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Shotei Ibata (井幡 松亭, Born: 1935) is a Japanese calligrapher and performance artist living in Kyoto, Japan. He is perhaps best known for his public demonstrations of Japanese calligraphy using a huge (up to 6 feet long) brush. He is also notable for his work, "to move calligraphy deeper into the modern world of art."
Japanese calligraphy (書道, shodō), also called shūji (習字), is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language. Written Japanese was originally based on Chinese characters only , but the advent of the hiragana and katakana Japanese syllabaries resulted in intrinsically Japanese calligraphy styles.
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Bokujinkai members participated in a major debate that permeated early postwar Japanese calligraphy: the value of moji-sei (文字性, essence of the written character) in calligraphy. At the time, some calligraphers argued that as long as the formal qualities of calligraphic brushwork were visible, there was no actual necessity to write ...
These modifications set the foundation of Japanese-style calligraphy (Wayō 和様, as opposed to Chinese-style calligraphy or Karayō 唐様), which was later refined by other two masters, Fujiwara no Sukemasa and Fujiwara no Yukinari. Wayō was accredited and practiced, as a pure Japanese art form, until the mid-19th century.
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Her mother, Yasuko Kanazawa, had studied calligraphy under Taiun Yanagida, another notable calligraphist. [2] When Shōko was five years old, Yasuko opened a calligraphy school at her home in Ōta, Tokyo where she began teaching her daughter calligraphy as well. [2] The school, opened for children in their neighborhood, was to help Shōko make ...