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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...