The style of this calligraphy brilliantly contrasts with its meaning: “to become silent and pray peacefully” (黙而祈寧), depicting complexity of the relation
Read MoreI visited the 59th calligraphy exhibition of 書道研究 無心会 (しょどうけんきゅうむしんかい, shodō kenkyū mushin kai, i.e. Mushinkai Calligraphy Research Organisation). 無心会 is
Read MoreAt times I am asked to submit works for calligraphy exhibitions in Japan. There are various events that take place here and there, and some of them are
Read MoreVast majority of young people in Japan has troubles with remembering how to reconstruct given Hand-written Chinese character from their memory, and
Read MoreMaster Ishitobi Hakkō did not simply copy this masterpiece. He enhanced it with his own interpretation. It is not the exact copying skills that show
Read MoreCalligraphy is a “heart imagery”, which offers us magical powers to paint with words of the soul. It is a poem within a poem, a painting within a painting,
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