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 ...

The Lotus Sutra (chapters 20-23) shows an unusual variation in the thickness of the lines in an attempt to write Chinese script that mimics the fluidity of Sanskrit. The 12th-century hand scroll is on ...

Kana let women express themselves freely and was used to write the world’s first novel – then it was wiped out. Meet the master calligrapher keeping the script alive Anyone who has ever fired off a ...

Calligraphy is an art defined by movement and rhythm, which also contains the language of Japanese literature and philosophy, explain the authors of this lavishly illustrated volume.""It is a script ...

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 ...

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 ...