Start small, says Kazuko Kano, a master calligrapher and director of Japanese calligraphic arts at Seichou Karate. “First I teach basic strokes, simple Chinese characters,” says Kano, who also does ...

In a message sent to the Chunichi Shimbun’s readers’ forum, a 43-year-old woman from Gifu Prefecture raised questions about her left-handed son who doesn’t like his school’s Japanese calligraphy class ...

As a teenager, Kaoru Akagawa couldn’t read her Japanese grandmother’s letters, but she put it down to her unclear handwriting. Over a decade later, Kaoru realized her grandmother hadn’t been a poor ...

I find myself daydreaming about writing next week’s word, and that first contact the brush has with the paper A while ago, I was given a gift voucher for a craft lesson, which I decided to use for ...

In an immersive and transporting new exhibition, three key areas of Japanese art are brought together and praised Japanese art has a notably complicated relationship with perfection. The cultural ...

“I just go with the moment. And that becomes art,” she said. Instead, she sits quietly, feels the earth under her feet, breathes in the air, and lets inspiration come naturally to her. From there she ...