Kana-Moji

Today, I introduce "kana-moji".
Kana-moji is really Japanese style of calligraphy, I think. In Heian Period, this font was used by women. They used this font on their dairies or love letters so it is very feminine font.
This is my work of kana-moji.

 

 

I wrote waka by kana-moji. I think it is difficult to read because it is very old style and the fonts is like a kind of cursive writing in English. This waka has beautiful meaning so I like it so much.
Writing kana-moji is very difficult but it is so beautiful style.

 

 

Meaning of this waka: "May the wind uo above shut the Heavenly gate That the Aery Maiden's dance we may here longer "

Reisho

Today I introduce about one of shodo font "reisho". I practiced it for three years when I was a high school student. This font is really unique style. I think you may see this font on advertising display, book cover and so on.

This is my reisho work. Also there were some types in reisho. This font is called "reikihi(礼器碑）".

One of a typical type of reisho. The biggest charateristic of this is "hataku". Hataku is sweep part. When we write this font we must use hataku. It is very dificult to write so I practiced only the sweep part for three months. However this sweep makes this font more beautiful. I really love to write reisho!

Introduction

Hi! I'm Kanako. I'll write about calligraphy (shodo).  I've practiced shodo for 10 years. When I was a high school student, I belonged shodo club so I practiced it almost every day. However I don't practice it at all now so I try to make some worrks and post them. Also I introduce about the works. There are a lot of types of character. I practiced "reisho" when I was a high school student but I want to try a lot of types of character this time.

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I'll refer to this blog. She is a calligrapher, artist and experienced teacher. She works as a freelance artist and a professional calligrapher in Europe and Japan. She posts some articles which were about her lessons and art works.