Japanese Calligraphy (shodo 書道)


Background

For information about Japanse styles in calligraphy see Japanese Calligrapy Style.

Japanese Texts

Transcriptions and translations courtesy of Daniel von Brighoff unless otherwise noted.

Japanese characters in the following pages are coded in Unicode and use fonts such as MingLiU, Arial Unicode MS, Verdana, etc. for display. If you can see the following characters for gyōsho (semicursive script) then you are enabled for CJK display: 行 書.

Access and Metadata

Clicking each calligrapher's entry below will access their work(s) complete with metadata and translations/transcriptions when available. Metadata for each piece in the collection uses the Visual Resources Association's metadata scheme. The Type element in this implementation of the VRA scheme uses Library of Congress genre terms.

In all cases the metadata describes the original work, not the digital reproduction.

Collections

Calligraphers

Click on the links below to see examples of each calligrapher's work.

 Daiji 太慈
 Goun
 Hakusan 白山
 Hekijo 碧城
 Hoyo Yudo
 Hyougan 冰岩
 Shimizu Kōshō 清水公照 (1911-1999)
 Mochizuki Syura 望月秋羅
 Seiko
 Soheki 竹壁
 Unidentified Artists

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