Shodo, the Japanese calligraphy art, is an interesting part of Japanese culture that blends art with language. The ...

In Japan, calligraphy is more than just writing—it’s an art form that requires patience, focus, and respect for tradition.

It features three Japanese calligraphy artists ... that crosses the border between writing and painting. “The art of ancient Chinese characters is not about replicating shapes, but rather ...

“It’s almost a typewriter style of calligraphy,” notes the show’s curator, Frank Feltens, the museum’s curator of Japanese art. The texts may be unreadable to most visitors, but what’s ...

Ahn Jung-geun is best known for his dramatic assassination of Japan's first prime minister in 1909 at a railway station.

Like Hack, he said this can be enjoyed even without an art history background. “It’s easy to see calligraphy written in Japanese and think, ‘I don’t read Japanese, so I can’t engage with ...

When Japanese calligraphy artist Chiyo Sanada paints ... “She loved my calligraphy. I always made art for her and she would hang it in her room." Sanada moved to America in 2000 after meeting ...