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.

Hiseki Davey


Hiseki Davey Sensei is a direct student of the late Kobara Ranseki Sensei, the founder of Ranseki Sho Juku Japanese calligraphy. Kobara Sensei was, with over 50 years of training, widely regarded as one of the preeminent masters of shodo brush calligraphy in the world. 

Davey Sensei, is known throughout the world as the acclaimed author H. E. Davey, the creator of Brush Meditation, Living the Japanese Arts & Ways, The Japanese Way of the Artist, and other works. Davey Sensei can be commissioned to create distinctive works of calligraphic art similar to the one above for your home, office, or commercial use. He can be contacted at hedavey@aol.com or reached by telephone at 510-526-7518. 

In 1993, Davey Sensei, Director of the Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts, received the Shihan-Dai title from the Ranseki Sho Juku, which is the highest rank issued by this group. He is the only non-Japanese Shihan-Dai in the over 30-year history of this organization, which is affiliated with the Kokusai Shodo Bunka Koryu Kyokai, a worldwide Japanese calligraphy association.

In 1988, Davey Sensei sent his work to the annual International Japanese Calligraphy Exhibition in Urayasu, Japan. His calligraphy was selected, out of several thousand works of art, for exhibition at this event (which is sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education and the Kokusai Shodo Bunka Koryu Kyokai.) He was also presented with the Tokusen award at that year's exhibition--the first non-Japanese to receive this honor. In each of the following years, his calligraphy and painting has been shown at this exhibit, and received various awards, including Jun Taisho, or the "Associate Grand Prize," which was also a first for someone not of Japanese ancestry.

"H. E. Davey combines a remarkable technical facility in the Japanese art of the brush with a deep understanding of its spiritual profundities. His book offers a marvelous practical introduction to Japanese calligraphy as well as insights into the essence of this art. It is a unique and fascinating presentation of a little-known art of self-cultivation."
--Dave Lowry, author of Sword and Brush
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