24/12/2011校 consists of two main radicals, which are 木 (き, ki, i.e. “wood”) and 交 (こう, kō, i.e. “mingle”, “mixing”).…
22/12/2011Small calligraphy requires true mastery of the brush to be powerful, for the lines to come alive and heat up…
19/12/2011Completely immersed in studying rinsho. It is a great sensation, like entering a deep surreal dream or a plane in…
17/12/2011To fully understand the meaning of the character 左, one should combine it with the one of the character 右…
14/12/2011As with everything in life, one’s first impression is crucial. You will spend hours working together with a brush that…
13/12/2011the 口 radical in characters such as 古, 右, 可, 名, 各, 吾, 吉, etc., is in fact a pictograph of a ritual vessel or…
09/12/2011A calligraphy brush is not simply a tool used for writing. It is a warp gate to freedom of mind,…
06/12/2011Wáng Xīzhī, like many calligraphers, was absent minded, and when completely immersed in his studies, he tended to forget himself.…
03/12/2011五 belongs to the 仮借文字 (かしゃもじ, kashamoji, i.e. rebus (phonetic loan) characters; or in other words, characters that were borrowed…
01/12/2011In Western terms, Wáng Xīzhī is to Chinese calligraphy as Michelangelo is to sculpture or Shakespeare to literature. Although none…
