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.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

The Kanji Calligraphy of Davey Sensei




The images above are of an example of Hiseki Davey's award-winning kanji calligraphy. 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.

Kanji are the Chinese characters used in Japan, and they often amount to abstract drawings or pictograms. In the artwork above, Davey Sensei combined calligraphy using gyosho and sosho scripts. Gyosho is a semi-cursive form of writing, and sosho is a fully cursive and abstract version of Chinese characters. (Left click with your mouse to zoom in on each image.)

Generally speaking, the brush writing states that we should believe in, and have confidence in, the Spirit of the Universe. It relates to Shin-shin-toitsu-do, the art of Japanese yoga and meditation. Davey Sensei is also the author of Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation.

This unique and very large example of Davey Sensei's art appeared in the important Sankei newspaper's annual exhibition of calligraphy in Japan. Of the massive number of entrants, only a relatively small number of pieces of art are chosen to appear in this prestigious exhibition.

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.
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