Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Japanese calligraphy

Index Japanese calligraphy

also called is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language. [1]

122 relations: Ashikaga Takauji, Asuka period, Ōbaku, Barakamon, Bhaisajyaguru, Broken Stone in Uji Bridge, Buddhism, Calligraphy, Capital of Japan, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese characters, Chinese language, Chinese poetry, Clerical script, Cursive script (East Asia), Daimyō, Daitoku-ji, Edo period, Eight Principles of Yong, Emperor Go-Daigo, Emperor Kanmu, Emperor Saga, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Empress Kōmyō, Ensō, Four Treasures of the Study, Fudepen, Fujiwara no Shunzei, Fujiwara no Sukemasa, Fujiwara no Teika, Fujiwara no Yukinari, Fukuda Chiyo-ni, Hōgen rebellion, Hōjō Tokiyori, Hōryū-ji, Heian period, Heian-kyō, Heijō-kyō, Heiji rebellion, Hiragana, Hitsuzendō, Hon'ami Kōetsu, Huaisu, Ikkyū, Ingen, Ink wash painting, Inkstick, Japan, Japanese aesthetics, Japanese language, ..., Japanese tea ceremony, Japanese writing system, Kamakura, Kamakura period, Kana, Kanji, Katakana, Kūkai, Kenchō-ji, Kitaro Nishida, Kokugaku, Kongō Jōdaranikyō, Konoe Iehiro, Konoe Nobutada, Kyoto, Li Si, List of calligraphers, Lists of National Treasures of Japan, Lotus Sutra, Man'yōgana, Mi Fu, Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo, Ming dynasty, Muromachi period, Musō Soseki, Mushin (mental state), Nagaoka-kyō, Nagasaki, Nara, Nara, Northern Wei, Ono no Michikaze, Oracle bone, Ouyang Xun, Performance calligraphy, Pictogram, Qin (state), Regular script, Rinzai school, Saichō, Sakai Hōitsu, Sakoku, Samurai, Sanpitsu, Sanseki, Seal script, Semi-cursive script, Shōgun, Shōkadō Shōjō, Six Dynasties, Small seal script, Song dynasty, Suzuri-bako, Syllabary, Tachibana no Hayanari, Taira clan, Tang dynasty, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Tokyo Gakugei University, University of Teacher Education Fukuoka, University of Tsukuba, Waka (poetry), Wang Xizhi, Washi, Wei Shuo, Wen Zhengming, Writing, Yan Zhenqing, Yosa Buson, Zen, Zhang Xu. Expand index (72 more) »

Ashikaga Takauji

was the founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ashikaga Takauji · See more »

Asuka period

The was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645), although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Asuka period · See more »

Ōbaku

The is one of several schools of Zen in Japanese Buddhism, in addition to Sōtō and Rinzai.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ōbaku · See more »

Barakamon

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satsuki Yoshino.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Barakamon · See more »

Bhaisajyaguru

Bhaiṣajyaguru, formally Bhaiṣajya-guru-vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja ("King of Medicine Master and Lapis Lazuli Light"), is the Buddha of healing and medicine in Mahāyāna Buddhism.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Bhaisajyaguru · See more »

Broken Stone in Uji Bridge

is the oldest stone inscription in Japan and the earliest example of Japanese calligraphy.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Broken Stone in Uji Bridge · See more »

Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Buddhism · See more »

Calligraphy

Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Calligraphy · See more »

Capital of Japan

The current de facto capital of Japan is Tokyo, with the seat of the Emperor, National Diet and many government organizations.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Capital of Japan · See more »

Chinese calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy is a form of aesthetically pleasing writing (calligraphy), or, the artistic expression of human language in a tangible form.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Chinese calligraphy · See more »

Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Chinese characters · See more »

Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Chinese language · See more »

Chinese poetry

Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Chinese poetry · See more »

Clerical script

The clerical script (Japanese: 隷書体, reishotai; Vietnamese: lệ thư), also formerly chancery script, is an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy which evolved from the Warring States period to the Qin dynasty, was dominant in the Han dynasty, and remained in use through the Wei-Jin periods.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Clerical script · See more »

Cursive script (East Asia)

Cursive script, often mistranslated as grass script, is a style of Chinese calligraphy.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Cursive script (East Asia) · See more »

Daimyō

The were powerful Japanese feudal lords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Daimyō · See more »

Daitoku-ji

is a Buddhist temple, one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Daitoku-ji · See more »

Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Edo period · See more »

Eight Principles of Yong

The Eight Principles of Yong (永字八法/えいじはっぽう, eiji happō; 영자팔법/永字八法, Yeongjapalbeop; Vietnamese: vĩnh tự bát pháp 永字八法) explain how to write eight common strokes in regular script which are found all in the one character, 永 ("forever", "permanence").

