Among the various calligraphic tools, the calligraphy brush is special to China. It represents one of the four treasures of study, which also include paper, ink and ink stone. Chinese calligraphy ...

When we imagine a painter in our mind’s eye, we might picture a person in Breton stripes delicately balancing a wooden palette in one hand ... a point. Brush pens can use any number of inks ...

As a young boy in Taiwan, Jerry Yang was forced to study calligraphy — writing Chinese characters with a brush. The practice ... tool with moral content. Not one character is repeated.” ...

Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting styles. When grouped together with the inkstone, inkstick ...

Unversed in Chinese characters, they used fortune tellers and almanacs to decide my name based on the ideal number ... I could be the one to do that work. I know now that what calligraphy is ...

Suiho Kitaya, a member of the Mainichi Shodo Exhibition screening committee, uses a huge brush to write a character on a giant canvas during the "New Year ultra calligraphy event" in Hiroshima's ...