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. It's a delicate process that can take over a ...

Hiroko Fay said it may be just one drop of blood coursing through her veins that ties her to the Japanese Imperial family of hereditary monarchs. Fay is the granddaughter of powerful steel ...

Most of us think of calligraphy as an elegant form of writing, grand for wedding invitations and formal announcements, but just writing. “Calligraphic Abstraction,” at the Seattle Asian Art Museum ...

Art in Japan often comes from a philosophical standpoint, where the process is equally important as the result. This is particularly true when it comes to the Japanese calligraphy art of shodo. On the ...

From October 5 through February 16, 2025, the museum's Yamato-kan gallery will showcase more than two dozen works by the New York-based artist whose thought-provoking canvases interfuses abstract ...

In your first interactions with Japanese culture and kanji, you may well come across the ancient art of shodo, Japanese calligraphy. Watching calligraphy masters can be almost hypnotic, with their ...

In this exhibition that celebrates the evolution of Japanese writing, the ancient Chinese aristocrat and calligraphy master Wang Xizhi (303-361) is credited for refining handwriting styles — in ...

Nijiya Kurota grips a calligraphy brush above a sheet of rice paper. The brush itself is being held dead straight, just as an expert who has spent years learning the art of "shodo" -- Japanese ...