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Eight Principles of Yong · See more »

Emperor Go-Daigo

Emperor Go-Daigo (後醍醐天皇 Go-Daigo-tennō) (November 26, 1288 – September 19, 1339) was the 96th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-28.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Emperor Go-Daigo · See more »

Emperor Kanmu

was the 50th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-22.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Emperor Kanmu · See more »

Emperor Saga

was the 52nd emperor of Japan,Emperor Saga, Saganoyamanoe Imperial Mausoleum, Imperial Household Agency according to the traditional order of succession.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Emperor Saga · See more »

Emperor Taizong of Tang

Emperor Taizong of Tang (28January 598 10July 649), previously Prince of Qin, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Emperor Taizong of Tang · See more »

Empress Kōmyō

(701–760) was the Nara period consort of Japanese Emperor Shōmu (701–756).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Empress Kōmyō · See more »

Ensō

In Zen, is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ensō · See more »

Four Treasures of the Study

Four Treasures of the Study, Four Jewels of the Study or Four Friends of the Study is an expression used to denote the brush, ink, paper and ink stone used in Chinese and other East Asian calligraphic traditions.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Four Treasures of the Study · See more »

Fudepen

The, also known as "Brush Pen", is a cartridges-based writing instrument geared toward East-Asian calligraphy; in essence, an ink brush analogue to fountain pen.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Fudepen · See more »

Fujiwara no Shunzei

was a noted Japanese poet and nobleman, son of Fujiwara no Toshitada.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Fujiwara no Shunzei · See more »

Fujiwara no Sukemasa

was a Japanese noble, statesman, and renowned calligrapher of the middle Heian period.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Fujiwara no Sukemasa · See more »

Fujiwara no Teika

, better-known as Fujiwara no Teika"Sadaie" and "Teika" are both possible readings of 定家; "...there is the further problem, the rendition of the name in romanized form.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Fujiwara no Teika · See more »

Fujiwara no Yukinari

was a Japanese calligrapher (shodoka) during the Heian period.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Fujiwara no Yukinari · See more »

Fukuda Chiyo-ni

Fukuda Chiyo-ni (Kaga no Chiyo) (福田 千代尼; 1703 - 2 October 1775) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period, widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Fukuda Chiyo-ni · See more »

Hōgen rebellion

The was a short civil war fought in order to resolve a dispute about Japanese Imperial succession.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Hōgen rebellion · See more »

Hōjō Tokiyori

Hōjō Tokiyori (北条時頼, June 29, 1227 – December 24, 1263) was the fifth shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Hōjō Tokiyori · See more »

Hōryū-ji

is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Hōryū-ji · See more »

Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Heian period · See more »

Heian-kyō

Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Heian-kyō · See more »

Heijō-kyō

, was the capital city of Japan during most of the Nara period, from 710–40 and again from 745–84.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Heijō-kyō · See more »

Heiji rebellion

The Kitagawa, Hiroshi et al. (1975).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Heiji rebellion · See more »

Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Hiragana · See more »

Hitsuzendō

is believed by Zen Buddhists to be a method of achieving samādhi (Japanese: 三昧 sanmai), which is a unification with the highest reality.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Hitsuzendō · See more »

Hon'ami Kōetsu

Hon'ami Kōetsu (本阿弥 光悦; 1558 – 27 February 1637) was a Japanese craftsman, potter, lacquerer, and calligrapher, whose work is generally considered to have inspired the founding of the Rinpa school of painting.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Hon'ami Kōetsu · See more »

Huaisu

One of Huai Su's surviving works Huaisu (737–799), courtesy name Zangzhen (藏真), was a Buddhist monk and calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, famous for his cursive calligraphy.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Huaisu · See more »

Ikkyū

was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ikkyū · See more »

Ingen

Ingen Ryūki (1592–1673) was a poet, calligrapher, and monk of Linji Chan Buddhism from China.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ingen · See more »

Ink wash painting

Ink wash painting, also known as literati painting, is an East Asian type of brush painting of Chinese origin that uses black ink—the same as used in East Asian calligraphy—in various concentrations.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ink wash painting · See more »

Inkstick

Inksticks (Chinese: 墨; Japanese: 墨 Sumi; Korean: 먹 Meok) or Ink Cakes are a type of solid ink (India ink) used traditionally in several East Asian cultures for calligraphy and brush painting.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Inkstick · See more »

Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Japan · See more »

Japanese aesthetics

The modern study of Japanese aesthetics only started a little over two hundred years ago in the West.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Japanese aesthetics · See more »

Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Japanese language · See more »

Japanese tea ceremony

The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha (抹茶), powdered green tea.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Japanese tea ceremony · See more »

Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Japanese writing system · See more »

Kamakura

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kamakura · See more »

Kamakura period

The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shōgun, Minamoto no Yoritomo.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kamakura period · See more »

Kana

are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kana · See more »

Kanji

Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kanji · See more »

Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Katakana · See more »

Kūkai

Kūkai (空海), also known posthumously as, 774–835, was a Japanese Buddhist monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, and artist who founded the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kūkai · See more »

Kenchō-ji

Kenchō-ji (建長寺) is a Rinzai Zen temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, which ranks first among Kamakura's so-called Five Great Zen Temples (the Kamakura Gozan) and is the oldest Zen training monastery in Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kenchō-ji · See more »

Kitaro Nishida

was a prominent Japanese philosopher, founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kitaro Nishida · See more »

Kokugaku

Kokugaku (kyūjitai: 國學/shinjitai: 国学; literally national study) was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Tokugawa period.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kokugaku · See more »

Kongō Jōdaranikyō

is a Japanese sūtra of the Vajrayana school of Buddhism.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kongō Jōdaranikyō · See more »

Konoe Iehiro

, son of regent Motohiro, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Konoe Iehiro · See more »

Konoe Nobutada

was a Momoyama period Japanese courtier known as a poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Konoe Nobutada · See more »

Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Kyoto · See more »

Li Si

Li Si (280 BCSeptember or October 208 BC) was a Chinese politician of the Qin dynasty, well known Legalist writer and politician, and notable calligrapher.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Li Si · See more »

List of calligraphers

This is a list of calligraphers.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and List of calligraphers · See more »

Lists of National Treasures of Japan

The following articles list National Treasures of Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Lists of National Treasures of Japan · See more »

Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: सद्धर्मपुण्डरीक सूत्र, literally "Sūtra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma") is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which the Tiantai, Tendai, Cheontae, and Nichiren schools of Buddhism were established.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Lotus Sutra · See more »

Man'yōgana

is an ancient writing system that employs Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language, and was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Man'yōgana · See more »

Mi Fu

Mi Fu (also given as Mi Fei, 1051–1107)Barnhart: 373.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Mi Fu · See more »

Minamoto clan

was one of the surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Minamoto clan · See more »

Minamoto no Yoritomo

was the founder and the first shōgun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Minamoto no Yoritomo · See more »

Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ming dynasty · See more »

Muromachi period

The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Muromachi period · See more »

Musō Soseki

was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Musō Soseki · See more »

Mushin (mental state)

'Mushin' in Japanese and 'Wuxin' in Chinese (無心 "no mind") is a mental state.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Mushin (mental state) · See more »

Nagaoka-kyō

was the capital of Japan from 784 to 794.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Nagaoka-kyō · See more »

Nagasaki

() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Nagasaki · See more »

Nara, Nara

is the capital city of Nara Prefecture located in the Kansai region of Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Nara, Nara · See more »

Northern Wei

The Northern Wei or the Northern Wei Empire, also known as the Tuoba Wei (拓跋魏), Later Wei (後魏), or Yuan Wei (元魏), was a dynasty founded by the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei, which ruled northern China from 386 to 534 (de jure until 535), during the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Northern Wei · See more »

Ono no Michikaze

was a prominent Shodōka (Japanese calligrapher) who lived in the Heian period (794–1185).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ono no Michikaze · See more »

Oracle bone

Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron, which were used for pyromancy – a form of divination – in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Oracle bone · See more »

Ouyang Xun

Ouyang Xun (557–641), courtesy name Xinben (信本), was a Confucian scholar and calligrapher of the early Tang Dynasty.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Ouyang Xun · See more »

Performance calligraphy

Performance calligraphy (書道パフォーマンス) is a kind of Japanese calligraphy combining traditional calligraphy with J-pop music and dance.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Performance calligraphy · See more »

Pictogram

A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Pictogram · See more »

Qin (state)

Qin (Old Chinese: *) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Qin (state) · See more »

Regular script

Regular script (Hepburn: kaisho), also called 正楷, 真書 (zhēnshū), 楷體 (kǎitǐ) and 正書 (zhèngshū), is the newest of the Chinese script styles (appearing by the Cao Wei dynasty ca. 200 CE and maturing stylistically around the 7th century), hence most common in modern writings and publications (after the Ming and gothic styles, used exclusively in print).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Regular script · See more »

Rinzai school

The Rinzai school (Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: 临济宗 línjì zōng) is one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (with Sōtō and Ōbaku).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Rinzai school · See more »

