Learn Japanese Calligraphy as Moving Meditation

Learn Japanese Calligraphy as Moving Meditation
Click on the image above to order your copy of The Japanese Way of the Artist. Including extensive illustrations and an all-new introduction by the author, The Japanese Way of the Artist (Stone Bridge Press, September 2007) anthologizes three complete, out-of-print works by the Director of the Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts. With penetrating insight into the universe of Japanese spiritual, artistic, and martial traditions, H. E. Davey explores everything from karate to calligraphy, ikebana to tea, demonstrating how all traditional Japanese arts share the same spiritual goals: serenity, mind/body harmony, awareness, and a sense of connection to the universe.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Mu





The above photos are of Hiseki Davey Sensei's calligraphy of the Chinese character mu. Impossible to fully define, mu refers to the ultimate nature of reality or the absolute universe. It has been defined as "the void" or "nothingness."

Davey Sensei painted this on specially colored Japanese paper know as a shikishi. It is brushed in the abstract sosho script. It is presently in the collection of Kevin Heard. Click on any of the images to see a larger view.

Similar pieces of artwork can be commissioned for personal or commercial purposes. Davey Sensei, author of The Japanese Way of the Artist, can be reached at hedavey@aol.com.