“In terms of striving for a beauty of form, colour and balance, it is similar to western calligraphy,” says Takeda. “It is also possible to write the letter A beautifully.” But Japanese ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

When Bryan sees his daughter Alice practicing Japanese calligraphy with a brush and ink, he is struck by how outdated it all seems... When do you need to use a pen nowadays, let alone a brush?!

When she was a kid, she loved drawing Japanese characters so much that she begged her parents to let her take calligraphy lessons. Tomoko has been away from calligraphy during her early adulthood.

KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture--Japanese calligrapher Keiichi Sato is ... he has an easy tip for writing neat characters: Arrange letters inside squares so they balance nicely and make full ...

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

After some time, this has been answered as another post has arisen on the page clarifying everything which reads, “This is to ...

Come and discover the great beauty of modern Japan, from the traditional to the contemporary. Experience hands-on training in Japanese calligraphy or learn what makes Japanese video games a dominant ...

The electron beam projects an entire letter on the phosphor ... in his 1967 report “Calligraphy for Computers”. Although Hershey only implemented a subset of Japanese characters as a ...

Although the foundation of Shinoda's artworks was based on traditional Japanese calligraphy, she began exploring Western abstract expressionism through ink in the postwar years. She insisted on ...