Saichō

was a Japanese Buddhist monk credited with founding the Tendai school of Buddhism based on the Chinese Tiantai school he was exposed to during his trip to Tang China beginning in 804.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Saichō · See more »

Sakai Hōitsu

Sakai Hōitsu (酒井 抱一; August 1, 1761 – January 4, 1828) was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Sakai Hōitsu · See more »

Sakoku

was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, nearly all foreigners were barred from entering Japan, and common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country for a period of over 220 years.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Sakoku · See more »

Samurai

were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Samurai · See more »

Sanpitsu

The term Sanpitsu (三筆) or "three brushes" is used in Japanese to refer to a group of three famous Heian period calligraphers.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Sanpitsu · See more »

Sanseki

The term Sanseki (三跡) or "three traces" is used in Japanese to refer to a group of three famous Heian period calligraphers.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Sanseki · See more »

Seal script

Seal script is an ancient style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Seal script · See more »

Semi-cursive script

Semi-cursive script is a cursive style of Chinese characters.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Semi-cursive script · See more »

Shōgun

The was the military dictator of Japan during the period from 1185 to 1868 (with exceptions).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Shōgun · See more »

Shōkadō Shōjō

Shōkadō Shōjō (松花堂昭乗, 1584-1639) was an Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Shōkadō Shōjō · See more »

Six Dynasties

Six Dynasties (Chinese: 六朝; Pinyin: Liù Cháo; 220 or 222–589) is a collective term for six Chinese dynasties in China during the periods of the Three Kingdoms (220–280 AD), Jin dynasty (265–420), and Southern and Northern Dynasties (420–589).

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Six Dynasties · See more »

Small seal script

Small Seal Script (Chinese: 小篆, xiǎozhuàn), formerly romanized as Hsiao-chuan and also known as Seal Script, Lesser Seal Script and Qin Script (秦篆, Qínzhuàn), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Small seal script · See more »

Song dynasty

The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Song dynasty · See more »

Suzuri-bako

Suzuri-bako ("writing box") are a type of Japanese writing box.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Suzuri-bako · See more »

Syllabary

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Syllabary · See more »

Tachibana no Hayanari

was a Heian period Japanese government official, calligrapher, and member of the Tachibana family.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Tachibana no Hayanari · See more »

Taira clan

was a major Japanese clan of samurai.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Taira clan · See more »

Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Tang dynasty · See more »

Tokugawa Ieyasu

was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which effectively ruled Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Tokugawa Ieyasu · See more »

Tokugawa Yoshimune

was the eighth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication in 1745.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Tokugawa Yoshimune · See more »

Tokyo Gakugei University

Tokyo Gakugei University (東京学芸大学) or Gakudai (学大) and TGU, for short, is a national university in Koganei, Tokyo.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Tokyo Gakugei University · See more »

University of Teacher Education Fukuoka

(UTEF) is a national university in Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and University of Teacher Education Fukuoka · See more »

University of Tsukuba

, one of the oldest national universities (established by Japanese Government) and one of the most comprehensive research universities in Japan, is in the city of Tsukuba (known as Tsukuba Science City), Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region of Japan.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and University of Tsukuba · See more »

Waka (poetry)

is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Waka (poetry) · See more »

Wang Xizhi

Wang Xizhi (303361) was a Chinese writer and official who lived during the Jin Dynasty (265–420), best known for his mastery of Chinese calligraphy.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Wang Xizhi · See more »

Washi

is traditional Japanese paper.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Washi · See more »

Wei Shuo

Wei Shuo (272–349), courtesy name Mouyi (茂猗), sobriquet He'nan (和南), commonly addressed just as Lady Wei (衛夫人), was a Chinese calligrapher of Eastern Jin, who established consequential rules about the regular script.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Wei Shuo · See more »

Wen Zhengming

Wen Zhengming (November 28, 1470–1559), born Wen Bi, was a leading Ming dynasty painter, calligrapher, poet, and scholar.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Wen Zhengming · See more »

Writing

Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion with signs and symbols.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Writing · See more »

Yan Zhenqing

Yan Zhenqing (709–785) was a leading Chinese calligrapher and a loyal governor of the Tang Dynasty.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Yan Zhenqing · See more »

Yosa Buson

was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Yosa Buson · See more »

Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Zen · See more »

Zhang Xu

Zhang Xu (fl. 8th century), courtesy name Bogao (伯高), was a Chinese calligrapher and poet of the Tang Dynasty.

New!!: Japanese calligraphy and Zhang Xu · See more »

Redirects here:

Shodo, Shodoo, Shodō.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »