[My profile]
My pseudonym (gagō)
I acquire the qualification of the instructor in association of calligraphy(Shogei kōron-sha).
My occupation
An office worker
(I am in charge of duties about WEB.)
The opportunity that I made
I make this page of "the Japanese alphabet(i-ro-ha) for Calligraphy" for oneself while writing about my dog(kura-san) when I have begun to learn Calligraphy.
I think of my dog which died more than 16 years old in summer of 2014 and renewed a page.
The pictures of my dog places it in the Japanese page.
"TARA"of Yorkshire terrier became the member of my family in September, 2015.
He is 5-year-old male.

Please let me briefly explain about the writing instruments.

This is my worn-out tool.
I am ashamed of the introduction of my worn-out tool, but write it with such a tool.
A stone upon which water is poured and an inkstick is rubbed to produce ink, called inkstone.Brushes come in various sizes and qualities.
When I choose a slender writing brush when I write the cursive style and write the square style, I choose a bold writing brush.
We use the calligraphy paper.The paper has the thing that size and feel of a material are unique, and there are handmade high-quality paper and the cheap paper of the mass production.
But I think that the use of the tool is not decided by the difference in production intention of the good painter.

"The square style" is most commonly used to print well like newspapers and I think it corresponds to "Mincho typeface". "The semi cursive style"is to write a character with the strokes in the order,while leaving handwriting. The stroke order of "The cursive style"is easier than that of the semi cursive style.The following examples are characters of the same pronunciation"ro", but the number of times of the stroke order is different by a style.When the cursive style simplifies it more, it becomes the style of the hiragana letter. (please refer to this["i-ro-ha"letters].) Many kanjis of the same pronunciation have each the cursive style. From much the cursive style, I choose the suitable character, and I adjust the placement of the character and like that I write poetry.

The square style	The semi cursive style	The cursive style

I like writing Japanese poetry(Haiku,Tanka) by the cursive style.What design poetry by the cursive style is called a "Chirashi-Gaki".
Look at an example of "Chirashi-Gaki". This is a phrase not poetry,and it means "I look at a flower" in English. (Hana o nagame te-Japanese pronunciation.) The gray character expresses a letter of the cursive style which I chose, and the red character expresses a reading of by a Hiragana letter. This is attractive in an infinite variety of work being created by a character and a design of the layout which a good painter chooses.

This is my worn-out tool.