The Calligraphy Set is located in Nara Heartland, the central sub-region in the northern part of the Yamato province. Specifically it's in Kofukuji Temple, which is east of Koriyama Castle ...

Once a practical way to transcribe, calligraphy has evolved into a fine art. As the practice we recognize today spread across East Asia, countries like China, Japan, and Korea developed their own ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A handmade calligraphy brush, custom made for a master calligrapher, can cost over $1,000. At Hata Bunshindou each brush tip is made by a single artisan.

Chinese characters evolved from pictures and signs, and the Chinese art of calligraphy developed naturally from its unique writing system. Every dynasty had its great calligraphers, whose ...

On March 20, 2025, Global Humanities lecturer Jason Brown invited visual artist and calligrapher Nikhat Izhar Qureshi to his HUM 204 classroom for an Arabic calligraphy workshop. Earlier in the term, ...