“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 ...

You’ll learn what it means and how it’s pronounced. To Apps for learning Japanese letters, please click here.

When Bryan sees his daughter Alice practicing Japanese calligraphy with a brush and ink, he is struck by how outdated it all seems...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?!

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, ...

Sora Shodo started learning shodo, which is Japanese calligraphy, when she was 6 years old. She was inspired by her father ...

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.

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 ...

A Japanese artist is celebrating Shohei Ohtani’s historic 50-50 milestone with a unique piece of art inspired by their ...

Experience hands-on training in Japanese calligraphy or learn what makes Japanese video games a dominant force in the global market. Our language classes cover all social situations from informal to ...

Guest: Richard Wolff is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor at the New School in New York. He is the host of the weekly program, ...