Japanese Calligraphy
I sure did enjoy the calligraphy workshop that Ms. Lee and the other ladies gave to us today. You did a great job painting your characters with authentic materials such as horse hair brushes, special paper and ink. Did you know that the ink for Japanese calligraphy is not in liquid form? It begins as a solid stick, a compressed mixture of vegetable soot and glue that the calligrapher grinds with some water on a special ink stone to produce liquid ink. I also thought it was interesting that there are 52 ‘letters’ in the Japanese ‘alphabet’ which the ladies used to help you write your name. To find out more about Japanese calligraphy and language, click here. Let me know your thoughts about the workshop today. What did you learn, observe or like? Did you notice that the characters were written from right to left instead of left to right? It is the opposite of how we write the English language.
3 Replies to “Japanese Calligraphy”
It was fun and interesting learning Japanese calligraphy.
It was fun because it was sort of like painting! My favourite Japanese character was summer. It was also really cool writing my name in Japanese because it looks really nice, and I think I’m going to use it as a book mark.
I thought it was very cool to learn about Japanese calligraphy. I liked it because it is something new,I enjoyed experiencing what japan’s way of calligraphy. My favorite Japanese character was winter,it looked simple but effective to me. I think I am going punch a hole in it and attach it to a key chain than put it on my backpack.I hope we do fun activities like this in the future.
I had a lot of fun. I can’t wait to take them home to show to my parents. My favourite character was summer. I hope we can do something fun like that again someday.