The Japanese calligrapher ... hose to spray water and write in Kanji characters on wet rice paper – a new technique for the ultra-conservative world of calligraphy. The Swiss art curator ...

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 ...

Japan also exerts enormous "soft power" though the borderless appeal of its anime, manga, film, and literature. Focus: The BA (major) in Japanese Studies gives you the linguistic and cultural fluency ...

Archaic forms of kanji that are difficult to decipher in ... also contribute to the creation of new styles and pictographs in calligraphy and designing as well, according to the research centers ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. Traditional Japanese calligraphy ink, referred to as sumi ink, comes in a solid form. It takes at least four years of production before these ink sticks can be sold ...

12, with works by eight Japanese and Korean artists ... Koshu employs a primeval form of kanji (kodai moji) as the foundation of expressive calligraphy that crosses the border between writing ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

An curved arrow pointing right. A handmade calligraphy brush, custom made for a master calligrapher, can cost over $1,000. At Hata Bunshindou each brush tip is made by a single artisan.

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.

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...