It is a pictograph of a…
  • Figure 1 logic behind the magic brush techniques piiia

    28/02/2012
    the way in which the brush is controlled by the arm, wrist and finger, allowing the calligrapher to write a…
  • Figure 1 shifty characters

    23/02/2012
    A given character written in each calligraphy script may have (and usually does) different forms and stroke order, though the…
  • Figure 1 magnificent ink giants

    21/02/2012
    To give you some comparisons, it takes me approximately 12-15 hours to prepare 0.5 litres of ink, and I use…
  • Figure 4 when the mind soars the brush dances

    18/02/2012
    書道は、プライドや目標、競争心といったものなくても栄えるものである。書道は、世俗的なものを否定し、非現実的なものを賞賛することで上達する。自分のやってきたことが報われる時は、とても気分がいいものだ。ただし、[...]
  • Figure 1 logic behind the magic brush techniques pii b 1

    16/02/2012
    単包法 (たんほうほう, tanhō hō）, where the ring finger and the small finger are adjacent to the inner side of the…
  • Figure 1 logic behind the magic brush techniques pii a

    14/02/2012
    In the pair grip method, the brush axis is held between the thumb, and the index finger merges with the…