It is already February and I am going to look back at the events of 2023 and write about some of my ambitions for 2024. Photographic edition of 2023. Every month we send our calligraphy to Nihon Shuji Gakkai for a competition , and a particularly well-crafted work is photographed in the magazine. selected for …
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Looking back on the first half of 2022
Half of 2022 has passed. I’m going to write a blog about “happy things” that happened in the last half year in Waran Mizukuki-kai♪ Promotion test in March There are 2 times promotion test in a year at Nihon- shuji-gakkai (in March and August) . If the head of the class recognized that you have …
Struggle to make works for the Kakizome-exhibition
Around November every year, you will receive a text for the next KAKIZOME exhibition. Each person decide which model will challenge and practice. For the exhibition held in the latter half of February, it is usually finished in January. The Kakizome-exhibition once a year is an opportunity to write big letters on big paper with …
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Origin of the home exist in yourself.
The phrase of the tekst of the 行書（Gyosho-style) for adults in July is 家之本在身 “I e no moto wa mi ni aru ” ( Origin of the home exist in yourself). This is an excerpt from Mencius’s “Minpon Setsu”. ( … perhaps ). This book is based on the claim that “those who control the nation …
The lesson in April
Unfortunately, lock down is going on still in April. So special lesson style of WARAN MIXUKUKI-KAI also same as last month that one student come to the classroom for lessons, and the rest take the lessons on Skype. I miss normal style of the lesson in the room with all ・・・ Fortunately, almost all of my …