Nowadays, most of people use pencils, ballpoints, or pen to write letters and other documents. Nevertheless, the art of calligraphy (shodo, 書道) that an ink-dipped brush is used artistically to write Chinese characters, hiragana and katakara, still remains an important part of Japanese traditional culture. HdB held a Japanese calligraphy seminar on 30th May 2015, which was intended to introduce… Read more →