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Shodo
By Mari Yasuda
Shodo is Japanese art: writing kanji and kana letters with India ink and a calligraphy brush. Shodo can be seen at museums, art galleries and at shodo exhibitions.
Japanese students practice shodo in elementary school and junior high school. At first, practicing calligraphy is very difficult. But we start to enjoy it after half a year or so. We gain experience each year as our ability goes up. Soon, we want to write on bigger paper. A big work like this is called "jyofuku." "Jyo" means slender and "fuku" means something hanging, such as a scroll. So jyofuku is calligraphy written on a hanging scroll.
The tools of shodo are:
Calligraphy brush
There are many kinds of brushes, but the brush is selected according to the style of handwriting and the size of the letters.
Sumi Ink
The ink is black and called "bokuju" in Japanese.
Ink Stone
This is called "Suzuri" and is used to hold the ink.
Hanshi
The special white paper used to write calligraphy on.
Bunchin
A weight made from iron to hold the paper down.
Shodo has two steps. First, prepare the shitajiki and put the hanshi on the paper and fix it with the bunchin to keep it in place. Next, pour sumi ink onto the ink stone, and dip the calligraphy brush into it. Write letters on the hanshi. This is shodo!
Recently, there are fewer opportunities to see traditional Japanese style rooms, but in the old days, a good hanging scroll was always attached to the tokonoma, a special area in the house to display Japanese arts.
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SHO-HO ( Shodo Styles )
KANJI SHODO
Classic-style poems and prose written in kanji through five distinctive shodo styles - Ten, Rei, Kai, Gyou, and Sou. Each style has a different aesthetic idea and calligraphic methodology. Today’s Kanji Shodo blends tradition with modern expressions.
Tensho is the collective name for the earlier scripts. It includes all kobun(ancient script),koukotsu moji(letters written on animal bones and tortoise carapaces),chubun(ancient letters developed in China), andsekkobun (letters written on stones and rocks). There are two kinds oftensho – “daiten” and “shoten.”Kobun and Chubunare often considereddaiten. Shoten is more advanced, simplified form of characters derived from daiten. AfterReisho (see below) became the dominant style of calligraphy, tensho, specifically shoten, came to be reserved for special purposes such as official seals.
Reisho emerged as a simplification of characters. Essentially the characters were made easier to write with a brush. Circles became boxes, the number of strokes were decreased, etc. There are two kinds of Reisho – one that's suited for shorthand writing, while another is more ornamental and artistic. The most recognizable characteristic of this style is the extreme exaggeration of the rise and fall (thinness and thickness) of the strokes, made easy with a brush.Reisho, literally means "scribe's script," is very formal and blocky, and therefore easily read.
Kaisho born as an abbreviated form ofReisho, Kaisho(standard script) became the stylistic and aesthetic standard for the classical Chinese calligraphy that is still used today. Its main characteristic is the non-cursive style.
Gyosho semi-cursive calligraphy style derived fromKaisho. UnlikeSosho (see below),Gyosho is similar toKaisho in its appearance, enabling those who know Kaisho to read it.
Sosho a cursive and abbreviated form of the seal script, Sosholiterally means "grass script," and was invented as an informal, simplified way of writing complex Chinese characters. Because the individual strokes are connected in a flowing line, Soshois fast to write and elegant to look at, yet hard to read without knowing how each letter is abbreviated.
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