Brush Writing - Softcover

Kuiseko, R.

 
9780870118623: Brush Writing

Synopsis

A modern approach to the ancient art of Sino-Japanese calligraphy. This volume contains 150 step-by-step illustrations and photographs to take the reader from the basic strokes to the complex. For many a deep and lasting interest in Japanese culture, its people and its language, begins with a fascination for beautifully drawn characters produced by a master calligrapher. Compared with the squarish, regular representation of Chinese characters reproduced in books, newspapers, and magazines by modern printing techniques, the appealing brush strokes of a

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About the Author


RYOKUSHU KUISEKO was born in the city of Nagoya in 1934. Soon after graduating as an English major from Doshisha Women's University in Kyoto, she married a renowned calligrapher. From 1963 she began studying shodo under her husband while assisting at his calligraphy school. The author has held a special calligraphy class for non-Japanese students for almost twenty years.

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9781568365749: Brush Writing: Calligraphy Techniques for Beginners

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ISBN 10:  1568365748 ISBN 13:  9781568365749
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc, 2016
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