Japanese Calligraphy

Japanese Calligraphy is called also Shodo. It is a name that is based in a Chinese way and have around seven syllable and it is one of the most popular fine art of Japan.It has this type of name because sho means calligraphy. This type of art is a brilliant type of art to write beautiful. This work usually is made by a bamboo brush, ink and rice paper.  It gives you nice harmony and grace. It is a beautiful type of art trough it simplicity work. It is influenced from the Japanese wabi wabi as a main principle.

It is a very different calligraphy from the others , like the forms and the lines , the way the way they do them. They make a  balance between each point to a line and also the blank space.

They usually make them as a poem based on Chinese while they use Japanese calligraphy. Now a day this calligraphy had expended.

This art is mostly important about the sense of how you apply it not the value of the brush. The value and elegance of the lines that they apply shows how good the work is. In this type of art each line and symbol has a meaning , so he create his own something.

The work usually will transmit a type of sucsess, light , love, pleasure, creativity and any thing that makes a person happy.

This usually we can find them in a class of fighting arts, ceremony ect.. There are also some traditional calligraphy that transfer l be little words. They usually will be written on a white paper which represent emptiness and a black sings  so it will be like a Yin and Yang [man and woman] 

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