Kanji: 車
12/03/2012we find a definition of 車, stating that it is a cart equipped with a seat(s) (human pulled carriage or…
Kanji: 七
08/03/2012the symbolic meaning of the character 七, describing it as one of the sacred numbers (聖数, pinyin: shèngshù), which are…
Nine Sons of The Dragon King
06/03/2012the most renowned Asian dragon ink painting – The Nine Dragons Scroll (九龍圖卷, pinyin: Jiǔ long tú juǎn). Chen Rong…
Kanji: 耳
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…
Logic Behind The Magic – Brush Techniques, Part III (a).
28/02/2012the way in which the brush is controlled by the arm, wrist and finger, allowing the calligrapher to write a…
Shifty Characters
23/02/2012A given character written in each calligraphy script may have (and usually does) different forms and stroke order, though the…
Magnificent Ink Giants
21/02/2012To give you some comparisons, it takes me approximately 12-15 hours to prepare 0.5 litres of ink, and I use…
心弾めば、筆踊る： 書道 研究会にて
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、[...]
Logic Behind The Magic – Brush Techniques, Part II (b).
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…
Logic Behind The Magic – Brush Techniques, Part II (a)
14/02/2012In the pair grip method, the brush axis is held between the thumb, and the index finger merges with the…
