“Help me. I am having an argument with my Japanese teacher.” A friend of mine named Jochen who just started to take Japanese lessons wrote to me one day shivering in a rage. He was practicing Hiragana, or Japanese characters, when his teacher told him that he must learn the correct stroke order. But he…
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At 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
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Vast majority of young people in Japan has troubles with remembering how to reconstruct given Hand-written Chinese character from their memory, and
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Not many people would give it a thought, but the stroke order (i.e. the order in which you write the lines of each kanji) is more important than it may seem
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