06/11/2016Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who, in July of 1940, through extraordinary measures and under seemingly impossible circumstances, selflessly…
23/02/2016Neigetsu is a Japanese Calligraphic Designer and Artist, born in Tokyo, Japan in 1982. She began learning Japanese calligraphy at…
25/12/2015A Beyond Calligraphy reader and fellow artist wrote to me asking a simple question. “How do I price my artwork?”…
18/11/2015Nara, the ancient capital of Japan, seems worlds away from Tokyo and even Kyoto, especially in the bleak winter January…
02/10/2015What is the meaning of the color red in various cultures? What comes to your mind first? Red as celebratory…
24/07/2015Is the Emperor of Japan mocking the West? When the Imperial family appears at events wearing formal Western wear, does…
15/07/2015If Claude Monet ever imagined that his 1876 painting “La Japonaise” (his wife Camille in a “Kimono”) would be called…
05/06/2015All artists need to become skilled in accepting the many ways of rejection, from form letters to “we had so…- 24/03/2015The telephone call I received in Japanese while living in Japan seemed mysterious. I thought I understood what was being…
17/02/2015How do a female car stunt driver and a contemporary calligraphy artist collaborate to make magic in just over a…
