Nihongo Space Presents
Kakizome hours 2024
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Nihongo Space presents New Year's Kakizome Meeting

Program: Lunch time 12:40-13:20

  1. 12:40 Instruction
  2. 12:45 Kakizome starts.
  3. 13:10 Appreciation: comments on calligraphy works
  4. 13:15 Commemorative photo and clean up
  5. 13:20 Closing

The origin of Kakizome

Originally, it was a ceremony held at the Imperial Court, but since the Edo period, it has spread to the common people as well. The term "first calligraphy" first appeared in "Hanahikusa" (1636), a haikai treatise written by Nonoguchi Ryuho, a haiku poet in Kyoto in the early Edo period. It is said that if the flame rises high enough, one's handwriting will improve.

Resources

  1. Kakizome Instuction:
  2. Kakizome template set: pdf
  3. How to handle with Shuji Tool Box:
  4. Kakizome Samples: [link]
  5. Japanese Calligraphy Experience Book
  6. Shodo Japan site
  7. Shuji no kiso (The basics of Japanese Calligraphy; MEXT)
  8. Shuji Club Top
    shuji club
  9. QR code of this page
    kakizome 2024