Friday, April 25, 2008

Profound Art

This time, I picked up a topic of this, 'Art'. Especially, I want to focus on calligraphy. This art is one of the most famous arts in Japan. Actually, I practiced calligraphy more than for 5years when I was an elementary school student, and then I learned and experienced a lot of things to be important in my life, so I want to introduce this story through my experience.
Precisely, calligraphy is a nice art which shows spiritual profound and beauty. In Japan, in addition to kanji of ideogram(character), people formed an unique letter art through combining with kana of ideogram invented in Japan. If you dip a wriing brush into the india ink, you can adjust thickness and hue of letters freely. Therefore the spirit or idea of writers can be described. This calligraphy requires us to have moral sense strongly and should have the sense of equity. When I began to practice calligraphy, I was very naughty, and I couldn't understand what was a moral sense very much. However, as I learned calligraphy, I started to realize that having only half-baked feeling didn't complete, and then I decided to be sincere for my life. I'm very grateful to the teacher who taught me about moral sense. I never remember these words which she always said to me without seeing these works. I'll tell these words.












1, "Thing which belongs to individual is sad and beautiful. That's sound and lead in own life."
2,"If you continue to try to be a hero in order to show only your good parts, you'll expose your faults someday."
3,"Doing what you are told to do and doing away with yourself isn't earnest. Bearing what you've done is really earnest. Expression can be so."
4,"If you have effusive feeling, form will be crumbled very soon.You should have perspective."

I always make it a rule to remember these words from my teacher. These words are really right. I'm feeling now very happy to encounter this art and from now on I want to keep it important. I wish I want everyone to do so.


http://syo-kitayama.jugem.jp/?eid=317

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablodavidflores/132467256/

http://kakku.livedoor.biz/

1 comments:

visual gonthros said...

A very nice topic.

Are the calligraphy prints you show ones that you did? Or your teacher? Are they your photos? What are the links? Why aren't they hot-linked?