“Air Shodo” is a free online application that gives you shodo (asian calligraphy) experience! It is like “Online Calligraphy Wallpaper Maker” I recently posted, but from my experience, Air Shodo is easier to…

  This is Sybilla brand Japanese wrapping cloth called a “furoshiki.” Furoshiki have been used in Japan through the ages. They are used mainly for wrapping gifts, but you can…

  This is a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth called a “furoshiki.” Furoshiki have been used in Japan through the ages. They are used mainly for wrapping gifts, but you can…

  This is a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth called a “furoshiki.” Furoshiki have been used in Japan through the ages. They are used mainly for wrapping gifts, but you can…

    This is a Japanese traditional indigo dyeing wrapping cloth called a “furoshiki.” Furoshiki have been used in Japan through the ages. They are used mainly for wrapping gifts,…

  Do you know anything about Japanese calligraphy? I have posted articles about calligraphy several times before (http://www.japanstyle.info/?p=7242, http://www.japanstyle.info/?p=5598), I had the opportunity to meet a calligraphy teacher and talk…

  Let me share an inspirational and soothing video work employing calligraphy and suiboku-ga, Japanese style ink and wash painting. A Japanese digital produce and IT consulting company, Team Lab…

There is an interesting calligraphy brush that appears in newspapers lately. It is a slip-on fingertip calligraphy brush “Popcorn Yubi-fude” developed by calligraphy supply maker Boku-undo Co., based in the…

The title says “fishing port” but actually it’s about Japanese calligraphy work.   At the Shimizu fishing port market, in Shizuoka, primary schoolers’ calligraphy works were exhibited.  

    This is a book of sumi drawings by a Japanese artist, Hidekichi Shigemoto.  

    If you have an iPhone and want to learn how to draw kanji, you should check this application. “Crazy Shodo” is a Japanese calligraphy game makes you draw…