Text: Ponte Ryūrui (品天龍涙) English editing: Rona Conti Yesterday, I found out that one of my rinsho (臨書, りんしょ, lit. “copying masterpieces) works submitted every month for examination purposes was printed in the monthly magazine of the All Japan Calligraphy Art and Literature Association (全日本書芸文化院, ぜんにほんしょげいぶんかいん, Zen Nihon Shogei Bunkain). You will surely understand how pleasantly surprised I was when I tell you that the association has easily over 20,000 members, and only 32 works were … [Read more...]
40th Anniversary Exhibition of All Japan Calligraphy Art and Literature Association, Part I.
All Japan Calligraphy Art and Literature Association (全日本書芸文化院, ぜんにほんしょげいぶんかいん, Zen Nihon Shogei Bunkain) was formed 61 years ago by Masters of the League of Asian Calligraphy Development (興亜書道連盟, こうあしょどうれんめい, Kōa Shodō Renmei), which was dismantled after World War II. Today, The All Japan Calligraphy and Literature Association, in short, referred to as Zenshogei (全書芸, ぜんしょげい, lit. “All [Japan] Calligraphy Art”), is one of the largest calligraphy groups in Japan, with a total of nearly 30,000 … [Read more...]
Kanji: 月
1. Meaning: month, moon 2. Readings: Kunyomi (訓読み): つき Onyomi (音読み): ガツ、 ゲツ Japanese names: おと、 がっ、 す、 ずき、 もり Chinese reading: yuè 3. Etymology 月 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 crescent moon. According to 說文解字 (shūo wén jiě zì, i.e. “Explaining Simple (Characters) and Analyzing Compound Characters”), by the philologist 許慎 (Xǔ Shèn, ca. 58 C.E. – ca. 147 C.E.), the sound of … [Read more...]
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