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.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The Japanese Way of the Artist

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson

All effective shodo must radiate ki, "life energy." It must have what Japanese shodo teachers refer to as "a strong bokki." Bokki is the ki in the ink, which flows into the paper via the artist's personal vitality. In this sense, shodo is an expression of the artist's ki, and serious shodo artists must discover this ki and how to express it.

Learn about ki and shodo by reading The Japanese Way of the Artist. This book can be ordered at http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Way-Artist-Living-Meditation/dp/1933330074/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294197726&sr=1-1
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