The Master's Brush
Meet Masako Inkyo, master of Japanese calligraphy, in a film directed by Carole Ryave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWVkQSRsXcE&feature=player_embedded
To learn more about Japanese calligraphy as art and meditation, pick up a copy of The Japanese Way of the Artist by H. E. Davey.
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.
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Kobara Ranseki Sensei, founder of the Ranseki Sho Juku system of shodo
An illustration from The Japanese Way of the Artist
Shodo in sosho script from The Japanese Way of the Artist
Kobara Ranseki Sensei's painting and calligraphy of an Asian coin
H. E Davey's calligraphy of mu, "nothingness"
A bonfire and haiku poem from The Japanese Way of the Artist
"Do," the Way of the universe, in three scripts from The Japanese Way of the Artist
Mushin, "no mind," from The Japanese Way of the Artist
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- Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts
- The Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts was established in 1981. Since then, it has been offering classes in traditional Japanese systems of yoga and meditation, healing arts, martial arts, and fine arts.
Discover the World of Japanese Calligraphy and Fine Arts
The three works anthologized here are essential to understanding the spiritual, meditative, and physical basis of all classical Japanese creative and martial arts. Living the Japanese Arts & Ways covers key concepts—like wabi and “stillness in motion”—while the other two books show the reader how to use brush calligraphy (shodo) and flower arranging (ikebana) to achieve mind-body unification. In the Michi series, H. E. Davey explores the mind/body connection that lies at the heart of traditional Japanese arts and culture. Mr. Davey is Director of the Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Click on the above image to order your book today.